Porté à bout de bras par un fabuleux Mickey Rourke lancé dans une enquête sordide et un Robert de Niro méphistophélique, "Angel Heart" d'Alan Parker met plus d'une fois les nerfs à rude épreuve. Jusqu'à la révélation finale choc. 1955. Harry Angel est un détective privé. Un homme se faisant appeler Louis Cyphre l’engage pour …
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The three major credit reporting agencies have long drawn scrutiny for their practices, but Americans are growing more frustrated with the nation’s Big Three as evidenced by the record number of complaints sent to the U.S. government’s consumer protection agency, according to a new tally. More than 800,000 complaints poured into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in …
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President Biden called the damage to the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines “a deliberate act of sabotage,” rebuking Russia’s claim that the West was responsible for the explosions. The president said Friday that divers would eventually be sent to the pipelines, which were designed to bring gas from Russia to Europe, to determine what happened. …
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Alors que sa toute première aventure solo est rediffusée sur W9, Iron Man a-t-il un avenir dans le Marvel Cinematic Universe ? Peut-on espérer le revoir sous les traits de Robert Downey Jr. ? “Et moi je suis Iron Man” : c’est avec ces mots, qui bouclaient la boucle en faisant écho à la toute …
Note: This is a developing story. Updates will be posted as they unfold. Lenbrook Corp, the privately owned Canadian enterprise whose holdings include NAD electronics, PSB speakers, and Bluesound (the maker of the BluOS music operating software system) has acquired the assets of MQA, Ltd, including MQA technology and the SCL6. The press release announcing …
The July Stereophile will include my Follow-Up report on the Joseph Audio Pulsar loudspeakers; the same Pulsars Michael Fremer raved about in his full review. Before I submitted the review, Jana Dagdagan and I made a live binaural recording/video to accompany my written report so you, the reader at home, could experience the exact same …
One of the recurring themes of this column has been my search for servers that will support the playback of high-resolution multichannel files with DSP for speaker/room equalization (EQ), as well as the format conversion and downsampling that are often part of those processes. Because most EQ software is PCM-based, format comversion is needed to …
Looking at the Digital Link II’s build quality and circuitry, it’s hard to believe that it can sell for $499 at retail. The Digital Link II shares the same appearance as PS Audio’s SuperLink and UltraLink processors, but has a 4″-shorter chassis. The ¼”-thick front panel uses PS Audio’s familiar touch-sensitive switches that turn the …
During the four years that I’ve reviewed for Stereophile, I’ve had the privilege of evaluating products from some of the world’s best-known audiophile companies: Audio Research, Bel Canto, CH Precision, dCS, D’Agostino, Dynaudio, EMM Labs, Jadis, Krell, Nordost, and Wilson, among others. But one long-standing manufacturer whose exhibits at audio shows invariably inspire ecstatic reports, …
Blood, Sweat & Tears began as Al Kooper’s dream of a rock band with horns. By the time he realized the concept—on the band’s 1968 debut, Child Is Father to the Man—it had become much more: an engaging hybrid of New York soul, Greenwich Village folk, and innovative jazz arrangements. With producer John Simon at …
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