May - June 2018
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Audio Discourse
Muddy Waters, Folk Singer, on Analogue Productions LP: It Feels...
Muddy Waters was born on April 4, 1913 and died on April 30, 1983. The 35th anniversary of his passing has recently come and gone. For this occasion, I...
Impressions: Select Portraits and Studies from the Munich Show...
You may have noticed a trend over the years in my response to high-end audio shows. I've gravitated more and more to photographs not of products, but...
Universal Disk Players Placed on Endangered Species List
"May you live in interesting times." Legend has it that in ancient China this was a curse to be invoked against one's enemies to deprive them of a...
In Memory of David A. Wilson II, 1944 - 2018
The world of fine audio was rocked by the news of David Wilson's passing. In this memoriam, our good friend John Marks, the editor of The Tannhauser...
Quickies: The ESS 422H Heil AMT Headphones, the Linear Tube...
ESS 422H Heil AMT/Moving Coil Hybrid Headphones: New Current Production Back in February when I reviewed these brand new headphones with their amazing...
First Systems, Part 1 - Julie's System
This will be the first of another sporadically updated series I hope to do, maybe annually or maybe more often, about helping people set up their first...
Hardware Reviews
The Hana EL Moving Coil Cartridge: Exceptional Performance at an...
Late last year, I had a tremendous review opportunity that focused on ProJect's The Classic turntable; unbeknownst to me, the review unit arrived as...
STEALTH Audio Helios Phono Cable - Analog Dreams of Noise-Free...
Saturday mornings I'm at the Greenmarket early and later I make my way over to Academy Records, my favorite music retailer. While perusing the bins...
Naim Audio Uniti Atom vs. UnitiQute vs. Smoked Eel
Fergus Henderson—the chef who's the reason the hip restaurant around the corner from you serves bone marrow, sweetbreads, and other animal...
The Gingko Acoustic Resonance Clarifier™ (ARCH)
As I began listening to the Gingko ARCHs the many audio tweaks I've tried over the years ran through my mind. The more I thought about it virtually...
Audio Physic Avanti Loudspeakers
German loudspeaker manufacturer Audio Physic has a long and storied history of innovation. From the employment of side-mounted woofers and narrow...
JCAT USB Isolator - Enhancing USB Audio Playback to the Nth...
I've been using JPLAY as my go-to computer-based music player/streamer for the last couple of years—it's without a doubt the very best...
Interviews
Dave and Carol Clark of Positive Feedback
Dave and Carol Clark of Positive Feedback. Dave and Carol give us all the details on creating a print magazine, shifting to an online publication and.... . . Read More »
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 8
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations. 61. Pixies, Surfer Rosa. 4AD – 803 (UK) (1988), MoFi – MFSL 1-296...
Music Reviews
The B3B4 Organ Jazz Quartet
Self-released and available at b3jazz.com; CD $12.97, digital download $9.99 "My name is Kevin Gerzevitz and I play the Hammond Organ. I've learned...
Casey's Latest Album and Tom Weaver's Catharsis - "For All the...
Casey, Where I Go When I'm Sleeping. Hassle Records. Casey is an emotional melodic hardcore band from South Wales, United Kingdom. Their second...
Gabriel Mervine's People, Places, and Things
Gabriel Mervine's People, Places, and Things. Synergy Records SMCD 80040-2, 80043-2 and 80044-2, CD $12.98 each at Amazon.com Before I can introduce...
Lyn Stanley Moonlight Sessions Volumes 1 and 2
John Huxhold and Eric Meyer With this contribution, Positive Feedback adds more to its music review community select contributions from NativeDSD.com's...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
ATC SCM50asl Loudspeakers and the SCA-2 Preamplifier
This article, as reviewed by Francisco Madrid, Victor Chavira, and Larry Cox, originally ran when audioMusings was in print. Issue 13, 2001 This is...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Fidata HFAS1-XS20U Network Server/Audio Files Transport
Before our eyes, slowly a hierarchy of devices used to play audio files begins take a shape. For a long, too long time, there was no clarity in this...
Krakow Sonic Society Meeting 113 - dCS Vivaldi One Super Audio...
Spectacle in Two Acts with Epilogue Prologue The plan was simple: we wanted to get to know the new dCS SACD player, the Vivaldi One. In December 2013,...
Show Reports
AXPONA 2018: End of the Road, Snow on the Horizon?
Top Five Show Sounds at AXPONA 2018 1. GTT Audio lineup YG Acoustics Sonja XV Jr. speakers Audionet Heisenberg amplifiers, Stern preamplifier, PAM 2...
AXPONA 2018 - My Top Rooms for Sound
AXPONA 2018 was an absolute delight. More head count. More smiling faces. More listening rooms. Friendly hosts. Friendly patrons. It wasn't the...
AXPONA 2018, Photo Essay Part 1
This is the first year Dave and I have attended AXPONA. I quickly learned, it's not just another show. With over 160 rooms, there was a lot of ground...
