Great loudspeakers don't just play music, they reveal the musician. This had to have been around 1987? I walked up to each one and I just asked them, are you an audiophile? And maybe four out of five of them would say, no, no, Im not! It doesnt seem like you had an epiphany when you were two years old, reading a book or something. Review to come. your enjoyment and passion for audio is both exuberant and obviously sincere. 1 . Interviews with audio designers and fellow audiophiles make more sense as videos than they do as transcribed text. Thread starter Southall-1998; Start date Jul 14, 2020; . The Sage's sculpted metal ear pieces also look really cool. Used with a high-end amplifier like aFerrumorSPL, this is a joy to listen to. Desire to learn and share knowledge of science required as is 20 years of participation in forums (not all true). In fact, while the tonality is quite balanced, the Utopia is so transparent that unlike some of the other Focal headphones, itdemandsgreat amplification. If that describes you, the KSE1200 deserves a serious audition. JA has been 'True North' for 4 Decades, HR is brilliant in his curiosity and honesty. I think he really understands the Law Of Diminishing Returns when buying gear. This is Shure's top dynamic driver in-ear headphone; it's the one I grab when I'm not reviewing an in-ear. The $399/366 iSine 10 sounds remarkably clear and spacious; no other in-ear headphone at this price can touch it. Ive heard them degrade the sound. In fact, you were my contact. The Harman Headphone Target Curve is an industry gold standard for the frequency response of headphones. Thread starter Southall-1998; Start date Jul 14, 2020; . It was a big part of my life, but it ended 21 years ago. The Audiophiliac is 12 years old-- that's a good long run, and this blog has been the most satisfying gig in my writing career. [25] He also expressed his interest in making additional sequels to the Police Academy and Cocoon movies, saying they would be surefire hits if they were to be made. Then I said, screw it. I also had one of those little six-transistor radios, and Id hold it up to my ear and listen to it. ', "I'm blown away by this speaker," says Steve, as he revisits the Cabasse brand for the first time since the 1990s when he sold them at Sound by Singer in NYC. On May 21, 2020, Guttenberg appeared on Holey Moley II: The Sequel. The 99 Neo's ($249, 229) sound is clear and richly balanced, and these closed-back over-the ear headphones do a good job hushing external noise. And one day we listened to Exile On Main St. at freaking loud volume in his West Village apartment. I wonder if it is a hard-wired trait. Steve admires the enclosures, observing that they are beautifully curved and "really solidly built", with binding posts he says he can best describe as "jewelry grade. Es gibt mehrere Grnde, warum dies passieren kann: Um wieder Zugriff zu erhalten, stellen Sie bitte sicher, dass Cookies und JavaScript aktiviert sind, bevor Sie die Seite neu laden the. It talks about how he is an audiophile and not just a "music lover." Too often I see this snobbish attitude from some audiophiles who despite obsessing about gear all the time, spending tens of . He then played the starring role in the 1977 California high-school comedy The Chicken Chronicles, set in Beverly Hills in 1969. Watch the video. I have a few questions regarding the specifications of these wonderful speaker systems. There are a few reasons this might happen: To regain access, please make sure that cookies and JavaScript are enabled before reloading the page. [5], In 1995, he was name-checked in The Simpsons episode "Homer the Great" in the song "We Do", whereby a fictional ancient secret society called the Stonecutters (a parody of the Freemasons) claim it was them that made Guttenberg a star. Guttenberg played Jim Craig in the TV movie Miracle on Ice (1981). These come with a longer cable terminated in an XLR jack. I would love to experience what he did with Zeppelin II. In 1997, he also starred in Zeus and Roxanne, Casper: A Spirited Beginning and alongside Kirsten Dunst in Disney's Tower of Terror, based on the attraction at the Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. I had a hard time taking notes for the review -- I just wanted to keep listening. In films, he acted in Don't Tell Her It's Me and 3 Men and a Little Lady. The best hi-fi components transcend mere performance and become conduits into other people's minds. One catch: it's an open design, so it doesn't hush external noise from planes, trains, buses and so on. Does he suddenly not like it any more? Best description of an audiophile I've heard yet. not to mention somewhat infectious. Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958) is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. The answer is bookshelf speakers. A lot of time it really defies conventional audiophile wisdom. Art Dudley [the late editor for Stereophile] was a proponent of taking all the tweaks out of your system with the goal of having it sound better. Its more about Steve talking about or expressing interest or being excited about those things. - Slideshow - Daily Intel", "Steve Guttenberg Explains Naked Jogging Video and Wins World Record | Celebrity Gossip and Entertainment News | VH1 Celebrity", "Steve Guttenberg Wins World Record, Spills Beans On Naked Jogging", "Community Episode 8: Intro to Recycled Cinema [Video]", "Steve Guttenberg: from Hollywood to panto in Kent", "Steve Guttenberg faced fans questions at a Police Academy screening at The Empire, Bromley", "Actor Steve Guttenberg talks about starring in panto at The Churchill, Bromley", "Tom Selleck says he's up for making 'Three Men and a Baby' sequel", "Guttenberg, Danson, Selleck Walking Down the Aisle for 'Three Men and a Bride'? - How does a 5" compression driver reproduce 20kHz, pushing a fairly large volume of air in such a horn? He said he loves the Jubilees and explained how he came to that conclusion. Back to the Heritage Jubilee. Thread starter Southall-1998; . I don't think the critics here in the forum liked that. [29], Guttenberg married model Denise Bixler [30]on September 30, 1988. About Steve Guttenberg, The Audiophiliac Goals 100% complete My goals for the Audiophiliac Daily Show are to keep this thing going, and making better, more informative videos. At the 2016 New York Walk to Fight Lymphedema & Lymphatic Diseases in Brooklyn, Guttenberg announced, via a pre-recorded message, that he had joined the Lymphatic Education & Research Network's (LE&RN) Honorary Board. Moving up the line we have the flagship closed-back, theStellia. My knowledge is minimal, especially with Klipsch engineers and I can articulate negatively. I would make a recording on reel-to-reel, then later on cassette, maybe even sometimes on an 8-track. It was the only day I ever spent with Harry where things went well. I have recently gone to headphones for a growing portion of my listening time. He took part in the 2008 spring season of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Anna Trebunskaya, and was eliminated on April 1. [5][6][7] While still in high school, Guttenberg attended a summer program at the Juilliard School and studied under John Houseman. As I was doing that, I was basically learning how to write. What else did you expect him to do? Guttenberg then had the romantic male lead in Cocoon, another box-office success. In fact, they can be particularly revealing of all the addictive qualities found ingreat source gear, such as the Pathos Aurium or Chord Hugo. The combinations are endless, and if your curiosity is piqued, give us a call or send us a chat or email to find out if a Focal headphone is about to take you on yournext steps in your audio journey. 2023's Best TV and Streaming Shows You Can't Miss on Netflix, HBO, Disney Plus and More, Tanks and Treads: Look Inside the National Museum of Military Vehicles, Yamaha motorcycle and instrument designers trade jobs (pictures), CNET's 'Day of the Dead Devices' altar (pictures), 2018 Ford F-150 Power Stroke reports for diesel duty, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. The lead engineer at Klipsch worked on this very diligently. Ulteriori informazioni sono disponibili in questo. Through the review, Steve often visits this idea of wholeness, weight, and fullness that contributes to the believability of the sound. . But then you use it with a power conditioner on it and you put special feet underneath it, and then you do all these other things. Seattle Area. SG: But when I was older, like 10 or something, my parents had a big jukebox and I would just lay on the floor in front of the jukebox and feel the bass rolling over me. Back to the Heritage Jubilee. Steve has written for numerous audio and mainstream publications and websites including CNET, The Absolute Sound, Home Theater, E-Town and many more, was a projectionist in Times Square and worked as a salesperson at Sound by Singer. It sounds more real. The closed-back design does a good job keeping external noise at bay. Or if youre describing the sound of some other thing that youve done? The AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt digital converter: The cure for the Bluetooth blues? Sage retails for $599 or 457. APathos Inpol Earis my choice of top-end amplification, and this combination is smooth, punchy, and just dripping in musicality. Part of this tendency is due to long hours at work, and the ease of a USB-powered DAC/headphone amp to provide portable and excellent sound reproduction. But having big sound systems that I could play before the audience was in the theater was something I did. Ditto for show reports, audio store visits and other on-location videos. The diaphragm is not a simple dome. In 1980, a Coca-Cola commercial featured him trying to help a non-English-speaking woman with a flat bicycle tire.