September - October 2021
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Audio Discourse
From an Editor’s Notebook: Twain, Tobacco, and Reviewing
Ye Olde Editor in a tobacco moment (photograph by John Robinson) These thoughts are short and to the point. High-end audio is filled with reviews (many...
Kirmuss Audio Advances Record Restoration and Introduces the...
An important announcement! The energetic and brilliant Charles Kirmuss has no grass growing under his feet as he announces changes in usage of his...
Weak Links and Sorting Eggs
Roger Skoff writes about the best way to approach improving your system Just in case you'd forgotten, Roger Skoff is the former Owner/Designer of XLO...
Thoughts on the Schiit Yggdrasil Analog 2 DAC and an Interview...
Mike Moffat still photo sourced from Schiit Audio video VALENCIA, CA—Mike Moffat, 73, is co-founder of the wildly successful Schiit Audio, which...
Impressions: From an Editor’s Notebook, Part 1...ADD-POWR...
David W. Robinson, a portrait in late August of 2021. (Photograph by John Robinson.) "We will serve no wine before its time." – Carlo Rossi It's...
A Material Difference?
Roger Skoff writes about the stuff our stuff is made of... Many years ago, Goldmund, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of reference-quality audio...
Hardware Reviews
Ethernet Cables from AudioQuest - Pearl, Carbon, and Diamond
Something strange happened recently that caused me to rethink the testing paradigm used by reviewers. I was multitasking, putting some low-priced music...
The ampsandsound Bryce Monos
Justin Weber, the owner of ampsandsound, has been on a roll lately. 2021 has been a big year for him. He introduced two new headphone amplifiers (The...
Aavik Acoustics RIAA R-180 Phono Preamplifier
Excellent transparency and musicality deliver musical bliss. Review By Tom Lyle With this article, Positive Feedback continues its content-sharing...
Wells Audio Innamorata II Amplifier and Commander Line Stage...
Prologue I've had the Magneplanar LRS loudspeakers in my daily-listening system for over two years now; every time I swap them out for something else,...
The PureAudioProject Duet 15 Prelude Loudspeakers
Unless you have been living under a turntable weight, you are likely aware of PureAudioProject. Founded in 2013 by Ze'ev Schlik, the collaborative...
AURALiC Sirius G2.1 and Aries G2.1
These days it seems like many high end manufacturers are building all in one digital front ends. What I mean by that is one box that consists of both...
Interviews
Audiophiles as Artists - Chris Morris
Originally published in Issue 104. Twenty questions with an audiophile who is also an artist. For this Audiophiles as Artists, we feature Chris...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 28
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 176. Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears. Columbia – CS 9720...
Music Reviews
May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson
Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson was, if nothing else, a Texas original. As founder of Austin's Thirteenth Floor Elevators, he was on the cutting edge of...
Patricia Barber's Clique! in 32-bit DXD, High Resolution Digital...
I wasn't raised from birth to be a jazz-hound; that came about as a happy accident of Reaganomics, where I suddenly found myself out of a job and ended...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Stereovox SEI-600 Interconnects
This article, as reviewed by David Robinson originally ran in Issue 3, October/November 2002, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E57: GTT Listening Room Tour
After my most recent visit to GTT Audio & Video in Long Valley, New Jersey, to cover the launch of the superb KRONOS Discovery turntable, it.... . . Read More »
E56: The KRONOS Discovery turntable launch
I was honored to be invited for a private, extended audition of Louis Desjardins latest creation, his all-out assault on LP playback, the KRONOS.... . . Read More »
E55: A Conversation with Eikon’s Gayle Sanders
Today, we talk about the Image1 from Eikon, and how it came to be, and founder Gayle Sanders announces the introduction of what promises to be an.... . . Read More »
E54: A Conversation with VACs Kevin Hayes
When discussing the finest electronics available to the music loving audiophile today, the Valve Amplification Company figures predominantly. For.... . . Read More »
E53: WAMs J.R. Boisclair on the state of cartridge construction
WAM Engineering’s J.R. Boisclair is doing some remarkable work on his ever deepening dive into the relationship between the groove and the stylus..... . . Read More »
E52: More Fun with Vintage Gear
There are many excellent reasons to build a system, completely or in part, from vintage products. And searching out and owning vintage audio gear can.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Colored Vinyl
Colored vinyl, or a few words about the phenomenon of colored vinyl with the Komeda Quintet's Astigmatic in the version released on the artists 90th...
Show Reports
Flashback: California Audio Show 2018
Although some audio shows are finally back on this year, we are still mostly on hiatus. In the mean time, take a trip down Memory Lane with two reports...
