More than a dozen soldiers seized control of Burkina Faso’s state television late Friday, declaring that the country’s coup leader-turned-president, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, had been overthrown after only nine months in power. A statement read by a junta spokesman said Capt. Ibrahim Traore is the new military leader of Burkina Faso, a…

Click:微信过滤Ken Micallef wrote about the Mobile Fidelity SourcePoint 10 in June 2023 (Vol.46 No.6): The SourcePoint 10 loudspeaker from MoFi Electronics (footnote 1) is an interesting, even unusual design. Sized somewhere between a conventional standmount and a small floorstander (but intended to be used on stands), the SourcePoint 10’s beefy cabinet is similar in size…

Click:Automotive part mold designThis one’s for Herb Reichert: the booth outside the huge room where Solen Electronique was demming what they described as “The Ultimate Experience” system (CDN$115,435) featured parts and components from Solen and The Parts Connection/Dayton Audio. This box of NOS tubes would have had Herb drooling! Inside the room, the 4-way, 97dB-sensitive…

Of the celebrated triumvirate of John Scofield, Pat Metheny, and Bill Frisell—the most original and influential jazz guitarists of the past 50 years—none is more distinctive, or self-effacing, than Frisell, a true changeling of the guitar. Frisell is a jazz-based musician, but his music crisscrosses genres, and his guitar playing isn’t bound to or limited…

This photograph of a classic 1960s HP scope (capable of a sharper and brighter trace than today’s equipment) at Ben Duncan Research Labs shows a sinewave emerging from an innovative class of solid-state analog amplifiers, developed with Jerry Mead (founder of much-loved Rauch and Otis amplifier brands, also a record producer and drummer). The residual…

I am proud of the fact that my first review for Stereophile was of a modestly priced integrated amplifier called the Rogue Audio Sphinx. Specified at 100Wpc into 8 ohms, 200Wpc into 4 ohms (footnote 1), it played the KEF LS50s like it was made for them. It was simple and handsome and cost only…

Talk about a Scarlet Letter. The term class-D amplification, which describes PS Audio’s new M1200 monoblocks, exists only because another amplifier innovation had already parked in the “C” space. Soon after appearing in high-performance audio gear, class-D became synonymous with “digital amplification” in part because, like early CDs, many listeners found the sound glary, hard,…

Characteristically, the email from Kal Rubinson got straight to the point: “I have a WiiM Mini that I have played with, but I am not the right one to review this as I am not sufficiently interested in or knowledgeable about wireless streaming. It … can handle uncompressed PCM via its DACs.” “I’ll review it,”…

Willow Nightingale is out of Saturday’s Collision event. Tony Khan announced on Twitter Saturday afternoon that Nightingale would be out of the show due to “injuries suffered this week in Japan”. Her Owen Hart Foundation tournament semifinal match against Athena has instead been moved to next Friday’s AEW Rampage. “Due to injuries suffered this week…

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… When: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 Where: Minneapolis, Minn. at Target Center How To Watch: Live on TBS Attendance: WrestleTix reports today that 4,394 tickets have been distributed so far; arena is set up for 4,979. Announced Matches & Other Notes Mark Briscoe vs. Rush – Continental…