November - December 2014
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Audio Discourse
The 11th Annual Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards for...
Beginning at the end of 2003, PF established its first annual awards for fine audio. The Brutus Award was established for the best that Dave Clark and...
The Acoustic Revive Chronicles: The Eleventh House!
As many of you know—and as the title reference to "The Acoustic Revive Chronicles" suggests—over the years I've written quite...
When Old Is New and Streaming Media: The iBasso D12 Anaconda...
"Oh help me, please doctor, I'm damaged There's a pain where there once was a heart It's sleepin, it's a beatin' Can't ya please tear it out, and...
My Favorite Tubes and Their Substitutes
I love and appreciate tube based audio gear and own sixteen pieces of tube gear between my two reference systems. Without a thorough knowledge of tube...
How Wall Street Destroyed the Record Business
"The digital music business has been a war of attrition that nobody seems to be winning," said David Goldberg, the former head of Yahoo...
Music Enhanced To an Astonishing Level: The Transcendent...
The First Blueport "Audio Transcendence" Award (With a response by Marshall Nack) What does it mean that the onset of Global Warming...
Hardware Reviews
Viero Equilibrio Level 3 Speaker Cables
So the call came out from PF: Who wants to review a pair of expensive speaker cables made in Italy? I raised my hand, er, I mean I responded to the...
VPI Classic Direct Turntable - Turning Back Time
Dogma is defined in the dictionary as, "A belief or set of beliefs that is accepted by the members of a group without being questioned or...
Zu Audio Druid V Loudspeakers
'twas the year of our Lord twothousandandfive, when I had the very first opportunity to audition and opine about Zu's Druid loudspeakers...
LKV Veros One Phonostage
Quietude… That isn't a word you hear too often when describing high-end audio! But, what is most important with high fidelity LP playback? I...
Kronos Audio Products Sparta Turntable
Watching the Kronos Audio Products Sparta Turntable being assembled on my rack, it's clear that this is not your father's turntable. Visually,...
Inex Innovation Photon USB2 Audio Cable and USB to S/PDIF...
INEX Innovation, Inc. is a small audio company that was founded in 2004 by a group of audiophiles with strong engineering backgrounds in fiber optics...
Interviews
David Robinson and David Elias on DSD Interviewed by Steve...
Enjoy the Music.TV's interview with David W. Robinson of Positive Feedback magazine and singer/musician/songwriter David Elias. Hosted by...
Music Reviews
Recondite, Iffy
Recondite is a master of smooth grooves. 2013's Hinterland was/is a superb compilation of intelligent electronic music that's ideal for just...
Releases by Tacet Audio, Navona Records, Art Haus Musik and
Phoenix in Flight. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirk Trevor. Clarinetist: Richard Stoltzman. Navona Records CD NV801 This...
Notes of an Amateur: Schubert, Gubaidulina, Shostakovich.
Schubert, Winterreise. Matthias Goerne, baritone. Christoph Eschenbach, piano. Schubert Edition, No. 9. Harmonia Mundi. HMC 902107. Schubert's...
Caribou, Our Love
Some records, I find, are best described as a sonic journey, a whole, rather than dissecting each track (though, admittedly, I'll be doing some of...
New Music - David Roth, Guru Guru, and More
David Roth - Will You Come Home Stockfisch SFR 357.8079.1, 2 x 180 g 45 rpm LP The tradition of Stockfisch LP releases goes back to the 1990s. On a...
Notes of an Amateur: Rachel Podger, Margaret Brouwer, Galina...
Perla Barocca. Early Italian Masterpieces. Rachel Podger, violin. Harpsichord, organ, and therobo accompaniment. Channel Classics. CCSA 36014. CD/SACD....
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Acoustic Masterpiece M-101 Amplifier
This article, by Dave Clark, Victor Chavira, Larry Cox, and Francisco Duran, originally ran when audioMUSINGS was in print - Issue 6, 1998. Some...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Fonica - F-901 VIOLIN Turntable + F-03 rev.3 Tonearm
The turntable is a relatively simple mechanical design. Its task is to spin the platter with a vinyl disc in an appropriate manner, i.e. at a...
Rogoz Audio 3RP1/BBS Isolation Board
It was with great pleasure that I unpacked the newest isolation board from Janusz Rogoz, which is marked as the 3RP1/BBS. Large and heavy, employing...
Phasemation HD-7A192 D/A Converter
When I think about Phasemation I see a picture in front of my eyes of an older gentleman, the CEO of this company, standing next to the TechDAS Air...
Ultrasone EDITION 5 Headphones
In a year 2003, a not so widely known German company called Ultrasone launched the Edition 7 headphones. It was a limited edition of 999 units. That...
Abyssound's ASP-1000 Preamplifier and ASX-2000 Amplifier
The pictures that accompany High Fidelity's review of the ASX-1000 amplifier show that it is a fairly large, not to say massive, unit. Short...
Show Reports
2014 TAVES Show Report Part Two
One of the fastest growing distributors in Canada is Charisma Audio. Owner Bernard Li always puts on a good show and this time was no exception. This...
2014 TAVES Show Report Part One
Tis the season for TAVES and yet again, it provided a reason for celebrating sonic excellence. This is the one high-end audio show that I truly enjoy...
Jon Mayer Solo: LIVE! in Portland
Jazz pianists are the archivists and barometric interpreters of the Great American songbook, a repository of melodic brilliance that legendary pianist...
Impressions: Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014, & My PFO Audio...
The registration lines at RMAF 2014…busy! The Intro… Shazam! How does time pass this bloody quickly? It seems like just the other day that I was at...
The Three Musketeers See the RMAF 2014
Gary Dahl, Thom Mackris (of Galibier Designs) and I have been working on a high-efficiency speaker for a while now. This is the outcome of the enormous...
RMAF 2014
During the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014, Myles Astor posted images and thoughts daily on the Positive Feedback Facebook page. Check out his reports...
