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When designing that home theater you’ve always dreamed off, the first place you have to start is the placement of the television – everything starts there.
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“Man, what is going on? This time of night you’re calling Merry to do a session?” said a somewhat aggravated Curtis Amy, a jazz saxophonist who had worked as musical director for Ray Charles.
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The debate concerning the differences between solid state and vacuum tube amplifiers are as old as hi-fi itself (well maybe a little younger as solid state amps didn’t come into regular commercial use until middle of the 1960s).
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If you’re a fan of funk and soul music and you’ve never spent time digging into the STAX/Volt catalog, do yourself a favor and put some time aside. If you’re familiar with the STAX/Volt sound but haven’t listened in a while, here’s some background on why those records sound so great, even 50+ years later.
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You wouldn’t be wrong to think the vocals on most pop hits today are made up from bits and pieces of dozens – if not hundreds – of vocal takes. It’s called comping and while it makes a vocal perfect, it doesn’t always make it human.
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