March - April 2024
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Audio Discourse
Do Streaming Services Have a Sound?
I'm pleased to introduce this article by my audio friend, Ferenc Koscsó, founder of My Reel Club™ and eminent recording engineer. As so often in...
Hit Play! Loving Horch House's Latest Yello Release on Tape!
Welcome to the first installment of Hit Play!, a bimonthly column (at least in the beginning) dedicated to the ultimate in music and sound on 15-ips...
Eating Soup with a Fork
Roger Skoff of RSX Technologies at the LAOC Gala, 2023 (portrait and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger Skoff writes about doing the right...
About Method - Or About What to Do When It Fails
For a man who still retains spontaneity, truth will always remain a great word, at the sound of which the heart beats more vividly. W. F. Hegel,...
Flaunt the Audio Imperfection
Frank Doris is a valued colleague at Positive Feedback, a Senior Associate Editor here, as well, and Editor of Copper magazine, the publication of PS...
Is it Really all BS? Part 2
Roger Skoff of RSX Technologies at the LAOC Audio Society Gala, December of 2023 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger Skoff...
Hardware Reviews
With the New Record Doctor X, Your Vinyl Cleans Up Nicely!
As widely noted, for the second year in a row in 2023, vinyl record sales topped compact disc sales in the U.S.—this time by a whopping $43 million,...
Gingko Audio's Cloud22 Isolation Products
As many years as I have been in this hobby, within the last few I have become more and more intolerant of the exaggerated claims of expensive tweaks by...
Waters on the Hardware: Qln Signature Loudspeakers (5th...
Dean Waters at Pacific Audio Fest 2023: a portrait (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) The Qln Signature Series, Fifth Generation,...
A Follow-up on the Vanguard Caldera 10 Subwoofer: Dual Subs Now...
My original review of the Vanguard Caldera 10 subwoofer earlier this year was nothing short of an all out rave, and deservedly so! I know this is...
Puron Resolve RFI Eliminators
In my recent review of the Puron AC Power Conditioners, I was struck by the abundance of amazing and relatively inexpensive enhancements...
XACT S1 Music Server
The brochure included with the XACT S1 music server hammered on the point again and again. Digital that doesn't sound like digital. More like vinyl....
Interviews
Creating a Musical World With the Slambovian Circus of Dreams
This article is republished from Copper Magazine, edited by Frank Doris, and was written by him. Frank is also a Senior Associate Editor here...
Music Reviews
Patricia Barber's Companion, Now Available on 45 rpm 1STEP from...
Impex Records continues to roll out the hits with another superb choice for their next deluxe 1STEP LP treatment, reaching again into the catalog of...
Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond at Wilshire-Ebel
I think it's pretty safe to say that most record-collecting audiophiles know Dave Brubeck (1920-2012), and his album, Time Out (Columbia CS8192). After...
April 2024 Record Store Day LPs from Rhino and Warner
Rhino Entertainment has an impressive slate of limited-edition LPs available for the upcoming Saturday, April 20th celebration of Record Store Day 2024...
April Record Store Day LP Offerings from Craft Recordings
Craft Recordings is offering another cool slate of limited-edition LPs for the upcoming Saturday, April 20th celebration of Record Store Day 2024...
Rare and Classic Top Shelf Reissue LPs from Jazz Dispensary and...
Jazz Dispensary is a specialty imprint of Craft Recordings that's dedicated to mining the riches of parent company Concord Music's vast catalog of...
Classic Contemporary Label Jazz Reissues from Craft Recordings...
Craft Recordings has announced the latest group of reissues from their Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which features twelve LP reissues...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
The Twentieth Century and the Birth of Audio Technology
This article by John Pearsall originally ran in Positive Feedback ISSUE 3 October/November 2002, so while we call this section "New Old Stock -...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E177: High End Munich 2024: Alsyvox, Gryphon, & Master...
Those of you who follow my written work will be aware that in September of 2022, I was invited to Rhapsody Audio in Brooklyn to get a personal taste of.... . . Read More »
E176: High End Munich 2024: Kronos, Mola Mola, Kubala•Sosna...
Today we will take virtual tours of, and get a sample listen to, what were in my opinion, among the most significant product launches at this year’s.... . . Read More »
E175: High End Munich 2024: The Munich Order Center
Well, I’m back in the Midwest after a whirlwind week in Munich. Well, almost a week. Weather delays out of Chicago cost me a full day’s delay….... . . Read More »
E174: The Amazing S.M.S.L SU-1 DAC
I wonder how many of you watching realize or give any thought to, what an amazing time it is to be a music-loving audiophile. Allow me a short rant to.... . . Read More »
E173: AXPONA 2024-Top Five Rooms: GTT & Kubala•Sosna
Today we will visit one of the five most authentically musical and emotionally engaging systems I heard at this year’s tenth Audio Expo North.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Fezz Audio Equinox EVO DAC
PREMIERE Fezz Audio is a company specializing in tube amplifiers. It is the audiophile branch of toroidal transformer manufacturer, Toriody.pl, also...
Siltech Royal Single Crown Interconnect
Siltech is one of the three brands that make up International Audio Holding BV. Founded in 1983 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, it specialized in silver...
Flow Three Integrated Amplifier
PREMIERE Flow by Allegro is a Hungarian company, founded in 2018, specializing in audio amplifiers. Its founder and designer is Mr. Bela Teleki, but...
Show Reports
Slouching Towards Schaumburg - AXPONA 2024
I'm sliding into Northern Illinois on a dreary Thursday in early April. There is a touch of nostalgia and foreboding landing here in the suburbs of...
Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Best Rooms - High End by Oz
With this episode of the audio analyst©, "Episode 167: Southwest Audio Fest 2024-Best Rooms - High End by Oz," I’m highlighting the remarkable sonic...
Florida International Audio Expo 2024
One of my favorite audio events every year is the Tampa show. For the past four visits the weather has been sunny and in the 70s every day. This year...
