March - April 2015
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Audio Discourse
Dynamic Design Heritage Challenger AE15 Digital Power Cord
Power cords are a specialty within the category of audiophile connectivity that is mighty important. Those supplied with the gear, regardless of price,...
AK500N The Ultimate MQS Network Audio Player
I would have called this a Quicky, but lets bump it up to a First Look in honor of Astell&Kern's top effort to date to create a network server,...
Mourning One of Our Industry's Founding Fathers, John Ulrick
John Ulrick on the cover of Positive Feedback, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1996 Today I mourn the passing of a good friend and one of the men who helped found the...
Musings on Building a Digital Music Server: Catching Up on...
"A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth you said that irony was the shackles of youth you wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh I never...
The Early Annals of High-end Audio, Rediscovered
Everyone takes the limits of their own vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer DEDICATION To J. Gordon Holt and Harry...
A Factory Tour In The Enchanting Foothills Of Arizona -...
Petra and Dan D'Agostino are two of the rare ones. Yes, Dan's legacy is firmly locked in place after Krell Industries and now his Dan...
Hardware Reviews
cruzefirst Maestro M1 Power Cables
Aftermarket power cables are a variety of audio product that generally raises the eyebrows of many a hobbyist. I can't offer any technical...
Raven Audio Shadow Reference Stereo Amplifier
As I was contemplating where to start this review of the Raven Audio Shadow Reference Stereo amp, the words 'natural ease' popped into my head....
Accuphase DP-720 SACD Player
Music servers… audio streaming. Every club needs the next New Thing to survive and grow. At this juncture in the second decade of the new...
AudioEngine B2 Powered Bluetooth Speaker
My listening room is in my basement, and although you can easily open the door to the downstairs and hear the music from the big system in all its...
Magenta FZ47DB Phono Amplifier
I was shocked, yes shocked to see albums, yes genuine vinyl, being sold at Fry's Electronics, Urban Outfitters and shock of all shocks, Barnes...
Audionet MAX Amplifiers
(Including an interview with Thomas Gessler, CEO of Audionet) What's that? Things formerly unheard are stirring down below... Some time ago I...
Interviews
Interview with Jim Hagerman
Q. What is your background in electronics and how long have you been designing audio circuits? A. I have been designing electronics for a solid 33...
Music Reviews
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert in 3 Channel...
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert Photo: Courtesy of Acoustic Sounds Sometimes, the best things are worth waiting for. That's...
Impressions: Dean Martin, Dream with Dean: The Intimate Dean...
Dean Martin, Dream with Dean: The Intimate Dean Martin Analogue Productions, QRP 200 gram LP, stereo, 45 RPM (2 LP set), USD $50 You know, it really...
Frank Bridge - Orchestral Works, Volume 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 9959. TT: 75.48. Enter Spring. Isabella. Two Poems for Orchestra. Mid of the...
Pearson Sound Comes Knockin' with Self-Titled LP
OK, straight outta the gate: Pearson Sound is not for everyone. Especially not all PF readers! If you're a fan of hard-hitting,...
Notes of an Amateur: Schumann, Vivaldi, Silvestrov, and Bruckner
Robert Schumann, Violin Concerto; Piano Trio No. 3. Isabelle Faust, violin; Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello; Alexander Melnikov, piano. Harmonia Mundi. HMC...
Impressions: Analogue Productions re-issue of Duke Ellington,...
Duke Ellington, Masterpieces by Ellington 200 Gram LP, monophonic, $30. Years ago, a good friend sent me a vintage copy of Duke...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Kora Titan Amplifiers
This article, by Carol Clark, Dave Clark, Larry Cox, and Francisco Duran, originally ran when audioMUSINGS was in print - Issue 3, 1998. Tubes, tubes,...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
iFi Audio STEREO 50 + LS3.5 - Integrated amplifier/DAC +...
It's hard to take eyes off new iFi products. This British company using logos, letters and design that all look like taken from Luxman, Leak, or...
Oyaide ACROSS 750 RR V2, TUNAMI II SP-B V2 and TUNAMI GPX-R V2 -...
It must be a real shock for a company that uses some particular material as a key element for its products when it learns that it won't be...
Lumïn S1 - Audiophile Network Music Player
The world today relies on charts and measurements and results. And while audiophilia tries hard not to follow the mainstream, pointing out its...
Thrax Audio - TERES + LYRA Power amplifier + loudspeakers
To be honest I can't remember how it started. In my own review of Dionysos preamplifier for January 2011 I wrote that I'd firstly...
Gigawatt PC-4 EVO + LS-2 - Power Conditioner + Power Cable
One can wonder why so many people at certain age start using expression "I remember that..." more and more often. I can not not remember that...
Trilogy 925 - Integrated Amplifier
As I already mentioned once (in the review of Wow Audio Lab L1/M1 amplifier), Audio Show in Warsaw is a place for me to collect information....
Show Reports
2015 CES - A Yellow Brick Road Of Integrated Amplifiers
If you have been following my reviews over the last few years, I have taken a considerable interest in integrated amplifiers. This includes those from...
RMAF 2014 - An Emotional Respite From What Ails You
RMAF. One of the best times ever. Ever. Since it started and till now, an event we have always looked forward to attending—together. People....
