September - October 2017
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Audio Discourse
Audio Ramblings - The Gold Note PH-10 Phono Stage
Gold Note might not be familiar to us here in the States as they are a relatively new company from Italy that is rapidly filling its offerings with...
Carver Amazing Line Source Speaker and the Even More Amazing Bob...
On Sunday October 15, 2017, the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society held its monthly meeting at the beautiful Weinhart Design audio emporium in...
Jennifer Warnes: "Song of Bernadette"
John Marks of The Tannhauser Gate favors us with some reflections upon Bernadettes, Leonard Cohen of remarkable memory, the exceptional Jennifer...
Equipment for Making Archival Digital Copies of an LP, Part 6: ...
This is the sixth and final installment of John Marks series on putting together a system to digitize your LPs. Republished from his blog site, The...
The New Apartment Lounge: Welcoming the New Von Schweikert Audio...
Sizing Things Up Straight out of the box, the new Von Schweikert Audio Unifield 2 Mk III Loudspeakers (a replacement for the highly regarded Mk II...
Building a System from Technics - The SU-C700 Stereo Integrated...
Technics is on a roll. Leave it up to the brand which helped define consumer HiFi in the 70s, to continue delivering the goods in 2017. That's quite...
Hardware Reviews
Sonore's UltraRendu Streamer with the UpTone Audio...
Streaming is the future of computer audio. Anyone who's serious about playback of digital files knows that streaming is essential to achieve the...
Merrill Audio Veritas Monoblock Amplifiers: Are All Class-D...
Have Class-D amplifiers gotten a bad rap? Despite my colleague Guido Corona's enthusiastic review of Merrill Audio's Veritas amplifiers (HERE) some...
Unique Innovation Technology (UIT) Perfect Music Purifier (PMP)...
Many of our readers will have read my earlier rave review of the Unique Innovation Technology (UIT) interconnects back in Positive Feedback Issue...
Happy Happy Joy Joy - PASS Labs XP-10 Preamplifier
Reviewing Reviewing has been a boon to me. I enjoy audio and music more than I ever have because of it. While my time for listening is pinched by my...
NSMT A100 Amplifier
I am so excited about this amplifier I don't know where to start. First and foremost is its surprising performance. Secondly is the price. For...
Air Tight’s Top-of-the-Line Cartridges: The Supreme and Opus
Air Tight's Supreme and Opus Cartridges What's the Pecking Order? "That would make life very interesting, but wouldn't it be overkill?" I was in the...
Interviews
A Few Simple Words About the Future of Audio, Munich High End...
People keep on learning that this year I skipped this or that room, missed one or another presentation, or did not manage to come to some appointments....
Music Reviews
Premier Review: Yuko Mabuchi Trio Live Concert Recording from...
Yuko Mabuchi Trio; Yuko Mabuchi piano, Bobby Breton drums, and Del Atkins bass; Yarlung Records 80161 CD, pressed in Germany on high definition...
Notes of an Amateur: Goerne Sings Bach; Two New Penderecki...
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantatas for Bass. Matthias Goerne, baritone. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Gottfried von de Goltz. Harmonia Mundi HMM 902323. If...
Karol Szymanowski Symphonies
No. 2, Op. 19; No. 3, Op. 27 ("Song of the Night"). Ewa Marczyk, violin; +Ryszard Minkiewicz, tenor; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and +Choir/Antoni...
Elinor Frey, Fiorè Complete Cello Sonatas & 17th Century...
Anyone with any level of appreciation for great cello performance should check out Elinor Frey at once; an immensely talented and virtuosic player,...
Notes of an Amateur: Ibragimova's Mozart, Haimovitz Plays Philip...
Mozart Violin Sonatas, Nos 3, 8, 20, 25, 26, 30. Alina Ibragimova, violin and Cédric Tibeghien, piano. Hyperion CDA 68164. (2 CD's.) What always...
Legrand Jazz, Impex Records LP Reissue
Legrand Jazz, Impex Records LP Reissue, Stereo. IMP 6028 of Columbia CS 8079 It is about time Legrand Jazz, this historic jazz LP—or shall I say...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Blue Circle BC3 Preamplifier
This article, by Carol Clark, Victor Chavira, and Larry Cox, originally ran when audioMusings was in print - Issue 3, 1998 I met Gilbert Yeung,...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Rogoz Audio Trio/BBS Anti-Vibration Rack
The Rogoz Audio website shows no less than 23 anti-vibration rack models and that doesn't include the latest series. Some of them are versions of the...
Krakow Sonic Society - Power Cables from Siltech and Crystal...
Meeting #109: Crystal Cable's The Ultimate Dream power cable and Siltech's Triple Crown power cable One of the most pleasant things about the job...
Show Reports
RMAF 2017 Photo Essay Part 5
Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. Thrax Audio, Symposium...
RMAF 2017 Photo Essay Part 4
Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. Schiit Audio and Salk Sound....
RMAF 2017 Photo Essay Part 3
Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. Focal, Naim, Vicoustic, Audio...
RMAF 2017 Photo Essay Part 2
Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. AVM Audio, Music Direct. This...
TAVES Consumer Electronics Show 2017
This year, for the first time in its history, the TAVES Consumer Electronics Show was moved to a non-hotel setting. The 2017 TAVES venue was the...
Lone Star Audio Fest 2017
Passion, that one word sums it all up and answers many questions. Why collectively spend decades evolving a simple table radio into a complex...
