You Can DIY! The Live-Edge Dipoles

For the speaker builders, Perry Marshall details everything there is to know about his beautiful Live-Edge Dipoles project. A design that was inspired by two slabs of birch the author brought home, allowing to finally bring to fruition his idea to build these dipoles. Marshall reveals all the specifics of the driver choices, radiation pattern, and crossovers, while explaining the effects of the obtained radiation pattern and how the speakers behave in practice. This article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2021.

This audio measurement software creation from Canadian software designer Chris Liscio was sold to Røde in 2018. FuzzMeasure is the very first product of the new RødeTest division of Røde Microphones, a subsidiary of Freedman Electronics, also the owner of Aphex, Event Electronics, and SoundField brands. FuzzMeasure audio measurement software stands out for its high-quality graphs and for tucking an immense amount of control into a sleek, minimal interface. This article was originally published in audioXpress, May 2020.

audioXpress May 2020 Glass Audio/Tube Focus edition is now available. Highlighted on the cover is a review of the RødeTest FuzzMeasure Audio and Acoustic Measurement Software and Ethan Winer's experiments to measure capacitor distortion. For tube enthusiasts, Bill Reeve repurposes an old Shure preamp for line-level duty, and Bruce Heran details how he built his two Mini Blocks tube amplifiers. Mike Rothacher shares an inexpensive MOSFET Follower (MoFo) Class A amplifier project, Richard Honeycutt provides valuable lessons about repairing guitar amplifiers, and there's plenty more audio electronics focused articles. Download now!

In this article series, Stuart Yaniger examines ways to create a low-cost system for lab-grade audio electronics measurements. The pieces of a powerful modern measurement system comprise a sound card, software, and a signal conditioning interface and, of course, the right computer. That’s where Yaniger delves in this third part, also sharing some of his first findings on available software. This article was originally published in audioXpress, August 2015.

From the same brilliant software company that created TapeDeck (probably the best software audio recorder ever designed for the Mac), SuperMegaUltraGroovy just announced the release of FuzzMeasure 4 professional audio and acoustic measurement software, now updated for Mac OS X Yosemite and much improved.