January - February 2024
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Audio Discourse
Stu's Place - Ice Age Audio Power Cords, Interconnects and...
Intro - Some New Toys at Stu's It's been a while. Over two years by my reckoning. There's been a lot going on in my world, but hidden away, deep in my...
Simplicity Offers a Lot of Possibilities
About the fact that what is simple is better than what is complex. But also about the fact that thoughtless simplifying is a mistake. Listening to...
the audio analyst© Episode 160: Vienna - Chasing Beethoven
My fascination with and appreciation of Beethoven's work began even before my relatively formal introduction to his vast body of work and influence on...
Impressions: Portraits from AXPONA 2023, a Gallery
As I explained many months ago last May in Issue 127, my 2023 show impressions for both AXPONA and Pacific Audio Fest were derailed and terribly...
Is It Really All BS? Part 1
Roger Skoff, President of RSX Technologies, at the LAOC Audio Society Gala, December 2023 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger...
Waters on the Hardware: The Vivid Audio Kaya 45 and Kaya 90...
Dean Waters with cigar: a portrait at Pacific Audio Fest 2023 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) The Vivid Audio Kaya 90...
Hardware Reviews
Quad Revela 2 Loudspeaker
For the last few years I've been audio lucky. Fat and happy while discovering new music on Qobuz augmented by the convenience of Roon, or listening to...
Topping A90 Discrete Preamplifier/Headphone Amp Offers...
Mid last year, I reviewed the Topping E70 Velvet DAC, which is a Delta-Sigma design that in my view offered astounding performance at a surprisingly...
Richard Gray's Power Company RGPC 1200 Custom Solution for Max...
We've all heard horror stories of stereos destroyed by electrical storms and events. Towards that end, many of us use surge protectors or power...
Puron AC Power Conditioners, Now with Worldwide Distribution by...
There are two recent observations I've made in high-end audio: 1) There are plenty of relatively inexpensive devices that can add significantly to your...
Aidas Mammoth Gold Moving Coil Stereo Cartridge
Phono cartridges, like musical instruments, use their body's resonance to influence the unique character of their sound. The cartridge body holds the.... . . Read More »
Vera-Fi Audio's Vanguard Caldera 10 Subwoofer
Back in 1984, before all the cool old independent hi-fi shops started vanishing into oblivion, there was a nice older dealer in northwest Atlanta...
Interviews
A Conversation with Jared Sacks, Channel Classics
Republished from January - February 2021 I wrote about Jared Sacks and Channel Classics this past fall, focusing on several recordings which I find...
Music Reviews
Violent Femmes 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition on 180 Gram LPs...
On March 1st, Craft Recordings is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the eponymous debut record from folk/punk pioneers Violent Femmes with a new box...
Collective Soul's 7even Year Itch: Greatest Hits 1994-2001 now...
Craft Recordings celebrates the 30th anniversary of southern alternative rockers Collective Soul with their reissue of the band's 7even Year Itch:...
Calcutta! by Lawrence Welk
It's time for a confession: I enjoy the album Calcutta! (Dot DLP 25359) by Lawrence Welk (1903-1992). Honestly, there's an awful lot to like on this...
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 19 - HDTT Adds New Bundles of Joy
Bob Witrak of HDTT keeps mining the hills for superb vintage recordings on both tape and LP to release in high resolution digital. And new recordings...
A Six Pack Of Superb LP Releases From Analogue Productions,...
Dire Straits, On Every Street. Mofi (45 RPM) Highly underrated and one of my favorite Dire Straits studio albums, On Every Street was released in 1991...
The Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain, Finally Reissued on a...
Impex Records has just released a newly remastered LP reissue of Elephant Mountain, the 1969 RCA label neglected classic from folk-rock group The...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
From Our NOS Files: "The Higher End – SACD: Mic Feeds and...
From Positive Feedback, Volume 8, No. 1, late winter 1998/early spring of 1999... For the record, I have not changed my appraisal of DSD and SACD...
An Evaluation of Vinyl Re-issues and the Companies Doing Them...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print but you are also going to see some articles from our early days of going online. Original text and...
If it Sounds Good, it IS Good
This article by Dan Wright of ModWright originally ran in Positive Feedback ISSUE 4 December/January 2003, so while we call this section "New Old...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E172: AXPONA -The Largest Audio Show in North America
This most recent AXPONA – which is an acronym made from Audio eXPO NOrth America, was held Friday, April 12th through Sunday, April 14th, marking its.... . . Read More »
E171: Southwest Audiofest 2024-Best Rooms-Acora Acoustics &...
Today I’m going to bring you the fourth and final of my top five rooms videos from the Southwest Audiofest. Today, we’ll visit the enormous.... . . Read More »
E170: Introducing the KRONOS Audio Perpetual Turntable &...
This week, while I’ll be enjoying the final day of AXPONA 2024 when this episode initially drops, I wanted to share something particularly remarkable.... . . Read More »
E169: Southwest Audio Fest 2024-Best Rooms-JMF/Audio Skies/Scott...
This week, we’ll take a look at and listen to the Cooper Room, as it was set up at the Anatole Hilton during the first Southwest Audio Fest. This.... . . Read More »
E168: Southwest Audiofest 2024-Best Rooms-Genesis Advanced...
Last week, I took some extra time to familiarize you with the absolutely amazing venue that hosted the inaugural Southwest Audio Fest before sharing.... . . Read More »
E163: Ideon's Absolute Digital Suite
Today we take a close look at the synergies leveraged when using this entire suite of the exceptional Ideon Absolute series, the Stream.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
TiGLON MS-DR20A Azure Dragon AC Power Cable
PREMIERE The Japanese company TiGLON was founded in 2008. Initially named Kryna Pro, it changed its name to TiGLON in 2010. Its founder and chief...
Mola Mola Lupe Phono stage
The Dutch company Mola Mola was founded in 2012. Its founders were Bruno Putzeys and Jan-Peter van Amerongen; both knew each other from their work for...
J. Sikora 12" Tonearm
The J. Sikora company was established in 2007. That's when its first turntable, the standard, was presented. It took as many as seven years to prepare...
Show Reports
Capital Audiofest 2023
It's that time of year again and the Capital Audiofest has come around and an awful lot of people went to it. An awful lot of people; it was just...
