January - February 2021
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Audio Discourse
Graham Audio Chartwell LS6 Loudspeaker
We are blessed once again by some fine reflections from our good friend and brother, John Marks, he of The Tannhauser Gate fame. This time around we...
How to Solve "The Audiophile Problem": Roger Skoff Writes What...
If you're a serious audiophile, one of the things you can be certain of is that you're eventually going to have a problem. If you're lucky, it might...
Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2020, Part the Fifth...
No, not quite done yet. RSX Technologies MAX Power Cable and the RSX Technologies Power8 Multi-Outlet Power Box The RSX Technologies MAX Power Cable....
Noam Sivan: Improvisations upon the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
I am indebted to David P. Goldman‘s wonderful Tablet magazine article on the place of classical music in Israeli society for introducing me to...
Network Acoustics' ENO
Okay so I have always been about removing or filtering out "noise" or whatever crap is in the signal or wherever… stuff that can cloud or obscure the...
Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2020, Part the Fourth
Yon Editor, contemplating... Photograph by John Robinson; image processing by David W. Robinson. Here's the fourth installment of my Brutus Awards for...
Hardware Reviews
The Pass Labs XP-17 Phono Preamplifier: Wayne’s World!
I was really impressed by the Pass Labs XP-12 line-level preamplifier that I wrote about in Positive Feedback Issue 111 (HERE), and I have been looking...
Enhanced System Performance with AudioQuest Niagara Power...
I've talked here at intervals over the last couple of years about a variety of system enhancements I've employed at my home with the goal of improving...
the art of listening: VLOT Loudspeakers – Maybe the Best...
the art of listening… for art's sake – the art of listening to music including hi-res audio, MQA, DSD and 5.1 surround sound A recent product from...
The Pass Labs X250.8 - An Elite Heavyweight Among Amplifiers
Years ago as news editor for the Cyber Boxing Zone, I witnessed the special veneration that insiders held for the late Emanuel Steward, a boxing...
Mojo Mystique EVO B4B 21 DAC - 2021 Version
World Premiere Review! It sounds like music. Review By Dr. Matt Clott With this article, Positive Feedback continues its content-sharing relationship...
The IsoAcoustics GAIA I Speaker Isolators – Superb Performance...
I have a great deal of respect for isolation devices, though certain caveats should always be considered. I have reviewed and/or owned some of the most...
Interviews
A Conversation with Tom Peeters, Cobra Records
You know how certain record labels become favorites that you come back to again and again? For me, it comes from a developing trust in the label and...
An Interview with Andreas Spreer of TACET Musikproduktion
TACET a musical term to indicate that an instrument or voice does not sound, also known as rest. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacet date...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 24
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 156. Jackie McLean, It's Time!. Blue Note – BST 84179 (1965), Tone Poet Series...
Music Reviews
More Gems from Just Listen Records
I wrote enthusiastically about Just Listen Records a couple months ago (HERE). We were impressed by what this label was accomplishing, and we've been...
Oh Yes, Count Me a Fan of the Double Bass
Reports From The Low Country, Rick Stotijn (double bass), Channel Classics (2019 DSD256, DXD) (HERE) When a master plays, the double bass is one of the...
A New One Step Benchmark: Patricia Barber, Café Blue
Patricia Barber remains one of my favorite contemporary jazz artists—both in the studio and live. Yes, her recordings are renowned for their sound...
Open Your Ears with this 12-Minute EP from TRPTK
Droplets II, Christiaan Richter, TRPTK (2020 DXD) (HERE) Live from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Hall, it's an ear-opening extravaganza with a single...
Stunning Binaural Recordings from Tom Peeters at Cobra Records,...
If you listen via headphones or earbuds, you need some good binaural recordings in your music library. Binaural listening is the only way we get to...
Notes of an Amateur: Jennifer's Koh's Bach; Gardiner's Handel;...
As I get older, as I said a year or so ago when I started getting older, I find myself less inclined to talk, more inclined to drop a few notes and...
Show Reports
Audio Show Flashback: CES 2003
Until there are some new shows to attend, we continue our look back at shows from years gone by. For many, many years, audio industry folks from around...
