Maroon Audio Journal
Music. Film. Deeper listening.
Records, cinema and practical audio — stories to explore, systems to understand.
Audio Systems & Technology
How Much Amplifier Power Do You Really Need?
A practical guide to speaker sensitivity, listening distance, headroom, power ratings, and why amplifier watts are not a simple speaker-matching formula.
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Industry News & Emerging Technology
XGIMI HORIZON 30: What Matters Before the Lights Go Down
XGIMI’s HORIZON 30 launch explained through room placement, 24fps film cadence, mode-specific brightness and sound-system connections.
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Music & Listening
Albums, artists, recordings and attentive listening.
Delia Derbyshire
Maroon Audio Journal · 16 October 2026 The original Doctor Who theme offers an unusually direct introduction to Delia Derbyshire. Its springing bass and sliding melody are…
中文 Read articleBill Evans Trio — Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Maroon Audio Journal · 16 October 2026 Sunday at the Village Vanguard · Riverside · 1961Bill Evans: piano · Scott LaFaro: double bass · Paul Motian: drumsRecorded…
中文 Read articleBjörk — Homogenic
Audio Journal · 16 October 2026 Eight string players, a library of volcanic beats, and the decisions that made a small palette feel immense. Original album artwork.…
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Independent Labels · Jamaica / United Kingdom A guitar overdub and a hinged record sleeve reveal how Chris Blackwell helped the Wailers reach a new audience, and…
中文 Read articleDuke Ellington: The People Inside the Sound
Billy Strayhorn, Juan Tizol and the musicians whose individual voices made an orchestra’s identity.
中文 Read articleFolkways: A Promise to the Listener Who Arrives Late
From frog calls to Elizabeth Cotten and Doc Watson, the enduring value of a catalogue that keeps its doors open.
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Film & Home Cinema
Films, soundtracks and the moments worth watching again.
Chungking Express
Maroon Audio Journal · Film · 16 October 2026 Janus Films restoration poster, not the original 1994 release poster. 1994 · Hong Kong · 102 minutes (Janus…
中文 Read articleThe Red Balloon: The Art of Being Followed
Albert Lamorisse gives a balloon the freedom to become a friend. A closer look at family, colour, sound and the Paris streets that make his 1956 film…
中文 Read articleThe Third Man: A City Off Balance, a Tune That Keeps Walking
How Carol Reed, Robert Krasker and Anton Karas turned postwar Vienna into an unforgettable meeting of unstable images and deceptively buoyant music.
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A Man Escaped: The Sounds That Make a Way Out
A spoon scrapes wood. The work must continue, but every repetition might betray the worker. In Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped, listening is never an optional accompaniment…
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Bicycle Thieves: The Cost of a Day’s Work
A job is waiting for Antonio Ricci, provided he can supply a bicycle. That small condition sets the scale of Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 drama…
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Amadeus: When Listening Becomes the Drama
How Miloš Forman, Peter Shaffer and Neville Marriner turned Mozart’s music into the living force of a film about admiration, envy and the difficulty of listening.
中文 Read article03 / Practical audio & amplifier engineering
Audio Systems & Technology
Speaker and amplifier matching, Maroon Audio products and the technologies behind them.
How Much Amplifier Power Do You Really Need?
A practical guide to speaker sensitivity, listening distance, headroom, power ratings, and why amplifier watts are not a simple speaker-matching formula.
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How Modern Class D Amplifiers Have Improved
How modern Class D amplifiers use feedback and error control, and why power, distortion, noise, and loudspeaker loads need their test conditions.
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Class D Does Not Mean Digital: Analog Inputs and Preamp Matching
Why Class D does not mean digital audio input. Understand Maroon analog-input power amplifiers, gain, volume control, and preamp or AV processor matching.
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Understanding Hypex: From UcD to NCORE and NCOREx
Explore Hypex UcD, NCORE, and NCOREx, including self-oscillation, post-filter feedback, input buffers, and the role of complete-amplifier design.
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Understanding Purifi: Why Eigentakt Focuses on Error Control
Understand Purifi Eigentakt, output-inductor distortion, feedback, second-generation modules, and the distinction between module and amplifier specifications.
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Bruno Putzeys: Bringing Class D to the Heart of High-End Audio
From an old tube amplifier to UcD, NCORE, and Purifi Eigentakt: the ideas, turning points, and engineering approach behind Bruno Putzeys’ career.
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Industry News & Emerging Technology
Industry news and emerging developments across Hi-Fi, AV and projection technology.
XGIMI HORIZON 30: What Matters Before the Lights Go Down
XGIMI’s HORIZON 30 launch explained through room placement, 24fps film cadence, mode-specific brightness and sound-system connections.
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