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Audio News for April 1, 2016
Onkyo Has AVRs With Custom Integration in Mind – The three RZ Series receivers expected next month (from $799 to $1299) have features making installation and integration with control systems easy for audiophiles and custom installation crews. Later this year they will have 9.2, and 11.2 channel RZ network receivers, and the PR-RZ5100 network pre-processor. All but the lowest-level unit are THX Select2 Plus certified and decode Dolby Atmos and DTS:X surround formats. Appreciation for Beauty of Classical Music Dying – Most of the music around us in no longer classical – the world is filled with digitized voices and instruments, lip-syncing so-called “performers” and entertainers who are more interested in making a political statement than making great music. For a few, there is nothing more beautiful than classical music. Listening to it can cause one to breathe more slowly, one’s heart rate to drop, and the stress in your life seems to float away. Some are brought to tears by the shear beauty of the sounds created by exceptionally talented musicians. More people should take the time to listen to and appreciate the great classical works of art. Request for Reader Feedback on Hi-Res Benefits – Secrets of Home […]
Home Page for March 2015
For March 2015 we are offering one item for a lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION reader: The $699 Oppo PM-2 planar magnetic headphones, which use the same driver and technological breakthrus as the $1100 model PM-1, including a seven-layer diaphragm and double-sided spiraling coils. These reduced-weight headphones are a distillation of Oppo’s acoustic and industrial design features into a more affordable price point. To be eligible, you must register this month on our simple form. More details on the Editorial Page, plus the name of the winner of our February drawing for the 51-CD set.
Editorial for September 2012
Register Here to be considered as one of the seven AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who will be receiving one of the eight-CD box sets of the Complete Glazunov Symphonies and Concertos from Warner Classical, conducted by José Serebrier and featuring soloists such as Rachel Barton Pine. Marc Chisson and Alexander Romanovsky. Our review of this set without equal is here. Please register on our simple form page to be eligible. The seven lucky winners will be listed here in early October. The winners of the 8-CD set of the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas performed by H.J. Lim on EMI Classics—our drawing last month—are: Scott Colebank, Prairie Village KS & Leonard Ray, Southgate MI. Congratulations to both! [audaud-hr] EDITORIAL AUDIOPHILE AUDITION began in 1985 as a weekly national radio series hosted by John Sunier, which aired for 13 1/2 years on up to 200 public radio and commercial stations coast to coast. In September 1998 its web site for programming information was expanded to the present Internet publication. September 2012 is our 162nd issue, and features improved navigation and enhanced appearance using Word Press. All disc reviews (151 for August!) are added thru the month as they are written and received, usually […]
Editorial for November 2011
To be one of the ten lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers receiving the 11-SACD set PentaTone – The First 10 Years all you need to do is register using our simple non-intrusive email-protected form. Here are just some of the selections on the set, with PentaTone’s leading artists: TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings; Souvenir de Florence; Romeo & Juliet Ov.; DVORAK: New World Sym.; Romance for Violin & Orch.; Russian Violin Concertos; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas; SCHMITT: Early Symphonies and Ch. Music; MOZART: Piano Concertos; CHOPIN: The 2 Piano Concertos; SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto; GORDON GETTY: Orchestral Music; BRUCKNER: Sym. No. 7; Bonus disc with 70 min. of classical surround sound, plus test tones & effects. The ten winners will be announced early in our December issue. (Very few registrants are filling out our few fields re: # of computers, technologies, percentages of different genres in your library. We ask little personal information, but without those details we cannot select you for a possible winner of a particular genre of recordings or computer peripheral.) Here are the five winners of the iWow 3D Audio Enhancement Adaptor—our October giveaway: Gary Pahler, Louisville KY; Eduardo Bolanos, El Paso TX; Gilbert Gaynor, Santa Barbara CA; Charles Scasserra, Princeton […]
Editorial for October 2010
Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 Our October drawing/giveaway is for two copies of a fabulous limited-edition 15-CD boxed set from the Bach Collegium Japan on the BIS label from Qualiton Distributors. The collection contains: C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerti with Hidemi Suzuki; Bach: Goldberg Variations with Masaaki Suzuki; Ahle: Selected Vocal Music; Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik and Seven Last Words featuring Yoshikazu Mera; Vivaldi: Recorder Concerti with Dan Laurin; Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri; Handel: Messiah; Bach/Zelenka/Kuhnau: Magnificat (four different settings); Monteverdi: Vespers; Bach Secular Cantatas Vol. 1 with Carolyn Sampson. Go Here to Register on our site this month in order to be selected as one of the two lucky winners of this collection, who will be listed here next month. The six lucky winners of the pair of Mobile Fidelity hybrid SACDs of The Band and Ray Charles – our September giveaway – are: Jeff Edwards, Chesterfield VA; Jeffrey Rosen, Los Angeles CA; Paul Casey, Chester VA; Brian Lewis, Glenview IL; Jeff Davies, Lynnwood WA; & Ralph A. Mazzeo Jr., Port Chester NY. GUEST EDITORIAL The MP3 Player is Dead… Long Live the MP3 Player Yes, the MP3 player really is dead, which probably makes it one of the shortest-lived […]
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