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Analog Corner
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Analog Corner

THIS ISSUE: Zesto’s Andros Téssera phono preamp and Acoustic Signature’s revised Ascona turntable and TA-9000 tonearm.

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July 2017
Follow-Up
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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 . . .

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July 2017
Jason Victor Serinus - Audionet Max
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Jason Victor Serinus - Audionet Max

Monoblock Power Amplifier

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July 2017
New Age.
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New Age.

Having Survived Cancer And New Age, The Solo Pianist Climbs Aboard His Carousel

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July 2017
Enough With The Hobby Already
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Enough With The Hobby Already

As We See It.

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4 mins  |
August 2017
MQA, DRM, And Other Four-letter Words
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MQA, DRM, And Other Four-letter Words

MQA, DRM, And Other Four-letter Words

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7 mins  |
May 2018
PrimaLuna ProLogue Premium
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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.

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November 2016
NAD Masters Series M50.2
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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.

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December 2017
As We See It - Not-So-Giant Steps
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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,

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September 2017
as we see it
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as we see it

steve guttenberg's 116th dream.

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november 2016
Stereophile

Moon by Simaudio Evolution 780D D/A PROCESSOR.

Moon by Simaudio Evolution 780D D/A PROCESSOR.

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August 2016
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Again!)
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Again!)

New Audiophile Reissues Burnish a Proud Legacy.

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June 2017
Listening
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Listening

There was a fight. And when the fight took a turn for the worse and things began being broken and thrown, it was time to leave. Not later. Not soon. Now.

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June 2017
Gramophone Dreams
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Gramophone Dreams

As much as I delight in pagan dreams of sweetly perfumed garden nymphs, I’m embarrassed to admit that my mind also drifts in pleasant reveries whenever I hear the words research and development in the same sentence.

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June 2017
Auralic Altair
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Auralic Altair

D/A Processor.

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March 2017
Both Sides Now
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Both Sides Now

An Interview With Record Producer Joe Harley, of Audioquest and Music Matters Jazz 

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10 mins  |
January 2017
As We See It
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As We See It

THIS ISSUE: Are audiophiles ignoring the most affordable means of achieving true high-end sound?

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4 mins  |
July 2017
Listening
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Listening

THIS ISSUE: A belt-drive turntable with a skeletal plinth, an acrylic platter, and an apparently lowish-torque DC motor. From Serbia.

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July 2017
Record Reviews
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Record Reviews

The blues, that wonderful basis of so much American popular music, has for many listeners grown a bit stale and old-fashioned. It’s not much of a draw outside bar bands, and other than Alligator Records and APO Records, most of the biggest blues labels have folded or gone dormant. Losing many of the music’s first- and secondgeneration practitioners hasn’t helped.

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July 2017
Analog Corner - Notes From The Road
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Analog Corner - Notes From The Road

At audio events held by the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society, I’m usually called on to speechify about one thing or another, or to roast an honoree at one of the Society’s December Galas.1 But at last spring’s Los Angeles Audio Show,2 Bob Levi, the Society’s president, quipped, “This is one awards dinner where you won’t have to entertain—so relax and enjoy!”

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September 2017
Listening - Shindo Redux
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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.

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September 2017
Mytek Hifi Manhattan II
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Mytek Hifi Manhattan II

D/A Preamplifier-Headphone Amplifier

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September 2017
Ortofon Launches The Windfeld Ti Cartridge
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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. 

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August 2017
Vinyl Apocalypse
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Vinyl Apocalypse

Solving the Lp Shelving Dilemma

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9 mins  |
August 2017
Rockport Technologies Avior II Loudspeaker
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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. 

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August 2017
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me (Again)
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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.

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August 2017
Analog Corner
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Analog Corner

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

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November 2016
Master Quality Authenticated
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Master Quality Authenticated

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

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7 mins  |
September 2016
Inside CH Precision's P1 Phono Preamplifier
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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.

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April 2017
All Things To All Musicians
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All Things To All Musicians

An Artistic Incubator Grows In Brooklyn

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9 mins  |
May 2018