“Resolution can be a tricky thing when it comes to digital,” my friend Michael Lavorgna recently told me. “Too much, and my focus shifts from music to sound; too little, and I become less engaged.” Lavorgna, a visual artist and proprietor of the online audio-and-music publication Twittering Machines (footnote 1), is one of my favorite […]
Amongst all the news regarding CM Punk and the new AEW Saturday night show, one thing is still true: the situation between Punk and The Elite remains unresolved. Pat Laprade joined Dave Meltzer and Garrett Gonzales on Wrestling Observer Radio Saturday to discuss the situation between CM Punk and The Elite, who will appear to […]
Don Was is a music lover. Looking at his extensive discography as a record producer and musician, one is struck by the variety of artists he’s worked with: from Iggy Pop to the B-52’s, from Roy Orbison to Elton John, with over half a dozen stops along the way as producer for a little band […]
Friday night's episode of AEW Rampage averaged 340,000 viewers on TNT, down 8.9 percent from the previous week. It's the lowest audience total in the history of the show for an episode that aired in its normal Friday 10 p.m. time slot. The record low was on February 17 of this year when Rampage aired […]
Roman Reigns sounds quite happy with his WWE contract. He spoke with Ariel Helwani ahead of WrestleMania 39 and said anyone on the WWE roster would take his deal if they could get it, specifically naming Seth Rollins. Reigns said: I love my setup. They can all say what they want, every single one of […]
I am an artist by trade. Saws and brushes and cameras are some of the tools I use. The aesthetic quality of the things I make is determined not by my skill with tools but by the dynamic relationships I establish among space, color, tone, and shape. Of those elements, shapes are the most important […]
MELVILLE, NY — Bethpage Federal Credit Union in Melville was robbed on Friday, Suffolk police told Patch. The same man, who has not been arrested, also tried to rob a Bethpage FCU branch in East Farmingdale 20 minutes earlier, police said. A man passed a teller a note at 9:42 a.m. demanding cash at Bethpage […]
Since 1925, Japan-based Luxman Corporation has manufactured high-quality integrated amplifiers, preamplifiers, power amplifiers, phono stages, turntables, and, more recently, DACs and CD players. But it has been 40 years since Luxman introduced a new phono cartridge; the last one was the LMC-2 in 1982, released just after 1981’s LMC-1. That dry period ended with the […]
FAIRFIELD, CT — A four-story, 40-unit apartment building is being proposed on Berkeley Road in Fairfield, under the state’s controversial 8-30g affordable housing regulations. The developer, Berkeley Rd. LLC, is proposing the complex would hold three two-bedroom units, eight studio units, and 29 one-bedroom units; 12 of the units, which represents 30 percent of the […]
As much as I admire Belgian amplifier designer Bruno Putzeys’s accomplishments, I have harbored some misgivings about class-D amplifier sound. I do not believe it represents the future of perfectionist audio. Despite the fact that today’s active loudspeakers depend entirely on class-D’s free horsepower, light weight, and low-temperature operation, I think it sounds vacant compared […]