Greg Weaver, Author at Positive Feedback

New from the audio analyst© - Virtual High End Munich - It's a Wrap!

Greg Weaver — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:13:14 +0000

Following my first three episodes from this year's event, these wrap-up event episodes bring you my final three sets of coverage, each addressing three remarkable rooms. Can you say World Premieres? In this episode, I explore the world premiere of the Kronos Discover Phono stage, the Göble Divin Comtesse loudspeakers, and Alon Wolf's Magico S5... Read More »

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New from the audio analyst©, Part 3 – Virtual High End Munich – And You Thought AXPONA 2024 was Big!

Greg Weaver — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:37:25 +0000

While AXPONA represents the largest hi-fi show in the US, High End Munich, held each May at Munich's monstrous Order Center, is the largest, most well-attended audio show on planet Earth! With the first of my episodes from this year's event, episode 175, I've included a virtual walk from the stairway in front of the... Read More »

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New from the audio analyst©, Part 2 - What’s Causing the Stir in Affordable Audio Gear Today?

Greg Weaver — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 22:16:31 +0000

David W. Robinson and Greg Weaver: Audio buds from way-back! Long Valley, NJ, 2023. (photograph by Bill Parish) I make no excuses for being able to listen to my music daily on a synergistic two-channel audio system that I've assembled over the decades, one that costs more than three times what I paid for my... Read More »

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New from the audio analyst©, Part 1: Virtual AXPONA 2024

Greg Weaver — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:36:49 +0000

New from the audio analyst© for re-publication in Positive Feedback – Virtual AXPONA 2024 If you've never been to an audio show, especially one as large and comprehensive as the foremost, most successful show in the continental US, AXPONA, which is an acronym made from Audio eXPO NOrth America, held annually at the Renaissance Schaumburg... Read More »

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Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Best Rooms - High End by Oz

Greg Weaver — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:22:15 +0000

With this episode of the audio analyst©, "Episode 167: Southwest Audio Fest 2024-Best Rooms - High End by Oz," I’m highlighting the remarkable sonic achievements of Room 1401 at that show. It was sponsored by 3mA, a Houston retail establishment, United Home Audio, and High End by Oz. This is the first of several in-room... Read More »

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the audio analyst© Episode 160: Vienna - Chasing Beethoven

Greg Weaver — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:04:31 +0000

My fascination with and appreciation of Beethoven's work began even before my relatively formal introduction to his vast body of work and influence on Western music which came in junior high school, where I not only had Miss Bloom's music class once a week throughout the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades, but also sat in... Read More »

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LAST Factory Stylus and Record Care Products

Greg Weaver — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:24:32 +0000

Among the more popular topics receiving vigorous traction on social media and public forums are discussions about the derisive and conflicting beliefs and approaches on how to clean and maintain our record collections. For those of us old-school audiophiles, aging stalwarts who have NEVER not known the benefits and caveats of vinyl playback, such processes... Read More »

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Hana Umami Red Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

Greg Weaver — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:32:49 +0000

Just How Close to World-Class Performance Can You Get for $3950? Perspective Before I acquaint you with what an emphatically notable performer the Hana Umami Red Moving Coil phono cartridge represents in today's blustering moving coil cartridge roster, permit me a brief foray into the background of the phono cartridge. There are two primary types... Read More »

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Loudspeaker Cables - Simple Passive Connection or Complex Dynamic Component?

Greg Weaver — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:57:17 +0000

As part of Positive Feedback's "New Old Stock" [NOS] series of reprints, Greg Weaver's article from 1997 is presented as a significant article worthy of renewed presentation here. This article was originally written in 1988 and appeared in Volume 1, Issue 2, of the audio analyst©, Winter 1989. It was updated and re-published in Volume... Read More »

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AXPONA 2023…Greg Weaver on the YouTube Front!

Greg Weaver — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:01:40 +0000

Greg Weaver checking out...Greg Weaver! AXPONA 2023 was as stirring a success as portended! Here is a link to my promotional episode highlighting the then upcoming 2023 Audio eXPo North America event. https://youtu.be/39Xda-_nCao Now that it is in the books, I can't believe how many of you stopped me in the halls to say hello... Read More »

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YouTube Video from Greg Weaver: GTT Audio Launches Vivid Audio Distribution with a Major Event!