[9]. Here's Steve on what makes him tick as a self-confessed audiophile: You've got HR, JA and Steve G guiding and mentoring. Still really cheap, don't you think? His first film as director/producer/co-screenwriter/star was P.S. Steve Guttenberg the Audiophiliac Loves These Speakers! Take the KZ ZSA in-ear headphone, this two-way design runs an 8mm dynamic driver for bass, and a balanced armature driver for the treble, both housed in a snazzy CNC machined aluminum ear piece. All other ZMF headphones before the Auteur were all closed-back designs; the big news here is that the Auteur is open-back, and right away the sound grew more spacious. Steve Guttenberg is the Audiophiliac. The same year, he starred in the Nancy Walker-directed Can't Stop the Music, a semiautobiographical movie about the disco group Village People. I came to CNET long before that, focusing on reviews and articles here and there, but the Audiophiliac was more personal, covering a wider range of subjects and ideas than my other pieces for CNET. So it got to be a thing for me, which continues to this day, about audiophiles hating that word audiophile. And many of them, most of them, deny that theyre audiophiles. Focal is well-known in the speaker arena for fantastic products, but is also a respected manufacturer of some very fine headphones. And I started to do a word for word transcription of that interview. Posted October 25, 2022. And then you say youre reviewing the Product X Preamp. It's the sort of headphone you fall in love with from the second you hear it. FREQUENCY RESPONSE (+/- 3 dB) 18Hz 20kHz Starting with the looks. One feeds the other. FD: How do we get younger people into audio? Guttenberg had a cameo in Amazon Women on the Moon and supported Michael Caine and Sally Field in Surrender. If you love music, you will love it even more after you hear Steve describes how he listens to music, what it means to him, and names some of the best equipment in the business. Talk about entry level that doesnotlook or sound remotely entry level!Focal Celestee delivers style and punch way beyond its price. Well, I have that effect on people. An analogy for myself, would be coming of age in the first muscle car era. Sie sind ein Power-User, der sich mit bermenschlicher Geschwindigkeit durch die Website bewegt. Compression Driver This made in the US headphone prices start at $1,599 with solid teak ear cups. FD: I sometimes play music through a PA system (like the kind a rock band would use) to get the same effect. Steve Guttenberg Jul 4, 2019 A big THANK YOU to Steve Guttenberg (aka Audiophiliac) of the favorable Ares DAC review in the world renowned CNET.com and the YouTube channel. The Celestion Axi2050 is not your usual compression driver. I had just met Bob and he started to tell me about his system. We don't know, but a reviewer who is constantly testing and publicly describing new products can't spend 10 years just promoting the same speaker (publicly) by always visibly conforming to his personal preference. However, whatmostlisteners prefer, may not be whatyouprefer, so consider headphones that follow the Harman Curve a good baseline for your headphone auditions. The other part of my headphone gravitation is the cost to performance ratio of cans. KZ is one of those companies, like FiiO before it, that really pushes the performance envelope of budget audiophile gear. Let's dive in. FD: System tweaking is a tough one. I was maybe four years old and it was a yellow 78, a childrens record. HF - 16 ohms, miminum 8 ohms I wrote down interesting titles and the name of the band and stuff. I was at a party and a lot of audiophiles were there. He listened patiently to a few iterations of my evolving (revolving) stereo systems, enjoyed them with me, was able to identify some of the characteristics of them, but happily went back to some mediocre bookshelf speakers when I left. Koss makes a bunch of headphones over a wide price range, but the company has a special affinity for making outstanding budget 'phones. HF - 100W / 400W By Guttenberg can be seen on History Channel's 2015 