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Listening - Shindo Redux

As with the older Monbrison and Masseto alike, the line stage of the new Monbrison is based on a stereo pair of triode-pentode tubes—in this case, the Telefunken ECL 94S, used in the previous Monbrison.

Mytek Hifi Manhattan II

D/A Preamplifier-Headphone Amplifier

Ortofon Launches The Windfeld Ti Cartridge

Ortofon, which turns 100 next year, launched the original Windfeld cartridge nearly a decade ago. Named for cartridge designer Per Windfeld—who had just retired at age 75, after 30 years with the company—that top-of-the-line cartridge cost $3400 at the time of its introduction. 

Vinyl Apocalypse

Solving the Lp Shelving Dilemma

Rockport Technologies Avior II Loudspeaker

Following my review of the floorstanding Magico S5 Mk.II last February,1 I spent some time with two-way stand-mounted speakers from Aerial Acoustics, Bowers & Wilkins, and Dynaudio. As much as I appreciated the small speakers’ virtues, I found myself missing the big Magico’s bass extension and ability to play loud; my next loudspeaker review, therefore, would be of another floorstander. 

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me (Again)

Once it was a cherished ritual: come home from the record store, tear off the cellophane, drop the needle, and lose your self in the artwork, the liner notes, the smell of the jacket’s freshly glued seams.

Analog Corner

Do good things come in small packages, or is bigger better? Your call.

Master Quality Authenticated

MQA’s Spencer Chrislu on reaching out to the Record Industry.

Inside CH Precision's P1 Phono Preamplifier

Although Swiss-based CH Precision is a relatively young company, its core design team has been involved in high-performance audio for many years.

All Things To All Musicians

An Artistic Incubator Grows In Brooklyn

Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER

Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER

A New Epoch!

Brooklyn-based Grado Labs has been in business for 64 years, manufacturing moving-iron phono cartridges, headphones, and, for a while, even a unipivot tonearm with a wooden arm wand, as well as the sophisticated, S-shaped Signature Laboratory Standard arm.

Collecting and The Cloud

I’ll inch out on a limb here and say that most audiophiles are also collectors of recordings.

Follow-Up

PEACHTREE AUDIO NOVA300 DAC–INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER Come back, baby. You’ll find a million poems deep in your destitute soul. —Richard Hugo, “Second Chances”

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