The April 2014 Issue of audioXpress is Now Online

This month’s audioXpress reviews the different approaches in microphone placement techniques for capturing and recording unamplified acoustic music, particularly classical music. A recent study and AES presentation has reignited this issue and our author Gary Galo decided an historical perspective was needed in his article “Stereophonic Recording: What Do Listeners Prefer?”

This month’s audioXpress brings a great article from our regular contributor Thomas Perazella, in which he revisits the art of studio reamping and the different approaches and implications of that two-stage studio process. During the process, we first record a …

Our first issue for the New Year highlights the main technologies and product launches at the 135th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, one of the best audio engineering-related events in the US. While there, AES celebrated its 65th anniversary. And, …

In this month’s issue, you can read our review of the elysia xfilter 500, an extraordinary equalizer “Made in Germany” in a 500-series format that offers a precise stereo image based on computer-selected, stepped potentiometers and low-tolerance film capacitors. In …

Editors’ note: Just prior to printing this issue, we learned that Ed Dell, founder of Audio Amateur, had passed away. He was 90 years old. Ed was a remarkable man whose talents ranged from DIY audio to publishing to writing. …

Many years ago, a children’s book inspired Chuck Hansen’s interest in audio electronics. Soon, the clever kid from New Jersey was listening to New York City AM stations on a kit-built radio and disassembling every dead TV and radio he …

We’re now a month into the new year. What types of audio projects have you designed and installed? We’re interested, so send us an e-mail with “audio update” in the subject line and include details about your latest project. We’re …

The first issue of Circuit Cellar magazine—a sister publication of audioXpress that’s focused on embedded computer engineering—was printed in 1988 with a now-famous quote on the cover: inside the box still counts. Since then, engineers and innovators have used the …

Each year’s “speaker special” issue is a favorite among audioXpress readers. This 2012 edition features in-depth articles about speaker technologies and design projects, without completely ignoring other interesting topics such as tube amps. This year’s special speaker section features informative articles about a detailed loudspeaker design project and an intriguing electrostatic speaker experiment. We also included a third must-read speaker-related article, but it isn’t in the special section because it focuses on enclosures rather than speaker design.

Choosing the correct speaker enclosure can be the difference between decent sound and excellent sound. As Mike Klasco and Steve Tatarunis explain in the September 2012 issue of audioXpress, “No matter how much effort was spent on the drivers’ design, …