HiFi Rose RS520 - STREAMING INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

My first car was a decrepit, mustard-yellow Peugeot 304 with a navy hood. The blue hue wasn't a fashion statement; after an accident, the previous owner had gone to a salvage yard where only a blue replacement could be procured.

SPIN DOCTOR - Swiss precision

In 1928, Swiss engineer and inventor Jean-Léon Reutter created a clock that could run for years without human interaction or any type of external power source. The Atmos Clock required no AC power, batteries, solar panels, or hand-winding. It was able to wind itself by leveraging subtle changes in atmospheric pressure and temperature.

BRILLIANT CORNERS - Come Hell or High Water

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city,\" John Steinbeck wrote in 1953. \"But there is one thing about it-once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.\" Decades later, the novelist's insight about this appalling, incomparable city still feels true.

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS - An affordable purist amplifier with punch

It was a cold March-in-Brooklyn morning. Clouds had been shedding wintery mix since daybreak. By 9am, birds were flash-mobbing my window, demanding suet. But I was frozen-unable to pull my mind loose from the grave flowings of American composer Ned Rorem's Book of Hours, as performed by Les Connivences Sonores on the album Musikalische Perlen (24/48 FLAC, Ars Produktion/Qobuz). The sounds in my room were sensuous and mesmerizing, and I needed to float in their mysterious energy as long as I could.

AVM Inspiration CS 2.3 - CD RECEIVER

In the 1960s, my dad gave me a Panasonic receiver with two cube speakers, just in time for the advent of FM stereo radio in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SPIN DOCTOR

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

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

MY BACK PAGES

A masterpiece as it is painted

RE-TALES

Goodbye to gatekeeping

REVINYLIZATION

In soul's kitchen with Jaws and the Queen

RABBIT HOLES

Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations from 1981

AURAL ROBERT

Bob Meets Burt

Arvus H2-4D

16-CHANNEL DIGITAL AUDIO RENDERER

Mastersound Compact 845

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

Moon by Simaudio Voice 22

LOUDSPEAKER

Karan Acoustics Master Collection POWERa Mono

MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER

BRILLIANT CORNERS

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something Blue

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS

Two at the Top

THE BEATLES, REANIMATED

GILES MARTIN TALKS ABOUT THE BEATLES’ REMIXED, REINVENTED REVOLVER: SPECIAL EDITION

Nessie Vinylcleaner ProPlus+, RECORD CLEANING MACHINE

I ’m a music lover first, not the most Type A of audiophiles. Sure, I clean my records, but I’m not obsessive about keeping them immaculate like my audiophile father is;1 he cleans each record ultrasonically before it lands on his turntable platter, writing the date of each record’s last bath and which cleaning machine he used on the outside of a fresh plastic inner sleeve before sliding the LP back inside.

Primare PRE35 Prisma STREAMING PREAMPLIFIER

Hygge might not be the first word that comes to mind when contemplating the Primare PRE35 Prisma preamplifier, but in Limhamn, Sweden, that is how Primare likes to describe their products.

NAD C 3050 LE, BLUOS STREAMING INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

Although NAD was founded in England in 1972 as New Acoustic Dimension, my introduction to the brand was in 1980. I bought an NAD 3020 integrated amplifier after hearing it successfully drive Acoustic Research’s current-hungry AR9 loudspeakers.

Esoteric Grandioso M1X, MONO AMPLIFIER

Of all the brand lines I’ve reviewed, none’s sound has changed as much over time as Esoteric’s top-tier Grandioso series. When I first encountered Grandioso setups at shows, they consistently sounded dark.

Klipsch La Scala AL5

There’s a good case to be made that the world’s greatest— and strangest—audiophile culture resides in Japan. Probably the most important notion the Japanese have introduced to our hobby is that home audio isn’t merely a way of heightening the musical art of others but can be an art in itself.

Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Albert Murray

Among the musical

At My Window by Townes Van Zandt

Revinylization