July - August 2017
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Audio Discourse
Equipment for Making Archival Digital Copies of an LP, Part 3:...
This is the third installment of John Marks' very helpful series that guides our readers through various aspects and considerations for digitizing...
Equipment for Making Archival Digital Copies of an LP, Part 2: ...
Herein we have part two of our good audio friend John Marks, he of The Tannhauser Gate blogging fame, in which he continues his series on...
Equipment for Making Archival Digital Copies of an LP, Part 1
This is a fascinating new series from our good friend John Marks, editor of The Tannhauser Gate. In it, John proposes to provide a reasonably simple...
An Adventure in the Art of Tone with the Duelund Coherent Audio...
Back in Issue 88 of Positive Feedback I wrote about the Duelund Coherent Audio DCA16GA tinned-copper audio cable that I've been using for building...
From Digital to Digital: Converting a Library from Spinning...
Bricasti Design surpasses their already world-class performance with a new Network Player option for the M1 DAC. Since the Network Player provides an...
Coming Up! Monterey Jazz Bash @ 60
Monterey CA, September 15 – 17, 2017 One of this legendary jazz festival's most star-studded line ups will drive energy and sheer musical glory to...
Hardware Reviews
KR Audio P-135 Preamplifier
The little preamplifier that could? KR Audio is the now relatively well known Czech amplifier brand that made its name on very big, and big sounding,...
Core Power Technologies EQUI=CORE 300
Image courtesy of Tweek Geek Power conditioners are an essential part of a high fidelity audio system. The reproduction of musical sounds in our homes...
Elac Discovery Music Server
Computer audio is a little bit like Sauron's "Ring." It promises audiophiles control over their digital files, easier access to information about the...
Accuphase DP-560 Super Audio CD Player
The Compact Disc player launched some time ago by the Norwegian Hegel Audio company was called the Mohican. It is a clear allusion to The Last of the...
World Premiere Review of the Grado Epoch Phono Cartridge
The Grado Epoch Phono Cartridge has become available this August, 2017, and takes its place as Grado's supreme cartridge offering. With my hands-on...
Studio Electric FS1 Loudspeakers
I've used the same pair of speakers for 22 years. (And they still surprise me.) They're nameless and were made for me by Richard Marsh: a pair of...
Interviews
An Interview with Dan D'Agostino
Dan D'Agostino is a name that is nearly synonymous with high end audio. As the founder of Krell, Dan pioneered the development of high powered, Class...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 4
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations. "Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"... 31. The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's...
Music Reviews
3Divas
DIVA 3DCD-2017, CD $17.99, available at http://divajazz.com/sights-and-sounds/recordings/3divas_cd/ Should it matter that the music you're listening to...
Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab UD1S 2-002 Box (2017, June), #2103 of 3000. Originally released on...
Mephisto & Co.
LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (with two concert endings). MUSSORGSKY: Night on Bald Mountain. LIADOV: Baba Yaga. FRANCK: The Accursed Huntsman. DUKAS:...
Notes of an Amateur: Osorio Plays Brahms and Schubert;...
Jorge Federico Osorio, Final Thoughts. Last Piano Works of Schubert and Brahms. Çedille CDR 90000171. I grew up on the music of the late nineteenth...
The Secret Sisters, You Don't Own Me Anymore
New West Records BO6XPTH66X, LP $20.98, Amazon.com When it comes to harmonizing singers, who's your favorite group? The Beach Boys? Crosby, Stills,...
Joel Fredericksen and Ensemble Phoenix Munich, Requiem for a...
Good friend John Marks once again shares with PF readers the rich trove of musical discoveries that he shelters at his blog site, The Tannhauser...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
The Lowther Medallion II Loudspeakers
This article, by Jeff Silverstein, originally ran when Positive Feedback was in print - Vol. 8, No. 2, 1999. I miss my Lowther Medallion II...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Fidata HFAS1-S10U Network Server/Files Player
I believe that the hottest word recently used by people listening to decent quality music is Tidal. Tidal is a paid streaming service offering music...
Accuphase DP-560 Super Audio CD Player
The Compact Disc player launched some time ago by the Norwegian Hegel Audio company was called the Mohican. It is a clear allusion to The Last of the...
Acoustic Revive RAS-14 Triple-C and RPC-1
The bad is a magical space Whispers screams and laughter There is room for happiness There is room for sin It's an island of pleasure A sea of...
Show Reports
Klipsch Pilgrimage, 2017 - A Story About Speakers, People, and...
by Dave Mallette with assistance from Robert Schryer In 2014, a dozen of us from the Klipsch Community Internet forum held our first, the first,...
Los Angeles Audio Show Part Five
Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Five. ELAC. Stellar speakers for $6k a pair. MBL radialstrahler loudspeakers, new...
Munich High End 2017 - The Greatest Audio Show on Earth?
Bavarian Spring My flight landed at Flughafen München in Munich, the Bavarian capital and third most populous city in Germany, exactly on time,...
