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AUDIO FILE
Glad Rag Doll
by Val A. Villanueva - February 10, 2013 - 12:00am
For someone who has carved her niche in the elite group of jazz artists after selling more than 15 million albums worldwide, did Canadian singer-pianist Diana Krall really need to show some flesh on the cover of...
Christmas past
by Val A. Villanueva - December 23, 2012 - 12:00am
It still feels like summer! The heat is made worse by the nerve-wracking Christmas traffic rush.
My way
by Val A. Villanueva - May 10, 2008 - 12:00am
All that jazz
by Val A. Villanueva - March 15, 2008 - 12:00am
All the things you are
by Val A. Villanueva - February 16, 2008 - 12:00am
Dead man’s curve
by Val A. Villanueva - February 2, 2008 - 12:00am
Only yesterday
by Val A. Villanueva - October 6, 2007 - 12:00am
The revival of vacuum tubes, horn speakers, and turntables to amplify sound has spawned upgraded designs based on old schematic platforms. Sleek and shiny analog gears have suddenly sprouted in the marketplace, and...
She’s my kinda girl
by Val A. Villanueva - July 21, 2007 - 12:00am
Pump up the volume
by AUDIO FILE By Val A. Villanueva - April 14, 2007 - 12:00am
Some members of the Philippine chapter of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) invited me for coffee two Thursdays ago through a friend, Andrew Sevilla, who also happens to be an AES member of good standing....
Pump up the volume
by AUDIO FILE By Val A. Villanueva - March 31, 2007 - 12:00am
Some members of the Philippine chapter of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) invited me for coffee two Thursdays ago through a friend, Andrew Sevilla, who also happens to be an AES member of good standing....
Squeaky clean
by AUDIO FILE By M. Val A. Villanueva - February 17, 2007 - 12:00am
Compared with CDs, vinyl records are said to be noisy and expensive to maintain. These are just two of the many largely unfounded arguments against this music format and have become the prime selling point...
That dog Nipper
by AUDIO FILE By M. Val A. Villanueva - January 27, 2007 - 12:00am
In 1887, Thomas Alva Edison shocked the world when he introduced the phonograph, a machine which recorded and played back sound. But a dog, named Nipper, outdid Edison’s feat, when the 80-percent bull...
Listen to the music
by AUDIO FILE By M. Val A. Villanueva - December 2, 2006 - 12:00am
It was a pleasant surprise to see Ayala Corp.’s top honcho, Jaime Zobel de Ayala, at the recent Hi-Fi Show held on November 11 and 12 at the Manila Mandarin Hotel. As I shook his hand, I asked him if...
We've only just begun
by AUDIO FILE By M. Val A. Villanueva - November 18, 2006 - 12:00am
Many thanks to those who sent me words of encouragement and to my loyal readers who have followed my journey to the Philippine STAR. Getting a lot of feedback for somebody who has just warmed up his seat...
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