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UHF Magazine No. 76 was published in May, 2006. All

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EDITORIAL: Paul Bergman, Reine Lessard, Albert Simon

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Ultra High Fidelity Magazine is completely independent of

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contributors, unless explicitly specified otherwise.

The all-digital issue

Until this issue, Albert was taking the widely-admired product photos

appearing in UHF with a Nikon camera on Kodak Portra 160 ﬁlm. As of this

issue all his photos are digital. UHF has acquired a Sony R1 digital camera.

Yes, I know, that means we have in a sense dumped analog (ﬁlm) for digital,

but in fact that ship sailed a long time ago. The magazine has been printed

digitally for something like a decade, which means that our nice “analog”

ﬁlm negatives got digitized anyway before placement in our all-digital pages.

The difference: digitization is now taking place right in the camera instead

of a desktop digitizer.

Albert is delighted with the results. I think you will be too.

All color, except…

Issue No. 75 was UHF’s very ﬁrst all-color issue, and both our readers and

our advertisers took note. Oh, except for the eight-page insert in the centre

of the magazine, the one for our Audiophile Store. That remained black and

white, and on cheaper paper besides. It has been that way for many years,

with the economy paper intended to hold costs down.

But was it holding costs down, or is labor even more expensive than pre-

mium paper grades? After the last issue went to press we asked our printer

rep: if we dumped the insert and just added eight more color pages, would it

be more expensive? Or cheaper? We got the answer the next day: it would

be cheaper!

That’s why the insert is gone. We scrambled to ﬁnd color pictures of all

the accessories found in our store, and the store catalog is now on full color

pages. So now we really are all-color, except…

Except that audio manufacturers haven’t got the word about color. Check

out the stack of three headphone ampliﬁers on page 38. Can you believe that’s

a color picture? There isn’t a hint of a tint in any of them. Of course when

you plug one in you’ll probably see a tiny, barely visible blue diode glowing

its little non monochromatic note. Whoopee!

Even Apple, that champion of high style in consumer electronics, knows

only two colors, one of which is white and the other of which is not. Good

thing the iPod (on page 45) has a color screen. As for the tragically misnamed

iPod Hi-Fi on page 78…well, I rest my case.

And speaking of the iPod…

We’ve already mentioned that a 60 Gb iPod, the largest one available, is

part of our reference arsenal. We’ve also mentioned that we continue to reject

compressed music.

A major article in this issue (High End Hi-Fi From Your Computer) explores

in some detail how a home computer can become your main music source, and

why you don’t have to leave great sound and musical sensibilities behind. The

review involves a device known as a Squeezebox, the aforementioned iPod,

and the very computer this issue was created on. You’ve read other reviews

of this sort, but this one includes one important difference. In listening, we

used exactly the same criteria we use to review even the best high end com-

ponents.

We ﬁgure you wouldn’t settle for less, and neither will we.

Editorial

About this free edition

UHF lives in great part from the sale of the full edition of the magazine. But we

also offer this free edition. The articles are not complete, as you’ll see, but many

are, and you’ll ﬁnd lots to read. Of course you can order either the printed edi

tion or the full electronic edition, and get every word.

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