November - December 2020
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Audio Discourse
Alt-USB Cables: The Missing Ear Candy
Yes, I know. It's traditional to cite recordings used in an equipment review (and illustrate them with the cover art), but featuring even some of the...
Quickies: Minimum Reviews for Maximum Audiophiles
I have three great products to bring to your attention at the end of 2020. Listen up! Amazing Vacuum Tube Alert: GE 6189 (12AU7) JAN NOS The...
Tim de Paravicini - The Passing of a True Giant in the Audio...
Photograph by David W. Robinson, copyright © 2020, all rights reserved. Photograph may not be used or republished without the express written consent...
Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2020, Part the First
Ye Olde Editor in days collegiate, presenting the goods. Corvallis, OR, 1972 (photograph by Dr. John Hull) Thoughts at this end of the first year of...
High End Head Scratchers: Why You Need Fancy Wires for Your Subs
This curious tale of low-end wires in a very high-end system to be filed in the "Things I Can't Explain" folder, is directed at keen observers with...
Devialet D-Premier Upgrade to Expert 250 Pro
The Devialet D-Premier is sure to go down in audio history as a game changer. When it was introduced in 2010, little did we know that the D-Premier...
Hardware Reviews
Clarus Duet Power Conditioner
Power is king. Throughout my years in audio this one thing has become clear. Power supply quality shapes the sound of a component. In order to achieve...
ALT-USB: Cables Curious, Unique, Magic, and Lush
Seriously? A review of four idiosyncratic USB cables? Didn't some sage audio scribe opine back in the MP-3 days that USB meant "Usually Sounds Bad"?...
Astell&Kern SR25 - Incredible Transparency Weds Wondrous...
In the late 1990's, prior to Apple's creation of the iPod, the company, IRIVER, had been manufacturing consumer electronic products and some of the...
The Volti Audio Razz Loudspeaker
In 2018, Volti Audio's Greg Roberts offered me the opportunity to review his wonderful Rival Loudspeakers (HERE) I'd never heard a horn speaker in my...
Thöress EHT Amplifiers
Hybrid a thing made by combining two different elements; in biology: the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties; a...
FiiO Q3 - A Powerful, Little Musical Engine!
If you think about it, every musical instrument has its birth, grows its shape, as it chooses its skin—metal, wood, glass, reeds—and develops its...
Interviews
A Q&A with Estelon - A Decade of Loudspeaker Excellence
The Estonian based loudspeaker company, Estelon, has helped shape the past decade of top-tier loudspeakers. To celebrate their tenth anniversary,...
The Editors Series 30 - Dave Clark of Positive Feedback
Positive Feedback is an American audio magazine. From 1990 to 2002 it had been printed, but then it started to be published online only; it is one of...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 23
Battle of the Big Bands! This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations The late-1930s to mid-1940s—it was the height of the big...
Music Reviews
Cat Stevens - A Classic LP Reimagined
Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Tea For The Tillerman 2, Island Records (33 RPM LP) At 72 years old, Yusuf Islam continues to entertain and delight his fans. Born...
Craft Recordings' Record Store Day 2020 LPs
Record Store Day—or RSD as it's commonly known among aficionados—typically takes place twice a year, generally around April and October. RSD piques...
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas (70th Anniversary LP)
The first Peanuts comic strips from cartoonist Charles Schulz appeared in newspapers in October, 1950, and Craft Recordings is celebrating 70 years of...
Anna Fedorova - With Magic in the Air
Do you recall certain artists whose new releases you eagerly awaited? Anna Fedorova is that artist for us these days. We only recently discovered two...
Rachel Podger's Joyful Ventures With Bach
Rachel Podger is a joyful music maker, regardless of her choice of composers. And she is one of the best artists performing today on baroque violin and...
André Previn - A Fresh Voice on RCA With Supporting Cast From...
Circa 1967, that is… Imprints on music are lifelong influences. Among my early imprints that I continue to cherish are the recordings made by André...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Kora Explorer 90SI Integrated
This article, as reviewed by Larry Cox, Carol Clark, and Victor Chavira originally ran in Issue 3, October/November 2002, so while we call this section...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
MITSUBISHI ProDigi Digital Reel-to-Reel Recorders - From X-80 to...
It is the story of birth of digital audio, as well as a journey through the 1970s and 1980s, the best period in the history of digital recorders, and...
The Editors Series 30 - Dave Clark of Positive Feedback
Positive Feedback is an American audio magazine. From 1990 to 2002 it had been printed, but then it started to be published online only; it is one of...
SPEC Designer Audio RSA-V10 Integrated Amplifier
SPEC Corporation is a Japanese company founded by Mr. Shirokazu Yazaka, a former chief engineer at TEAC and Pioneer, to achieve one goal: to deliver...
Show Reports
A Look Back at Klipsch Pilgrimage, 2017
Robert Schryer and Dave Mallette report: A Story about Speakers, People, and Hope. Read about it HERE
