May - June 2017
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Audio Discourse
From the LA Audio Show: PF's DSD Seminar PowerPoints
From the LA Audio Show: PF's DSD Seminar PowerPoints Those of you who were at the recent LA Audio Show had an opportunity to attend the Positive...
Audio Ramblings - The Aurender A10 and Comments on Cables from...
So, two things on my mind here… the Aurender A10 and how wonderfully musical it is, and the WireWorld Starlight Cat8 Ethernet cables… and how they...
The Acoustic Revive Chronicles, Chapter 13: The RPT-6 Absolute...
Acoustic Revive was founded in Japan in 1997 by Mr. Ken Ishiguro, who is the design genius behind the innovative and ultra-quality Acoustic Revive...
The State of the High End Audio Show
Jeremy R. Kipnis & Bob Carver at New York Audio Show - Nov. 2016 As a teenager of 17, I was introduced to CES: The Winter Consumer Electronics Show...
Sony Adds Quad DSD to Car Digital Media Player
Sony RSX-GS9 Playing Dirty Work by Jenna Mammina in DSD 11.2 MHz (Photo: Blue Coast Music) Sony Electronics has announced that their RSX-GS9 Car...
Impressions: My Audio Oasis! Awards for AXPONA 2017
Chicago 2017 is now firmly in the rear-view mirror, O'Hare Airport and all. The show itself was a well attended event, with a just announced attendance...
Hardware Reviews
Synergistic Research PowerCell 12 UEF SE Power Conditioner
Please be patient as I step you through some backstory. I reviewed the Synergistic Research PowerCell 10 UEF power conditioner back in October...
Grado Labs PS2000e Headphones
It is high time an American company—with manufacturing in Brooklyn, New York since 1953—should develop and build a state of the art challenger for...
Synergistic Research Galileo UEF AES/EBU (XLR) Digital Cable
Synergistic Research (SR) is at it again. Like Michael Corleone in Godfather III, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" I am always on...
Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier
I've had my fair chance at messing with all sorts of amplifier technologies, from Class A, to AB, D, even T—you name it, and each one carries their...
Fiio X5 3rd Generation Digital Audio Player
Fiio have been well-regarded as an audio company for their budget to mid-priced offerings. The original Fiio X5 DAP captivated audiences worldwide but...
Kuzma 4 Point 14" Tonearm
Albert Porter owns www.porterhouseaudio.com and features products from Allnic Audio, Stahl~Tek, Purist Audio Design, Koetsu cartridges, Airtight...
Interviews
Bill Parish Talks with PF's Jim Merod
Jim Merod was in NYC recently, helping to MC a special Jazz event at The Lincoln Center. While there, he took the time to visit with Bill Parish of GTT...
From the Kipnis Studios (KSS): The View From The Top - An...
Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS) - Stereo Loudspeaker & Amplifier Testing Array with (Left to Right) Ologe Model FIVE, Ceratec Effeqct Mk. IV, and...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 3
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations. In a slight variation of sorts, and at the risk of foregoing a bit of diversity,...
Music Reviews
Thurston Moore, Rock and Roll Consciousness
Ecstatic Peace!/Caroline Records CAROL015LP, $19.99 2-LPs Amazon.com For me there are two Sonic Youths. I really like one of them. They're edgy and...
Freedom is Free, Chicano Batman
As I write this review, Chicano Batman takes the stage in the blaring sun of the Coachella Valley for the second time—two years ago, some...
Notes of an Amateur: Goerne Sings Schumann, Pacifica Quartet...
Einsam Keit. Schumann Lieder. Mathias Goerne, baritone, Markus Hinterhäuser, piano. Harmonia Mundi HMM 902243. Coming to Matthias Goerne without...
Robt Sarazin Blake, Recitative
Same Room Records SSR030, double LP $25, double CD $20, download $15—robertsarazinblake.bandcamp.com Recitative is one of those albums you release...
The Mother of All Music - Music of the Bushmen
Bushmen of the Kalahari When We Were Free: Bushman Music of the Kalahari Rhythm is the prominent element of the music on these CDs: claps, rattles,...
Victoria Terekiev, Wind from the East
PIPKOV: Bulgarian Suite for Piano, Op. 2. HADJIEV: Melodic Etudes. VLADIGEROV: Bulgarian Songs and Dances, Op. 25. Victoria Terekiev, piano. Gega New...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
The Sun Rises in America - Reinventing Push/Pull: Some Dancing...
This article, by Harvey Rosenberg, originally ran when Positive Feedback was in print - Vol. 7, No. 6, 1998. During my short tenure as PF's...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Soundsmith Zephyer MIMC Star Cartridge
Soundsmith Zephyer MIMC Star Cartridge The world's best turntables use Soundsmith because we've been designing and hand-building the world's best phono...
Yayuma Audio Awareness Line ASP 01 Sound Processor
A general rule, which I try to follow selecting audio products for my tests and when performing the test boils down to credibility. On the one hand, my...
Accuphase DP-950/DC-950 Super Audio CD Player
It's been thirty years since Accuphase presented to the world their own Compact Disc Player. The two-box DP-80/DC-81 system premiered in July 1986 and...
Krakow Sonic Society Meeting 108 - Kondo ONGAKU Integrated...
It was clear from the moment I knew I would receive Kondo OnGaku amplifier for a review that I would also want to listen to it together with my...
Show Reports
Los Angeles Audio Show Part Four
Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Four. Musical Fidelity, Crystal Cable, Audio Plus Services. Musical Fidelity. A...
Los Angeles Audio Show Part Three
Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Three. Channel Islands Audio had two passive line controllers, the PLC.1 MKII and...
Los Angeles Audio Show Part Two
Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Two. Elite Audio Systems, Viola Labs, Kharma International. Alma Music &...
Los Angeles Audio Show Part One
This was the first time for this new show, also known as the LAAS. The venue moved from Orange County to LAX. This show report will feature a lot of...
High End Munich 2017
Our Partner in Europe, Dirk Sommer of HIFI Statement, offers a plethora of images from Day 1 of the High End Munich 2017 show by HIFI Statement's.... . . Read More »
AXPONA 2017: Pictures at an Audio Exhibition
Dateline: Westin Hotel, Rosemont, Ill., April 21-23rd, 2017 AXPONA! I get a serious kick out of listening to exotic, cost-no-object systems. In fact,...
