What do polyester leisure suits have to do with hi-fi cables, why are people returning to cotton underwear, and most importantly how could anyone wear such an ugly suit?
Category: Hi-Fi Industry Commentary
The state of the industry
A Creative Demo – Part 2
In part 1, we laid out a strategy for auditioning multiple tonearms and cartridges on both a Galibier Eiger prototype and our customer’s turntable (from another manufacturer). In this post, we finalize how we adapted the customer’s existing armboard to work correctly with his mis-specified Reed 2A tonearm. Mis-specified tonearm? Strong words, I know.
A Creative Demo
We’re remounting a Reed 2P tonearm for a good customer of ours. The ‘table is from another manufacturer and the individual who mounted it apparently didn’t understand the Reed’s many quirks which I describe in part-2. I can’t begin to tell you how many $30k to $60K turntable mounts I’ve had to correct – mounts …
Platter Conversion Time
The last of the Summer updates – adapting a first generation Gavia platter to TPI© / Carbon.
Guitar Amps vs. HiFi Amps
I’ve been thinking about guitar amplifiers lately, and their relationship to hi-fi amplifiers. The common “knowledge” is that they’re entirely different – with a guitar amplifier being a tone producer (even a “clean” jazz guitar amplifier) and a hi-fi amplifier being tone reproducer. Well, it’s not so simple …
Are You Cheating Yourself?
If you’ve spoken with me over the past fifteen years or so, we’ve had this conversation – what a musical playback system means to you, and whether you’ve fallen into the trap of configuring a system that limits your musical enjoyment. Steve Guttenberg covers this in his “The Audiophiliac” YouTube video.
Oily Stuff
I had a conversation with a friend in the industry who challenged the premise of Galibier’s on-site setup model.
We Won’t Get Fooled Again
How many cable lifters does it take to “fix” a bad amplifier? By the time people come to Galibier, they’ve been ’round and ’round the high end audio game. Many are on the verge of checking out of this wonderful hobby. This snip from The Marx Brothers’ movie “A Day at the Races” sums …
Audio Design, Guitars, and Retail Therapy
All too frequently, succumbing to “retail therapy” is a sign that something else is wrong. This behavior can creep into every area of our lives – not just our role as audio consumer. This can spill over into audio design as well, as the designer tries to either spend his way out of a design …
What’s With all of the Bad Demo Music?
The poor selection of demo music in the majority of the rooms at audio shows has always been a sore point with me and my circle of associates. There are many pleasant exceptions, but for the most part, the music in play is something I’d never sit through at a friend’s house. Apart from heavy …