miniseries Sons of Liberty. Im actually slowly, extremely slowly, writing my biography of my 25 years as a projectionist. Steve comes across (at least in my view) as a 'mark', to a use pro-wrestling term. Something like theNaim Uniti Atom HEmakes a perfect pairing. I intend to tune in a second time this weekend to make sure I did not miss anything of substance. Keep up the excellent work. . I'm not sure what the future holds, or whether I will return to CNET in 2020, but for now, you can catch my work on the Audiophiliac Daily Show on YouTube. There is something visceral, say, about a really good loudspeaker that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up at attention. SG: I put him to sleep! I found his description very gushy but to be honest I also found it lacking in nuance. 1More quickly established itself as the budget audiophile headphone maker of choice. And thats what started me in looking for that sound, that lost sound. 2018 has been an outstanding year for headphones. One thing for sure, impressive looking speakers. At one point Harry he said to me, would you like to write for the magazine? And I said, yeah. In this video, Steve Guttenberg, "The Audiophiliac" and a regular contributor to Stereophile 's "As We See It" column, gives us a tour of his system in Brooklyn, NY. Oh, and it sounds better than any Audeze headphone I've heard to date. By supporting creators you love on Patreon, you're becoming an active participant in their creative process. Un plug-in per browser di terze parti, come Ghostery o NoScript, impedisce l'esecuzione di JavaScript. And it was another one of those moments of, wow, that sounds so good. [13] He also performed in London's West End, where he starred in The Boys Next Door. Thats a video for another time! Youre almost a pioneer of that. In 1998, Guttenberg acted in action films, Airborne, and Overdrive, as well as the comedy Home Team. Wow, thanks. SG: No! Additional information is available in this. He is not as offensive as, for example, Amir from ASR. Share More sharing options. Im not a tweaker per se. Now we're all oldsters, with just a smattering of under-fortysomethings. Tests on $3K power cables are just hilarious and they're probably true for the most part). What a treasure. We are also great fans of the Murano here at Upscale. Steve Guttenberg/CNET The Audiophiliac is 12 years old -- that's a good long run, and this blog has been the most satisfying gig in my writing career. All rights reserved. The best of the best in-, on-, and over-the-ear headphones according to Steve Guttenberg, the Audiophiliac. Got almost the same back, "what I do not look good all the time." Also available with an Apple Lightning cable. Not audiophile good but just thrilling good. I also like that he periodically have videos where he features or interviews other . Sphere - he sees the big picture and explains it very well, Obviously, I gravitated toward what provided the most hope for me in this video "article.". Well done Jana. Designed and engineered by the company's co-founder Sidney Corderman and the McIntosh engineering team, the MC275 (2 x 75 watts per channel) was the most powerful McIntosh stereo amplifier in its day. That was the first thing I ever wrote. I spend a LOT of time in my office and, because of that, I want a system that I enjoy in that space. Until now. Display as a link instead, As it was, it was very positive on the one hand, but he didn't share his concrete listening impressions with us as much as he sometimes does. The E3000 is the best budget in-ear headphone I've heard in ages. Steve's genuine enthusiasm for . Jubilee review by Steve Guttenburg, Audiophiliac. My goals for the Audiophiliac Daily Show are to keep this thing going, and making better, more informative videos. I played it over and over and over and over. Guttenberg is good at connecting to a broad audience, he's also quite masterful at stirring the pot with his "questions" about audio that he posts on Facebook. Youre their daily friend or something like that. And thats kind of what my YouTube channel is. You feel music, it's such a big part of your life you search out the best speakers, headphones, amps, turntables, or digital converters you can afford. Maybe they just dont like being called that; they think its too nerdy, they think its too introverted. Moving up, we have the first serious open-back of the Focal lineup, theClear MG. SG: But it was the golden age for you at The Absolute Sound. My Sting Ray sounds different from my custom Jazz bass, which is different from my Kubicki Ex Factor, which is different from my Jaguar bass, which is different from my Yamaha TRB6, etc. We