March - April 2024
Audio Discourse
Is it Really all BS? Part 2
Roger Skoff of RSX Technologies at the LAOC Audio Society Gala, December of 2023 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger Skoff...
RP22 Immersive Audio Guidelines v1.0
Norman Varney of AV RoomService Ltd. has joined Positive Feedback as a Senior Technical Editor as of Issue 113. His expertise in his field of audio...
Impressions: Photo Essay of AXPONA 2023 Audio Oasis! Awards, a...
Ye Olde Editor, before the tsunami... Personal tsunami, 2023. Such a strange year for me, one that threw me for a loop right in the midst of the two...
Hardware Reviews
Waters on the Hardware: Mola Mola's Perca Stereo Amplifier,...
Dean Waters at Pacific Audio Fest 2023: A Portrait with a Cigar. (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) About four months ago I...
Bella Sound Kahili Amplifier
Bella Sound is the brain child of Michael Vice. Educated at UC Berkeley and Stanford in Physics and Electrical Engineering, Mike has poured his decades...
Vanguard Scout Loudspeakers from Vera-Fi Audio
I've been reviewing a ton of LPs over the last few years, and to enhance my review process, I set up a dedicated, all-analog system in one of my audio...
WAY Cables: From Serbia with Love
WAY Cables Poetry X Analogue XLR interconnects Despite having access to a pretty wide range of very enticing gear, I really try to avoid the...
CleanerVinyl Ultrasonic Record Cleaner
Playing vinyl is some of the most fun you can have in this hobby. Sliding a record out of its sleeve and setting it on the platter, throwing a switch...
JBL TT350 Classic turntable
To paraphrase Lawrence Welk: there are more new turntables than ever to choose from, good and bad, and this is certainly one of them. That's actually...
The Swiss Digital Fuse Box and the Weakest Link
A Swiss Digital Fuse Box (SDFB for short) is a $395 device that replaces the generic $2 power fuse in high performance audio gear. Yes, you read that...
Vera-Fi Audio VBH-1 Vibration Black Hole Isolation Feet
Since my move to South Carolina, I've been in the process of slowly refining and (hopefully!) finalizing my seemingly ever-evolving audio systems. With...
Interviews
Creating a Musical World With the Slambovian Circus of Dreams
This article is republished from Copper Magazine, edited by Frank Doris, and was written by him. Frank is also a Senior Associate Editor here...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 39
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 231. André Hodeir, American Jazzmen Play André Hodeir's Essais. Savoy Records –...
Music Reviews
Bill Snyder -Themes Of Distinction from Great Motion Pictures
Who the heck was Bill Snyder? Based on the scarce info I could find, William P. Snyder (1916-2011), from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was America's most...
Silvestrov Postludium No. 3
Silvestrov, Postludium No. 3. Matt Haimovitz, cello; Nadia Shpachenko, piano. Pentatone Music PTC5187305 (digital single). TT: 4.53. It's been two...
Jascha Heifetz: The Lark on 180 gram LP from Impex Records
I've had the immense pleasure of being able to evaluate a number of Impex Records' excellent LP releases over the last year or so, with results that...
Hawaiian Holiday
My old friend and former roommate, Dave, suggested that I write about my Leni Okehu record. What a cool idea. The music is a boatload of fun, it's...
More Classic OJC LPs from Craft Recordings, Featuring Cannonball...
Craft Recordings has announced the first group of new titles for 2024 in their Original Jazz Classics (OJC) reboot, featuring three albums that were...
Rhino High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series Continues with Classic...
The Rhino High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series continues with the release of two new titles, and as with the previous group of offerings, the selections...
Horenstein's Mahler Third - Jerry Bruck's Excellent Recording...
A great new listening experience for this well loved performance, perhaps the greatest performance of Mahler's Third Symphony in the catalog. Mahler...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
The Twentieth Century and the Birth of Audio Technology
This article by John Pearsall originally ran in Positive Feedback ISSUE 3 October/November 2002, so while we call this section "New Old Stock -...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
PrimaLuna EVO 100 Tube Phono Preamplifier
Der neue EVO 100 Tube Phono Preamplifier von PrimaLuna gehört zur Premium-Baureihe „Evolution“ des Herstellers und wartet mit einer Reihe.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Flow Three Integrated Amplifier
PREMIERE Flow by Allegro is a Hungarian company, founded in 2018, specializing in audio amplifiers. Its founder and designer is Mr. Bela Teleki, but...
Show Reports
Florida International Audio Expo 2024
One of my favorite audio events every year is the Tampa show. For the past four visits the weather has been sunny and in the 70s every day. This year...