March - April 2021
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Audio Discourse
Audio Existentialism - Questions; Music… It's Slipping
The lapping of the bay, the wind through fallen tree. Birds of the sea and the land. It is all music gifted to us by nature. We use our nature to make...
Alesis ADAT - 30 Years of Digital Recorder that Revolutionized...
Part 1: TECHNOLOGY In the 1990s, the music industry moved from reel-to-reel recorders, both analog and digital, to DAW recording systems, i.e. computer...
Acoustics and Critical Listening
Norman Varney of AV RoomService Ltd. has joined Positive Feedback as a Senior Technical Editor as of Issue 113. His expertise in his field of audio...
(Good) Vibrations: Roger Skoff Writes About What it's Really...
If you stop to think about it, you'll see that all of everything about our hobby—the music we love, the gear we give so much of our wealth and...
Roy Hamilton and His Influence on Elvis
Part 1: The Awaking Late October of last year, a friend of mine who lives in Wichita Kansas, came to visit me for a jam session and a guitar lesson. We...
A Fair Audio Playing Field
Norman Varney of AV RoomService Ltd. has joined Positive Feedback as a Senior Technical Editor as of Issue 113. His expertise in his field of audio...
Hardware Reviews
Ahhh zaZen! The zaZen II Isolation Platform
ZaZen is a Zen Buddhist practice for individuals to achieve some peace, however temporary. I am familiar enough with Zen practices to know that I have...
Xavian Ambra Esclusiva Loudspeakers
"Hello beautiful" is what I found myself thinking, as I unpacked the Xavian Ambra Esclusiva speakers from their carton. I am a fan of immaculately...
Audience adeptResponse aR6-T4 Passive Power Conditioner
With Audience's frontRow powerChord. Reacquaint yourself with the art of deep listening. Review By Dr. Michael Bump With this article, Positive...
Record Doctor Clamp
Might this be the easiest review I have ever written? I'll cut to the chase and claim that the Record Doctor record clamp is a "no brainer" essential...
Karan Acoustics KAS 600 Stereo Amplifier and KAL Reference MK3...
A System For All Seasons It seems like a lifetime ago I reviewed the Karan Acoustics KAS 450 stereo amplifier. My conclusion was "This is an amplifier...
Synergistic Research Galileo SX Ground Block - The Benefits of...
For many of us, it has been a process. Maybe a long and challenging process, but one with plenty of rewards and satisfaction. Can we call it a hobby,...
Interviews
Marius Leirånes: Man of the Wilderness
Marius Leirånes. Photo by Natalie Jensen, used with permission. A few miles south of the arctic circle, in the small village of Rognan, Norwegian...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 25
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 161. Diahann Carroll and The André Previn Trio, Porgy and Bess. United Artists...
Music Reviews
Brief Impressions on the Music: Blue Coast Records Heavenly...
Anyone who's followed my love of great recordings and exceptional productions knows that I value the work of Cookie Marenco and company very highly....
Max Richter's Voices 2
Ambient music, like all other genres, has no rules. There may be, however, at least one tenant that many ambient artists collectively follow, or at...
Notes of an Amateur: First Quarter, 2021
Complete Peter Serkin. Sony 19439713872. 30 CD's. If Serkin is one of your very favorite pianists, as he is one of mine, then this is a treasure...
Winterreise with Ragazze Quartet and Martijn Cornet
Schubert's Winterreise, one of the greatest song cycles written, is most often heard with piano and voice. The Ragazze Quartet treats us to a...
Travis, Good Feeling LP Reissue from Craft Recordings
Travis, Good Feeling. 120 gram, black vinyl LP: $21.99 MSRP. Available from Craft Recordings. It's been said that everyone who listened to the Velvet...
James Blake, Covers
James Blake, Covers Standing out from the noise in popular music is no easy feat. It takes more than a strong voice to stick out from the crowd these...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Stu's Place - Beneath the Planet of the Son of Tube Fest,...
This article originally ran in Volume 5, No. 2 of Positive Feedback Back in the Tube Saddle Again It's been a while, hasn't it? A couple of...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Accuphase C-3900 Line Preamplifier
The Japanese company Accuphase was set up in 1972 as Kensonic Laboratory, Inc. in Tokyo and after it moved to Yokohama in 1973, its products have born...
Krakow Sonic Society Meeting 128 - Ayon Audio S-10 II Signature...
KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY is an informal group of audiophiles and friends who meet every now and then to learn something new about audio products, music...
