Stereophile - June 2023

In this issue

Bringing it all back home
After a long career of ironic takes, Robbie Fulks returns to his bluegrass roots.

PS Audio PerfectWave DirectStream MK2 D/A processor
by John Atkinson

Dan D’Agostino Momentum M400 MxV monoblock power amplifier
by Jason Victor Serinus

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS - Stick vs automatic

I wish that all who love LP playback as much as I do could hear a Thorens TD 124 or Garrard 301 or EMT 930 in their systems, but those products are subject to the vagaries of supply and  demand: They are rare and pricey.—ART DUDLEY

6 mins

SPIN DOCTOR

Early hi-fi adventures, and going back to mono.

7 mins

TAD CE1TX - LOUDSPEAKER

The most money I've ever spent on a pair of loudspeakers was back in the early 1990s, when I bought a pair of used TAD TH-4001 wooden horns and their associated TD-4001 compression drivers.

10+ mins

PS Audio PerfectWave DirectStream MK2 - D/A PROCESSOR

When Art Dudley reviewed the original PS Audio Perfect Wave DirectStream D/A processor in Stereophile's September 2014 issue, he very much liked what he heard.

10 mins

VPI Avenger Direct - TURNTABLE

Founded in 1978, VPI Industries appears to be one of the most successful turntable manufacturers in the world-certainly in the US.

10+ mins

Dan D'Agostino Momentum M400 MxV - MONO AMPLIFIER

The Momentum M400 MxV Mono amplifier ($79,500/pair)¹ is the latest iteration of Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems' debut amplifier of 2011, the Momentum Mono amplifier.

10+ mins

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