CATEGORIES
Audio Quest Dragonfly Cobalt
USB D/A–HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER
Manger P1 Loudspeaker
Everyone who reads my loudspeaker re-views knows: I wish box speakers did not sound like box speakers.
2019 Stereophile's 28th Annual - Product Of The Year Awards
The first vote I ever cast was in 1964, when I was 10 years old.
Ken Micallef-Trenner & Friedl Osiris
Loudspeaker
Thomas J. Norton-Monitor Audio Gold 300
Loudspeaker
John Atkinson - Vandersteen Quatro Wood CT & M5-HPA
LOUDSPEAKER & MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
Michael Fremer - darTZeel NHB-468
MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
Jason Victor Serinus-Grand Prix Audio Monza
EQUIPMENT SUPPORTS
Herb Reichert - JBL Stage A170
LOUDSPEAKER
The Wizard Of Boulder
Ayre acoustics’ Charley Hansen talks about what he believes important in music reproduction.
Of Headphones To Come
I figured it was coming, but it wasn’t until just after I’d returned from the Audio Engineering Society’s 2016 International Conference on Headphone Technology1— held last August in Aalborg, Denmark—and was writing up my report and summary on the event for InnerFidel ity.com2 that I knew for sure: Headphones are about to change . . . a lot.
Music Hall Audio MMF-7.3
Turntable
Power Tripping
Some of our readers seem to believe that the essence of high-quality audio is disclosed primarily by science, and not by dreamy, bodice-ripping adventures that take place on plush carpets behind closed doors.
Analog Corner
CH Precision’s P1 phono preamplifier, which I wrote about in the April 2017 issue, is not going back to its manufacturer.
The Permanent Jazz Festival
The Rise of Europe and the Future of Jazz.
Bowers & Wilkins 805 D3
I have had a long relationship with Bowers & Wilkins.
Aerial Acoustics 5T
Long-lived loudspeaker models are rare.
The Tight Lines Project
WE LAST RELEASED A RECORDING ON THE STEREOPHILE LABEL SIX YEARS AGO—A JAZZ ALBUM FEATURING ATTENTION SCREEN, THE LATE BOB REINA’S FREE-JAZZ ENSEMBLE. THIS DRY SPELL WAS MAINLY DUE TO THE INCREASING DEMANDS MADE ON OUR EDITORIAL TEAM’S TIME BY SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE MAGAZINE’S WEBSITE, BUT ALSO BY JOHN ATKINSON’S RECORDING ACTIVITIES WITH THE PORTLAND STATE CHAMBER CHOIR, WHO ISSUE THEIR RECORDINGS ON THEIR OWN LABEL. NEVERTHELESS, WE’VE BEEN KEEPING OUR EYES AND EARS OPEN FOR SUITABLE OPPORTUNITIES.
The Virtues of Vintage
They don’t make ’em like they used to.
Bel Canto Design e. One REF600M- Monoblock Power Amplifier
Has it really been more than seven years since I reviewed Bel Canto’s REF1000M monoblock?1
Analog Corner
THIS ISSUE: Zesto’s Andros Téssera phono preamp and Acoustic Signature’s revised Ascona turntable and TA-9000 tonearm.
Follow-Up
The words right and wrong and good and bad make me uncomfortable. Assigning virtue or value is against my religion. And thinking that I know the best way to design a loudspeaker, amplifier, or record player would only prove that I’m a conceited old fool. Therefore . . .
Jason Victor Serinus - Audionet Max
Monoblock Power Amplifier
New Age.
Having Survived Cancer And New Age, The Solo Pianist Climbs Aboard His Carousel
Enough With The Hobby Already
As We See It.
MQA, DRM, And Other Four-letter Words
MQA, DRM, And Other Four-letter Words
PrimaLuna ProLogue Premium
Let us pretend . . . you have a pair of loudspeakers that have proven themselves to sound articulate and musically responsive in your room, without excess boom, bloom, or frail leanness.
NAD Masters Series M50.2
Back in May 2014, I reviewed NAD’s Masters Series M50 Digital Music Player ($2499) and M52 Digital Music Vault ($1999 with 2TB storage). 1 At the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, NAD announced the M50.2, which is almost identical to the original M50 but now incorporates two 2TB hard disks, arranged as a 2TB RAID array, to ensure data integrity, and adds TosLink and coaxial digital inputs, Bluetooth with aptX for streaming music from a smartphone or tablet, and two single-ended analog inputs—all for $3999, or $499 less than the combined cost of the two earlier products.
As We See It - Not-So-Giant Steps
I’m a thirty-year-old puppy doing what I’m told And I’m told there’s no more coal for the older engines,” —ANDY PARTRIDGE,
as we see it
steve guttenberg's 116th dream.