September - October 2023
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Audio Discourse
Now Starts the War!
Roger Skoff writes about what's good enough. A great many years ago, I briefly owned a genuine Italian race car. It was a Siata factory team car, built...
High-Res or Old School Digital?
Last week, a post on the Facebook group Streaming Music Matters generated quite a bit of interest and a long thread of responses. The post header read...
Waters on the Hardware: Notes on the RSX Technologies Power...
Dean Waters at Pacific Audio Fest 2023 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Serious listeners of high-end and high-resolution audio...
PS Audio DirectStream DAC MK2
"As good as it gets?" I dunno know anymore. Every time we get something here to listen to, and possibly review, we sit there and think just that. Which...
Impressions: The TARA Labs Omega Live Headphone Cables with...
David W. Robinson photographing at Icicle Creek, Leavenworth, WA, during the great fires of 2012. (Photograph by Lila Ritsema; image processing by...
Growing Concern with Audiophiles and Acoustics
Norman Varney of AV RoomService Ltd. has joined Positive Feedback as a Senior Technical Editor as of Issue 113. His expertise in his field of audio...
Hardware Reviews
Von Gaylord Audio – A Great Integrated System
Some 20 plus years ago, as a fledgling cub reporter for a local HiFi group, I was attending CES and the high-end show at the Alexis Park. That's when I...
Taking Stock of the Da Vinci Power Cable from Crystal Cable
For many years I scoured the fleas and thrifts, scarfing up cheap classical and, to a lesser extent, jazz LPs. The getting was good and the leaning...
PS Audio Aspen FR20 Loudspeakers
So, you've decided it's time to up your audiophile game with a new pair of speakers. It's a very exciting experience that requires one to ask a few key...
The Aavik I-880 Integrated Amplifier - A New Flagship For Audio...
Audio Group Denmark (AGD) is on a roll. If you take a look at some of the major high end show accounts for 2022 and 2023, the Audio Group Denmark rooms...
Audio Sensibility Signature Special Edition A/C Power Cord: A...
Image courtesy of Audio Sensibility I've been writing professional (i.e., paid) audio reviews for 12+ years. I've auditioned hundreds of different...
Yamaha A-S1200 Integrated Amplifier
"I've got a big one for ya." So said the UPS guy the day this bruiser of an integrated amp showed up. Not too long ago, it would've been considered...
Interviews
Feuilleton: An Interview with Mastering Engineer Christoph...
What does mastering mean? Read and listen for yourself! The way mastering is executed at MOFI caused a lot of excitement among audiophiles, and Analog,...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 38
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 226. Prince, Dirty Mind. Warner Bothers Records – BSK 3478 (1980), 33 1/3 rpm....
Music Reviews
David Bowie: Pinups 50th Anniversary Reissue LP from Rhino
Rhino Entertainment has just released a 50th Anniversary reissue of David Bowie's beloved Pinups, his 1973 album of cover tunes that paid homage to...
Notes from Recent Finds, No. 15 - Something New, Something Old,...
I've been scattered about in my listening recently, shifting from classical to jazz to pop. But I've found some gems to share with you in this edition...
Late Period R.E.M. Albums from Craft Recordings on 180 gram LP
As I mentioned in my last review of late-period R.E.M. releases from Craft Recordings, drummer Bill Berry's departure from the band changed the overall...
The Darkness Permission To Land...Again 20th Anniversary Edition...
Warner and Rhino Entertainment have just released The Darkness, Permission To Land…Again, which is a 5 LP, 20th Anniversary Edition that celebrates...
Linda Ronstadt's Canciones de mi Padre on 180 gram LP and CD...
Iconic Artists Group is a relatively new venture spearheaded by music industry heavy-hitter Irving Azoff; in what has become the new normal for...
Notes from Recent Finds, No. 14 - Classic Recordings from HDTT
I highly prize the excellence of many of the recordings made in the golden era of stereo, recordings from the late 1950s through 1960s. HDTT's reissue...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Loudspeaker Cables - Simple Passive Connection or Complex...
As part of Positive Feedback's "New Old Stock" [NOS] series of reprints, Greg Weaver's article from 1997 is presented as a significant article worthy...
Sophia Electric Baby Integrated
This article by Francisco Duran and Ed Morawski originally ran in Issue 8, August/September 2003, so while we call this section "New Old Stock -...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E157: Capital Audiofest 2023-TAC, VAC, & VSA
Today I’m sharing my last visit to one of the most exceptional rooms at Capital Audiofest 2023. Of course, I’m talking about the Potomac room,.... . . Read More »
E156: Capital Audiofest 2023-Treehaus Audiolab
Welcome to the first episode of the new year, 2024. Today we are going to visit a room Capital Audiofest 2023 that, as well as being as radically.... . . Read More »
E155: 2023 - A Year of Growth and Discovery
Today I am sharing the remarkable journey of growth and discovery that this past year 2023, has turned out to be for the channel. This just may prove.... . . Read More »
E154: Capital Audiofest 2023 - Audio Group Denmark
Today we will take a look at just who and what Audio Group Denmark is, and get a close look at, and brief listen to, the two systems that AGD presented.... . . Read More »
E153: Capital Audiofest 2023 - Hear This
Today I’m taking you on a tour of another room from the 2023 Capital Audiofest that exemplifies the constructive interaction expressed when the right.... . . Read More »
Show Reports
Pacific Audio Fest 2023, Part Three
Continuing our coverage. The Tektons really showed what they can do. Miller Carbon, Origin Live, Townshend Audio, Soundsmith, Atma-sphere, Heartsound....
