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But I have to allow that Teac's new 700-series components-the UD-701N Network Player and AP-701B Power Amplifier-have a decidedly seductive vibe.
They're compact but dense, beautiful and beautifully finished, and they sound fabulous. Japan's Teac (more correctly "TEAC") has had several incarnations in the U.S. audio marketplace of the past half-century or so. The firm, which arose from the Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company, came to prominence here with its affordable, multitrack openreel (and later, cassette-based) tape recorders, which made studio-like, multi-instrument home recording widely available for the first time, in 1969 and throughout the '70's. (Early adopters included Bob Dylan and The Band, at their famous "Big Pink" basement studio in the Woodstock, NY area, while a decade later Springsteen's "Nebraska" was famously recorded on a Teac multitrack cassette system.) In the mid '70's Teac, with Sony and Philips, launched the Elcaset, a giantsized enclosed-tape format that promised open-reel performance and flexibility with cassette-like convenience.
Sadly, like all too many other examples of technically superior engineering, it launched, bubbled briefly, and sank leaving little trace on the collective audio memory. Teac then became an important purveyor of compact integrated music systems, first cassette and later CD-based, which came to be called "midi" systems. Finally, in the late 20th century and into the current one the firm morphed into an unabashedly high-end audiophile brand, with limited-production separate components under both its own and its Esoteric names.
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![The Big Clean](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/5602/1789370/YdO2KShqj1724759354581/THE-BIG-CLEAN.jpg)
The Big Clean
Chances are you probably do not think about the state of your electronic devices too often. Oh, you might think about all the upgrades you would like to make; where you would put those new tower speakers, or how a second or third subwoofer would really tame those bass modes in your room, or how much more cinematic a larger screen would be. Sure, you think about that part of your system. But how often do you think about the well-being of your system?
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Planar-Magnetic Attraction
THE DIPTYQUE DP 115 speakers are a new model 2-way, ribbon, and planar magnetic driver dipole \"isodynamic\" speaker system designed and built in France.
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Full-Featured 4K
THE QN95D is one of two televisions we went hands-on with on a recent trip to Samsung's New Jersey QA Lab, the other being the S95D quantum-dot OLED.
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Party Animal
FOR ANY party, the Soundcore Boom 2 Plus Outdoor Bass Bluetooth Speaker is an essential invite.
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It's the End of the World. How About Popcorn and a Movie?
Attention all preppers! Today's column is right up your alley-or, more precisely-your tunnel to your underground bunker.
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Bridging the Analog-Digital Gap on a Recliner
When I shopped for a motorized recliner, I rejected models with their own Internet Protocol address and built-in speakers. No need. I had already placed a smart speaker on an étagère beside the space where I had planned to put the chair. I'd have a smartphone in my hand and the room would be bathed in Wi-Fi.
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BACK TO THE GARDEN
AN AQUARIAN EXPOSITION in WHITE LAKE, N.Y.
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Big Sound, Small Price
DOLBY ATMOS, once a costly premium, is enjoying a surge of popularity across a range of new audio gear.
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Classic Sound with Streaming Smarts
THE TWENTIETH century had its Roaring Twenties; welcome to the twenty-first's Streaming Twenties.
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Stand and Deliver
IT DOESN'T seem all that long ago that SVS first entered the audio scene.