Stereophile Magazine - March 2025

In this issue

Focal Diva Utopia wireless streaming active loudspeaker -by Tom Fine
Aurorasound HFSA-1 integrated amplifier - by Ken Micallef
EMM Labs DA2i D/A processor - by Jason Victor Serinus

Transforming the music

One of my favorite things about this pastime is the modesty of its aims.

10+ mins

An ultrasonic bargain

The first album I ever bought with my own money-cash earned mowing neighbors' lawns-was a British plum-label pressing of Led Zeppelin II.

10+ mins

Focal Diva Utopia

WIRELESS STREAMING ACTIVE LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM

10+ mins

Aurorasound HFSA-01

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

10 mins

EMM Labs DA2i

Among the many reasons to be grateful for audio shows,' one stands out: They allow me to set reasonable expectations of what components and whole audio systems can or cannot achieve. They have helped me set standards.

10+ mins

MoFi Electronics Source Point 888

A recent high point in my career as a reviewer was writing about the MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 10 standmount loudspeaker for the February 2023 issue of Stereophile.'

8 mins

Stromtank S-4000 ProPower MK-II XT

COMPUTER-CONTROLLED BATTERY POWER SOURCE

9 mins

POLICED

THAT'S PRETTY ODIOUS,\" ANDY SUMMERS SAYS TO ME. \"AN ODIOUS COMPARISON.\" HIS BLUEISH EYES DARKEN. ROUGHLY AN HOUR INTO OUR 90-MINUTE FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW, I'D ASKED IF IT BOTHERS HIM THAT IN TERMS OF REACH AND STAYING POWER, HIS SOLO OEUVRE WILL NEVER MATCH HIS WORK WITH THE POLICE.

10+ mins

The Beatles in Mono according to Kevin

It's almost too easy to make Dave Dexter Jr. the villain in the story of the Beatles' fumbled introduction to America.

10+ mins

Lou Donaldson

Years ago, at one of the milestone NYC anniversary parties for Blue Note Records, a piercing voice burst out above the clinking glasses and chattering tongues, loudly declaiming (quoted here with several profanities omitted), \"Blue Note never gave me a dime!\"

3 mins

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