March - April 2016
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Audio Discourse
My Life in Music, by Joe Cohen
[Joe Cohen is a long-time friend of Positive Feedback, and owner of The Lotus Group, a high-end audio company in California. Joe is married to the Jazz...
From The Kipnis Studios (KSS™) – The ART of...
Music & Film, Audio & Video, Learning & Understanding, Art & Life: "The Soundtrack" – A musical accompaniment created by the Gods!...
Adventures in Cabling
Want to start an argument with your audiophile friends? Tell them cables don't make a difference in sound. Or conversely, tell them cables do make a...
Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Four
Zu Audio: divine, evil, beautiful, disgusting; Or, "Careful with that tone, mister." So what kind of sound are you after? Accurate? Musical? Okay. But...
Star Wars Comes to DSD and Analog Tape
Star Wars Original Soundtracks in Stereo DSD and Analog Tape Horch House has released the first three original soundtracks from the Star Wars Series:...
The Aurender N100H and The Well-Rumored Death of the Mac mini
"Help!" —The Beatles In memory of Lee Weiland, the man who introduced me to the concept of a digital music server and whose Locus Design cables I...
Hardware Reviews
JPLAY for Windows: The Final Piece of the Puzzle?
Earlier this year I reviewed Fidelizer, an optimization software package designed to reduce the number of active background processes in Windows...
Wells Audio Majestic Amplifier
I'm not going to tell you what I did on my summer vacation. (Maui) I'm not going to tell you what I got for Christmas. (Schiit Audio Vali 2). I am...
Aurender N10 Music Server
My recent reviews for the Devialet 400 and 800 Integrated Amplifiers generated plenty of emails and comments. Thanks to all the readers who took notice...
Audio Tekne TFA 9501 Linestage, TEA 9501 Phonostage, and TM 9502...
It so happened that together with some friends we delivered the Audio Tekne system I reviewed before directly to the Audio Video Show 2015. As soon...
The Atma-Sphere Ultraviolet UV-1 Preamplifier
Dateline St. Paul, Minnesota: Today, audio engineers observed an invisible sonic wave emanating from Atma-Sphere in St. Paul. The engineer who first...
David Power Cables from Enklein
HEADLINE: Rubinstein Bested by 24-Year-Old Russian Prodigy "Where are the great artists of contemporary classical music?" The question is not...
Interviews
Interview: The Editors Series - Michael Lavorgna
If you return to previous interviews with journalists that I have conducted as part of "The Editors" series, you will find out that they represent both...
Music Reviews
Notes of an Amateur: Schnittke, Tchaikovsky, Jessica Lee.
Schnittke, Penitential Psalms; Three Sacred Hymns. RIAS Kammerch0r, Hans Christian Rademann, conductor. Harmonia Mundi 902225. Russian Alfred Schnittke...
Anne Bisson: Blue Mind An Audiophile Favorite is Given a...
Anne Bisson: Blue Mind, Co-sponsored by Wuti Larnroongroj, Brilliance Music and Studios and Gary Koh, Genesis Advanced Technologies. 15-ips, 2-track,...
Kinsky, Copula Mundi
Kinsky, Copula Mundi. SPV Poland/Requiem Records 104 | 2015. Premiere: 1993. Re-edition: 2015. Medium: Compact Disc The Kinsky band, which was...
Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conducts Bruckner
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor, "Wagner" (Nowak ed., 1877) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Nikolaus Harnoncourt Teldec 4509-98405-2. TT:...
Notes of an Amateur: Handel's Water Music; Music@Menlo 'Live'...
George Frederick Handel, Water Music. Academie fur Alte Musik Berlin. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902216. Handel was German, but he was also a Londoner for 47...
Brief Impressions: HDTracks’ City of the Sun, to the sun and...
All of us who love music and audio have some sort of history that goes way back into our past. In my case, it was my Dad's love of all things classical...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
MSB Link DAC II
This article, by Dave Clark, Larry Cox, Francisco Duran, and Lauren Stephens originally ran when audioMUSINGS was in print - Issue 10, 2000. ...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
ENYA Dark Sky Island
Label: Aigle Music | Universal Music UK/Warner Music Japan WPCR-17045 Released: Nov. 20th 2015 Format: Mini LP CD Dark Sky Island is the 8th studio...
Curious Cables USB Cable
How our memory works is still a mystery. We know where memories are stored, we can literally point out parts of our brain responsible for that. But the...
AudioPax l50 Preamplifier and m50 Power Amplifier
This is one of those tests I've been wanting to do for a few years; but it kept being postponed and at one stage it seemed like it would never happen....
Show Reports
CanJam SoCal 2016 - Behind the Booths and Back
A Personal Audio Odyssey Dan Wrights ModWright Tryst headphone amp was stunningly musical & engaging. CanJam SoCal 2016 was a very special time.... . . Read More »
AES 2015 New York Awards
Best Sound in Show The 78 project brought in a live acoustic band, Sean Walsh and Ray Williams, sat them down in the conference room, stuck a...
