March - April 2018
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Audio Discourse
Impressions: The Sound Galleries SGM2015 – Chapter 2, with...
Ye Olde Editor contemplating the mysteries of life and audio… (Photograph by John Robinson) Back in the winter of 2017 (HERE in Issue 94), I shared...
Gold Note PH-10 Phono: EU EQ OK for US LPs?
Gang tackling is not usually part of the gameplan around team Positive Feedback, but if you are a fan of phono stages, you will note that I am the...
The New Apartment Lounge: Piercing the Electroacoustic Veil with...
Will Wonders Never Cease A recurring nightmare haunts my dreams. In the nightmare, some guy named Bill Parish of GTT Audio continually harasses me with...
Impressions: The Pear Audio Blue Kid Thomas Turntable/Cornet 2...
Image courtesy of Pear Audio Blue Damnation. Time is sand through the fingers, crap through the goose. Projects pile up, deadlines come and go, and the...
Hanging with the Chads - A Rega(l) Experience
As I mentioned when I introduced myself to this journal, I'm a rookie when it comes to high tech audio equipment—but I'm a fast learner. And l have...
Audiophile Decorating: Making the Listening Room Sing
Exordium I've been a lover of music and audio for as long as I can remember. I didn't really recognize myself as an "audiophile;" but from my first 45...
Hardware Reviews
Tekton Double Impact - Adventures with High Sensitivity
This article will be a departure from my normal format for reviewing audio components. The Tekton Design Double Impact speakers came to me by way of...
SweetVinyl SugarCube SC-1 Hi-Res All-In-One Vinyl Noise Removal...
Having covered audio shows for many decades now, I have learned to take it with a pinch of salt when I hear exhibitors bandy about words like...
First Take: The Bakoon International AMP-41 Amplifier
Just about ten years ago, when I first started writing the Neoteric Listener column for Positive Feedback, editors Dave and Carol Clark invited me to...
Vanatoo Transparent Zero Loudspeakers
I first heard the Vanatoo Transparent Zero (T0) speakers at the Los Angeles Audio Show last year and was immediately smitten. The sound quality I was...
Einstein The Pure Loudspeaker
Linn did it. Meridian has also done it. So have Naim, Avantgarde, Burmester, Gryphon, and a host of other brands, mostly hailing back to great European...
Ryan Tinsel Rackit-Compatible LP Storage Racks
Back in November I published a review of the 33 Rackit Modular Record Storage Unit, a replacement for the original Per Madsen LP racks. Afterward, I...
Interviews
An Interview With HiFi Legend Nelson Pass
Nelson Pass formed his first audio company with a friend while studying physics at the University of California-Davis in the early 1970s. He went on to.... . . Read More »
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 7
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations. 56. Borodin, Symphony no.2 / Rimsky-Korsakoff – Capriccio Espagnole The London...
Music Reviews
The Celebration of the Art of Music - The Rembrandt Frerichs
Pal Szatmari With this contribution, Positive Feedback adds to its music review community select contributions from NativeDSD.com's volunteer writers....
Stile Antico: De Victoria, Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Week
It's good to have our dear friend John Marks back in our pages again. As always, he brings light and insight to music that's worthy of our careful...
Bychkov Conducts Franz Schmidt
SCHMIDT: Symphony No. 2 in E flat. STRAUSS: Dreaming by the Fireside (Symphonic interlude from Intermezzo). Vienna Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov. Sony...
Notes of an Amateur: Mozart, Adès, Ustvolskaya, Scelsi, and...
Mozart, Violin Sonatas, Nos. 5, 6, 7, 28, 35; Variations in G minor; Sonata in B flat Major, 570. Alina Ibragimova, violin. Cédric Tieberghien, piano....
The Best Music of 2017 - According to Music Magazines
Regular readers of High Fidelity remember, I hope, the texts from two and three years ago, which served (me and the editor-in-chief of HF, Wojciech...
Noa Fort, No World Between Us
Noa Fort, No World Between Us. Self-released, CD $15, available at https://noafort.bandcamp.com/album/no-world-between-us I've been really hard on...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Audio Aero Prima CD Player
This article, as reviewed by Carol Clark, Victor Chavira, and Larry Cox, originally ran when audioMusings was in print. Issue 11, 2000 I awaited the...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Siltech Triple Crown Power AC Cable
The information regarding the design of the Siltech Triple Crown Power AC Cable provided by Siltech seem to be simple and few: Unique 7 heavy core S8...
Show Reports
Day 3 AXPONA 2018: The Final Push
By Sunday all that was to give it the olde college try and go for broke. Sunday's game plan was to start as early as possible—beginning with a 7:30...
Day 3 AXPONA 2018: Scouring the Marketplace for Goodies!
Bigger than a basketball court but slightly smaller than a football field. Roughly one-half of the exhibit hall was designated the "Record Fair," while...
Day 2 AXPONA 2018: Reality Sets In
By now the reality of covering 162 rooms (with 60 new exhibitors) and 80 booths was over. Any hope of seeing the whole show—other than sprinting from...
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag: AXPONA 2018
For 2018, AXPONA moved to a bigger, shinier, swankier venue, showed up with real attitude and renewed swagger, and hosted noticeably bigger crowds. The...
AXPONA 2018, Photo Essay Part 6
All photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark... more on AXPONA 2018. Also, just a note. Not all rooms provide equipment lists, so many times I have...
AXPONA 2018, Photo Essay Part 5
All photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark... more on AXPONA 2018. Also, just a note. Not all rooms provide equipment lists, so many times I have...
