July - August 2014
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Audio Discourse
The UFO-DSD Special Edition Has Landed
During The Show in Newport Beach in May, I was walking in the parking lot between the two hotels that host the event when I spotted Cookie...
The Neoteric Listener and the Schiit Lyr2, Bifrost Uber DAC, and...
Thank goodness for Michael Mercer. While other Positive Feedback writers cover headphones, DACs, and amps (Warren Chi, Bob Levi, and our...
The Absolute Sound's Illustrated History of High-End Audio,...
When I saw the promotional material announcing this book project from The Absolute Sound and learned that it was first going to be available in...
Impressions: The PS Audio DirectStream DSD DAC
Some things take a long time to write. Some things come easy. And not everything is War and Peace. So this is not going to be a...
The Big 7, and a Chat with the Lampizator
Lukasz Fikus of Lampizator One of the newer companies making Digital to Analog Converters (DACs) in the audio world is Lampizator. The name comes from...
Duelund Coherent Audio from Denmark: The Duelund-WRSE Project,...
The Duelund Coherent Audio/Tannoy Westminster Royal Special Edition Project article I wrote for Issue 70 of Positive Feedback was the most fun I've...
Hardware Reviews
Red Dragon Audio M500 and M1000 MkII Amplifiers
Here We Go Again Over many years I've endured hope and disappointment in the service of auditioning and evaluating loud speakers of virtually every...
Grado PS1000e Headphones
Grado has done it again! I liked the original PS 1000 Headphones at $1695 when I first heard them. I am overwhelmed by the new and super-improved...
Primaluna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier - The Real Deal
Driving North The road from San Diego to Upland, east of Los Angeles, is both circuitous and a relief from decades of treks straight north up Route 5...
Avanti Audio Allegro Cables - Big League, Top Flight, No BS...
I Never Said This Before Imagine the first time your youthful lust for innocent attachment to a mate of some sort, form or beguiling presence clocked...
Ypsilon PST 100MKII Preamplifier
Before I slip on the green eyeshade, I want to compliment the Ypsilon PST 100 Preamp on the sheer creature comfort of its musical presentation. I had...
Manley Chinook Phono Preamplifier
After reviewing several pieces of high-end audio gear lately that arrived at my house in plain cardboard boxes, marginally adequate packing materials...
Interviews
David Robinson and David Elias on DSD... Interviewed by Steve...
Enjoy the Music.TV's interview with David W. Robinson of Positive Feedback magazine and singer/musician/songwriter David Elias. Hosted by...
Music Reviews
Classical Releases
Antonin Dvorak, Symphony No.8. Leos Janacek. Jenufa Symphonic Suite. Orchestra: Pittsburg Symphony. Conductor: Manfred Honeck. Reference Recordings...
Fhloston Paradigm, The Phoenix
I love it when an albums' sound is so fresh and mysterious it challenges my ability to classify it. My dear friend and editor Dave Clark...
Nothing but the Music - Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 7 Inch...
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, Island/Victor Entertainment VICP-78001 (1970/2014) TARKUS, Island/Victor Entertainment VICP-78002 (1971/2014) PICTURES AT...
Eno & Hyde, High Life
Eno & Hyde have never missed as far as I'm concerned. That's a true rarity. Actually, I can't think of any other cooperative artists...
The Future is Here - Audio Still Rules
Blu-ray recordings may be video, audio or most commonly video plus audio. If the video is a distraction turn it off though I would suggest watching the...
Notes of an Amateur: Zemetsov, Viola; Pacifica Quartet and...
Dana Zemetsov, Enigma. Works of Solo Viola. [Kreisler, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Kugel, Penderecki, JS Bach] Channel Classics CCSSA 35714. We come...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
An Interview with John Marks - "The Editors" series
Have a look at the pictures in John Marks' listening room. What do you see? What caught your attention? I was struck by the ubiquity of records and the...
Thrax Maximinus D/A Converter + Dionysos Preamplifier +...
Rumen Artarski is a hunk of a man. Tall, handsome and ramrod-straight. He could serve in Special Forces or join the Honor Guard. He could be a...
Albedo Aptica Loudspeakers
In a large, superbly designed and printed book titled The Absolute Sound's Illustrated History of High-End Audio dedicated to loudspeakers, we will...
Krakow Sonic Society, Meeting No. 93 - Audiodesksysteme Gläß,...
How the Kiss Gained its Polish The 93rd meeting of the Krakow Sonic Society has been arranged at the request of wykop.pl and related web portals. This...
Pylon Audio Pearl 25 Loudspeakers
Tonsil, a former giant and the largest manufacturer of drivers and loudspeakers in this part of Europe, located in the Polish town of Wrzesnia, has...
Thales TTT Compact Turntable, Levi-Base, and Simplicity Mk2...
The Air Force One turntable from the Japanese manufacturer TechDAS that I reviewed in March was a true revelation to me and its presence in my system...
Show Reports
Monterey Jazz @ 57 - Herbie Hancock: Lifting Our Spirits Once...
Last year, in May, the remarkable (truly without equal) Herbie Hancock gave the commencement address at Soka University, where I teach humanities and...
2014 Capital Audiofest
The Capital Audiofest is one of the few true high-end audio shows left in the world, and as the industry shrinks all of these shows become more and...
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Live
Nick Cave. The man. The legend. To those who know him, he needs little introduction. He has been steadily churning out his own brand of beautifully...
Newport THE Show 2014 - A Pictorial Essay of Sorts... Part 4
Bill Leebens. Jim Aud. EveAnna Manley. Knut Skogrand. Din Johnson of Ristretto Roasters. Andy Regan of Jerry Harvey Audio. Johan Coorg of KEF ESS Labs...
Newport THE Show 2014 - A Pictorial Essay of Sorts... Part 3
One of the Audio Skies's rooms featuring Larsen speakers, Pear Audio Analogue, and Gamut. Walker Aduio showing Slient Source Cables, Raidho...
T.H.E. Show Newport 2014
I realize that for many years I've opened my various show reports with a little rant of sorts, carrying on about things that bother me about the...