call your blog a personality blog because its not about the product or the thing youre writing about that day. FD: Peter Aczel and Harry Pearson would really go at each other in print, really nasty stuff, and then theyd see each other at a party and it would be, hey, Peter, how are you doing? I thought they hated each other from reading their magazines but it was just the opposite. Steve has written for numerous audio and mainstream publications and websites including CNET, The Absolute Sound, Home Theater, E-Town and many more, was a projectionist in Times Square and worked as a salesperson at Sound by Singer. It was developed by Dr. Sean E. Olive, acoustic research fellow, and Todd Welti, distinguished engineer, Harman International, hence the other term, Olive-Welti curve. He could also have talked about the power of the sound, about the fine differentiations that are there at the same time, about the wide spectrum of music that you can hear well, or about the deep clean bass. CROSSOVER FREQUENCY 340 Hz All in all, it was another superb production-by-Jana in which a video "says 1000 words" and much more. A third-party browser plugin, such as Ghostery or NoScript, is preventing JavaScript from running. However, they will demonstrateclear gains provided bybetter amplification and digital-to-analogconverters. SG: I had my CNET blog, The Audiophiliac, for 12 years. Yes, you can easily cancel or upgrade your pledge at any time. We use cookies to ensure a better experience on our website. I go back and forth myself. The Audiophiliac reviews the Cabasse three-way passive standmount "A champ at unraveling mysteries and presenting them back to you." The best hi-fi components transcend mere performance and become conduits into other people's minds. Later, on August 2, he appeared on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, via Cameo. For around twelve pennies day you're helping support my daily videos! Now Steve has had the CW4 for three whole years. #1. One day I took a nap as young children do. So we had this phone call and we really hit it off. On December 12, 2011, Guttenberg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That, combined with a wide dispersion phase plug (aka throat lens) gives it very wide bandwidth performance. There is nothing shameful about loving music and sound. Sundara sells for $499 in the US, 449 in the UK and AU$699 in Australia. Cabasse is known for its dynamic accuracy, and Steve especially notes how the Muranos reminded him that a piano is a percussion instrument, accurately conveying that transient energy of felt-tipped hammers hitting strings. I've chosen my favorites and humbly present them to you in no particular order. Call, email, or chat with one of our sales specialists to find out how best the Cabasse Murano standmount, or the Murano Alto floorstander will fit into your system. Speed. In 1985, Police Academy was quickly followed by a sequel, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment. And I have very poor vision. I associate that sort of sound with vanishingly low distortion, and maybe that's why the Clear ($1,499, 1,399) makes music sound so realistic. Steve Guttenberg. If you're of a certain age and remember . SG: An epiphany came when I met (recording engineer) Bob Katz at a New York Audio Show. Recommended Posts. The speaker addressed deftly the eternal Stereophile (and audiophile writ large) frustration: the cost of gear. Want CNET to notify you of price drops and the latest stories? And here we have almost 6 octaves, from 340 to 20,000Hz. On August 25, 2008, Guttenberg released a video titled "Steve Guttenberg's Steak House"[14] on Will Ferrell's Funny or Die website. It 's not that he couldn't hear them, just that he didn't get the particular enjoyment I would get out of it. [16] On November 12, 2008, Guttenberg appeared as a guest on the British talk show The Paul O'Grady Show, where he said he made the video for Will Ferrell's Funny or Die website, but then decided to release it virally "as if it were real"[17] as part of a challenge set on the show. Steve Guttenberg: the Audiophiliac, Part One, There is a Saturday Night Live sketch from 1996 in, This time out, I want to share some audio-related news, Recently, a college buddy posted a picture of himself on, First, the Nice part: One of my earliest memories. The clarity and open quality was special, truly remarkable for a headphone that retails for $150. Celebs Wiki Steve Guttenberg: It was a cowboy record or something. When I started it, there were, I dont know, 30 other blogs at the same time because blogs were a thing.
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