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

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

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