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Audio firm banks on custom microphones for market edge

November 9, 2025 - 12:00am

Audiophile Components Inc. is testing whether customization can drive higher margins in the professional audio market by launching a personalization program for Shure microphone models, which have long dominated...

Business

Some like it hot

By Val A. Villanueva | March 8, 2009 - 12:00am

When you shop for vinyl in various flea and high end markets, you realize that record-collecting, like life (to quote Forrest Gump) “is just like a box of chocolates.

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Music is magic

By Val A. Villanueva | August 3, 2008 - 12:00am

It’s been almost two years since I began writing this column for The STAR, and the experience has been awesome, to say the least. I have gained new friends and got re-acquainted with old ones.

Sunday Lifestyle