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Turntable setup is a diagnostic exercise
ANALOG CORNER
Riviera Audio Laboratories Levante
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
Mingus
REVINYLIZATION
Joe Henderson: Blue Note and Beyond
REDISCOVERIES
Fyne Audio F500SP
LOUDSPEAKER
Bowers & Wilkins 804 D4
The boxes sit there in our storage units, opposite the 20 banker’s boxes that hold 33 years’ worth of product-measurement workbooks. The two large boxes are for the Bowers & Wilkins Matrix 801s my wife owned when we got married in 1987.1 The four smaller boxes are for the B&W John Bowers Silver Signatures and their stands, which I purchased after reviewing them in June 1994.2 Both pairs of speakers gave superb sound quality back in the day, but now they sit there in the storage unit, their boxes giving me recriminatory looks when I visit.
NOT TWISTED
TWISTED SISTER GUITARIST JAY JAY FRENCH HAS A NEW LIFE AFTER MUSIC.
The new ultra-fi
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
Pro-Ject Debut PRO
I enjoy few things more than setting up a turntable. Whether it’s for myself or for a friend—whether it’s a budget model with a layered MDF plinth and nonadjustable tonearm, or a megabuck, state-of-the-art behemoth—I relish the ritual.
Acoustic Signature Montana NEO
You may be moving to Montana.Acoustic Signature is not an overnight sensation, nor are its turntables driven by dental floss. If you’re not a Frank Zappa fan, you probably have no idea what any of that means, so please Google it. I’ll wait till you get back.
REVINYLIZATION
What’s the point?
Accustic Arts AMP V STEREO AMPLIFIER
The $50,000, 176lb Accustic Arts AMP V (pronounced Amp Five) is the heaviest, tall-est, most powerful, most expensive stereo amp to enter my audio system. With rated power of 900Wpc into 8 ohms, 1360Wpc into 4 ohms, and 1500Wpc into 2 ohms, the AMP V, which stands proud at the top of the Accustic Arts amplifier line, surpasses my reference D’Agostino Progression M550’s rated power into 4 ohms by 260Wpc.1
Analog Corner
OMA’s K3 direct-drive turntable and custom Schröder tonearm
Iron and light
GRAMAPHONE DREAMS
MBL 120 Radialstrahler
LOUDSPEAKER
The electrical cure
ANALOG CORNER
Estelon Forza LOUDSPEAKER
EQUIPMENT REPORT
D'Agostino Progression M550
MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
Air Force Zero – Analog Corner
Spring cleaning
Charles Mingus at Carnegie Hall
For the first time on vinyl, Mingu's whole Carnegie Hall concert–not just the second half.
KEN MICALLEF KLH Model Five LOUDSPEAKER
In May of 2019, I heard about a promising jazz vinyl and hi-fi estate sale happening on New York’s Upper East Side. Little did I know then what treasures the dig would yield.
HI-FI LO-FI
20 YEARS OF THE BEST-SOUNDING INDIE ROCK
KALMAN RUBINSON Dirac Live 3 ROOM-CORRECTION SOFTWARE
Adoption of DSP-based speaker-and-room correction in home theater—a parallel universe to audiophilia—is almost universal. It’s easy to understand why.
JASON VICTOR SERINUS Antipodes Audio K50 MUSIC SERVER
On the face of it, playing and streaming digital music files is a straightforward process.
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
The RAAL-requisite HSA-1b headphone and speaker amplifier
LESLIE ANN JONES
RECORDING’S FUTURE NOW
INDUSTRY UPDATE
AUDIO NEWS & VIEWS
TechDAS Air Force Zero
TURNTABLE
My journey to hi-fi
MY BACKPAGES
The next generation
RE-TALES