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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
Accuphase DG-68
DIGITAL VOICING EQUALIZER
A WallyTool setup update
ANALOG CORNER
500 ISSUES AND COUNTING
STEREOPHILE REACHES A PUBLISHING MILESTONE.
Kind of great
REVINYLIZATION
Dynaudio Confidence 30
LOUDSPEAKER
Stealth and nuance
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
SVS 3000 Micro
SUBWOOFER
BRYCE DESSNER
At a time of solitude, the guitarist and composer focused on connecting.
Thorens TD 124 DD
RECORD PLAYER
Verity Audio Montsalvat DAC/PRE
D/A PROCESSOR