The Gearhead

Every person who has walked back into the testing area of The Music Room has seen this VAC tube amp sitting on its box and instantly remarked on it. Remarks are either appearance-related (“Holy…

Speakers have an incredibly difficult job. We ask them to perfectly replicate the sound of a double bass played in a reverberant room, and then we turn around and ask them to crank Brothers In Arms at…

I talk a lot about the sound of speakers or components being “right,” and I want two give a little background on what I mean by that. I grew up steeped in music and surrounded by excellent…

OK, I get it. In fact, I got it immediately when I pressed play after gently installing the Siltech interconnects into my humble but accurate and musical system here at The Music Room. What’s so…

One funny memory from my recent attempt to build a subwoofer for my listening rig at home was the advice I got from other builders to steer away from certain open baffle designs because they “ar…