Audio Equipment

For audio enthusiasts, audiophiles, and the amateur wannabes! ONE WAY reviews audio equipement and stereos for all budgets and tastes. Receivers, amplifiers, speakers, car stereos, subwoofers, speaker cable, audio furniture, pc speakers and more from well known and up and coming brands such as Music Hall, JBL, Yamaha, Onkyo, Tannoy, Polk, Definitive, Mirage, Harman Kardon, Eminence, Genelec, Bose, Bostom Acoustics, Denon, B&W, Sunfire, Krell, Athena, KEF, Paradigm, Sony and more.

Guitar Micing
By Ronan Chris Murphy

In the last half century, the electric guitar has climbed to the top of the totem pole of most Western music styles, as well as popular music all around the globe. Despite the legend that one record label executive turned down a chance to sign The Beatles because “guitar music was on the way out,” the guitar, and primarily the electric guitar, has continued to be a mainstay of almost every big musical trend in the last 50 years; and, in fact, the electric guitar has defined and created many of the great musical movements of modern times.

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Ars Aures Mini Sensorial Speakers - Audiomeca Memphisto II X CD Player
By Ken Micallef

High end audio is really not that different from any other sphere of commerce, manufacturing, or the like. Put simply, you get what you pay for.

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Front End, Front End, Front End
By Ronan Chris Murphy

In the hallowed halls where recording engineers convene to discuss the secret art of recording . . . well, actually in bars and at parties when recording engineers happen to get bump into each other and start talking about gear once they have had the mandatory debate about digital versus analog technology, they usually start talking about gear they love and it usually revolves around three things: Front End, Front End, and Front End.

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Diavolo
By Ken Micallef

People sometimes ask audio reviewers, “What do you own?” This is my chance to answer that question. As one who has reviewed high end audio gear for six years, I have had my share of amplifiers to enjoy.

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Kuzma Stabi S Turntable & Omega Speakers
By Ken Micallef

Analog rules, right? I mean, gather up all your expensive CD players, cut lil iPods and cellphones that play "music" and none come close the musical purity and palatable enjoyment of spinning vinyl on a good turntable. The Kuzma Stabi S Turntable/Kuzma Stogi S Tonearm is produced in Slovenia, and has been in production, unchanged, for nearly 10 years. When something works…

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The Art of Making Records
By Pat Mavromatis

Part I

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DeVore Fidelity Gibbon 7.1s - Duevel Shuttle integrated amp
By Ken Micallef

At $3,000 a pair, the DeVore Fidelity Gibbon 7.1s are the most tonally pure, articulate, dynamic and transparent bookshelf speakers I have yet heard.

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Music Hall a25.2 Integrated Amp and cd 25.2 CD Player: Affordable Acquisitions
By Ken Micallef

Entrance into the realm of real high end audio has a longtime advocate in Roy Hall and Music Hall Audio. As covered in the previous Audio Files, Music Hall’s brand name radios and turntables, as well as their distribution of such lines as Creek and Epos, have made them a low cost leader. Costing $599 each, Music Hall’s a25.2 Integrated Amp and CD 25.2 CD Player continue their tradition of super bang for the buck.

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Music Hall RDR-1
By Ken Micallef

Ever since Henry Kloss revealed his Tivoli Audio Model One radio to a hitherto unknowing public, tabletop radios have seen a surge in sales like fine wine to well-heeled city slickers. Kloss’s little-box-that-could was a splendid feat of engineering know-how, a tiny cabinet that produced a massive, warm sound.

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Bose Cylindrical RadiatorTM Loudspeaker
By Perry B.

Word amongst “music-techies” and performers alike is that Bose has a very unique speaker system that is a godsent for the performing musician.

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