Audio-Technica AT-LP8x Turntable
09-06-2025 | By Ed Kobesky
What happened to all of the luxury Japanese turntables? You know the ones I mean: those tall, chunky, rosewood-veneered JVCs and Denons and even Hitachis, with their fully-automatic feature sets, dead-on direct drive...
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Charisma Audio™ Caprisse...
09-05-2025 | By Douglas Seth Brown
So you want to travel back in time to the mid-1970s to buy a brand new (back then) 1975-era pair of Quad ESL-57 loudspeakers. Okay… I get it. The primary difficulty, of course, is that all of your efforts to build a time...
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Starkrimson Mono Ultra Premium...
09-05-2025 | By John Hoffman
Rarely does technology trickle up into the high-end realm of two-channel audio playback. Yet, in the case of Class D amplification, this has indeed happened. The Class D circuit was invented in the mid-1950s by Alec Reeves,...
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PS Audio Stellar DAC
08-29-2025 | By Dean Seislove
Kapow! Right in the noggin! Wobbling like a UFO saucer in the finest Ray Harryhausen tradition, the record sailed crazily in the air, then jetted straight into the hapless boy's forehead. Score! A direct hit! The lesson here...
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The Premier of Two Extraordinary...
08-18-2025 | By Robert H. Levi
Bob Levi, a portrait. (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) I am delighted to have the first opportunity to experience the perfected Schumann Generator S1 and the Inline Speaker Signature Silver for the...
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RAY Tubes Shootout: Reserve KT88's...
08-17-2025 | By Tom Gibbs
When Nelson Wu, CEO of RAY Tubes offered earlier this year to send a full complement of RAY Select and Reserve tubes for evaluation in my PrimaLuna EVO 300 tube integrated amplifier, I jumped at the chance. I've never looked...
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The Power and Precision of ATC...
08-15-2025 | By Juan C. Ayllon
Backdrop loudspeaker drivers image courtesy of ATC Like a surgeon's scalpel, the ATC SCM40A loudspeaker is a serious instrument, deftly cutting through sinew, fat, and bone to the heart of music with surgical precision and...
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Zu Audio Method Bookshelf...
08-12-2025 | By Dean Seislove
A colleague once postulated that audio gear invariably sounds like the people who make it. The line of thinking goes that, if the person is big and bold, then their speakers look and sound the part. High-energy, constantly...
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Node Audio SS-1 Component Support
08-05-2025 | By Marshall Nack
While browsing the photo gallery on the Node Audio website, I came across a group shot of five finely crafted, elegantly designed objects. They appeared to be variations on a theme, but what was the theme—what were they...
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A Clean Sweep? A Look at the iSonic...
08-01-2025 | By Juan C. Ayllon
It seems a lifetime ago. For my side hustle as a mobile DJ, I honed my beat-matching and mixing skills with a pair of Technics 1200 turntables at home to apply on the road with a Pioneer CMX-3000 Dual DJ CD player, but after...
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Waters on the Hardware: The Gingko...
07-23-2025 | By Dean Waters
The Maestro himself! (Portrait and image processing by David W. Robinson) My LP life When writing audio reviews, reviewers are often called on to describe things we readily hear that aren't always easily quantifiable. We use...
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Aurender's A1000 Network Music...
07-22-2025 | By Tom Gibbs
Over the course of the last twenty-five-years, I've carved out a fairly satisfying niche in audio journalism. One that finds me most often focused on reasonably priced gear that frequently performs beyond its price...
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Follow-up: Vera-Fi Audio's Line...
07-14-2025 | By Tom Gibbs
When Mark Schifter hooked me up with the first two devices from Vera-Fi Audio's new trio of power conditioning equipment, I simply wasn't prepared for the dramatic differences they made to my all-analog system. That system...
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Waters on the Hardware: The...
07-11-2025 | By Dean Waters
Dean Waters: a portrait at home (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Not long ago, I penned an article reviewing the Dejitter It Switch X product (HERE) and how it can substantially enhance the audio...
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ONO Tone Labs a3 Standmount...
06-21-2025 | By Tom Gibbs
ONO Tone Labs is a new loudspeaker manufacturer based in Kahului, Maui, in Hawaii, and is the brainchild of Dustin (or if you prefer, "Dusty") Vawter. Dustin has been involved in audio design and production for over 35...
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Ortofon MC X20 Moving Coil Phono...
06-21-2025 | By Ed Kobesky
Hard to believe, but the first time I reviewed an Ortofon cartridge for PF was way back in the fall of 2008 (read it HERE). The company had just introduced their then-new 2M series of affordable moving magnets that were...
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