Greg Weaver — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:06:05 +0000

David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Positive Feedback, with Greg Weaver of the audio analyst and a Senior Associate Editor at Positive Feedback in New Jersey for the GTT Audio Vivid Audio launch event. (Photograph by Bill Parish; image processing by David W. Robinson.) The first weekend in March saw a substantial press event hosted by GTT Audio... Read More »

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The AGD Productions Gran Vivace Monoblock Amplifier

Greg Weaver — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:29:59 +0000

Classy Operation A class-D amplifier, or switching amplifier, all too often mistakenly referred to as a "digital" amplifier, differs from the much more traditional and popular linear amplifier classes. In a switching amplifier, its transistors, usually MOSFETs (Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors), rather than directly providing gain to the sourced signal, operate as electronic switches. The audio... Read More »

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Now Playing - Part 4: David Crosby and Dream Theater

Greg Weaver — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:01:43 +0000

David Crosby, If I Could Only Remember My Name. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, MFSL 2-496, Original Master Recording, Gain 2™ Ultra Analog, 2 x 12" 45 RPM SuperVinyl™ 180g LPs, Numbered Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold, 2022 First up...the spring 2022 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, 2 X 45 RPM, limited, numbered remastered reissue on... Read More »

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A YouTube Interview on DSD with Playback Design's Andreas Koch, Part Two

Greg Weaver — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:17:22 +0000

Some viewers of our first conversation on my YouTube channel, the audio analyst© "Episode 89: Andreas Koch and Digital Recording" (https://youtu.be/eH-WW5s3NBM), which dropped on September 25th of this year, suggested that the information he shared was not only utterly fascinating, but was actually revelatory. With that in mind, Andreas was kind enough to join me... Read More »

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Greg Weaver's the audio analyst YouTube Interview with Andreas Koch about DSD

Greg Weaver — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:57:19 +0000

Greg Weaver of the audio analyst and I have been working to extend our readers/viewers understanding of DSD at all levels, including the use of DSD256 in the production of LPs, such as Mobile Fidelity has been doing for a number of years now. Other companies like ABKCO have done the same in projects like... Read More »

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YouTube Video from the Audio Analyst: Mobile Fidelity and the use of DSD256 in Mastering LPs

Greg Weaver — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:39:05 +0000

The ocean swells of the recent controversy about Mobile Fidelity and its unannounced (until now) use of DSD256 continue to roil, whether useful or not. Greg Weaver and I had a long conversation about this, provenance, processing, and the (to my mind) vital role that DSD256 has to play in the future of analog LP... Read More »

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Now Playing - Part 3

Greg Weaver — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:58:41 +0000

James Gang, Bang, SD 7037, ATCO Records, 1973 By the end of the 1960s, following the emergence of such dynamic UK-based trios as Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, one of the brightest trios to appear on the subsequent American scene was the James Gang. Though founded by drummer Jim Fox in 1966 with fellow... Read More »

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Saturday Night In San Francisco: A Forty-Two-Year-Old Triumph

Greg Weaver — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:18:41 +0000

I can’t imagine that there are too many readers of this journal who will not be familiar with, or at least aware of, the renowned 1981 landmark guitar trio release, Friday Night in San Francisco. Treasured by music lovers and audiophiles alike, jazz author and critic Walter Kolosky has proclaimed it “…the most influential of... Read More »

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KRONOS Discovery Resonance Suppression Tonearm

Greg Weaver — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:17:01 +0000

Three weeks ago, I had the pleasure of introducing you to the two new KRONOS Resonance Suppression tonearms, the Kronoscope RS and the Discovery RS. In that episode's interview with Louis Desjardins, recorded in his factory in Montreal, he indicated that he would be sending me one of the new Discovery RS arms to install... Read More »

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Now Playing - Part 2

Greg Weaver — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:21:44 +0000

Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble, Couldn't Stand The Weather. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, UD1S 2-007, UltraDisc One-Step, Original Master Recording, 2 x 12" 45 RPM SuperVinyl 180g LPs, Numbered Limited Edition, Remastered, Deluxe Edition Box Set, 2021 First up...the 2021 Mobile Fidelity Ultra Disc 1 Step remaster (UD1S 2-007) as two, 12-inch 45 RPM LPs... Read More »

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Now Playing - Part 1

Greg Weaver — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:21:01 +0000

Today I am pleased to introduce what will be a new series of articles, one which will feature closer looks at some of my favorite recordings. I have been posting such "snapshots" of many of my favorite LPs on Facebook for years as abbreviated takes on specific recordings, often digging into the history and significance... Read More »

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An Audio Triangulation, Part 1…The KRONOS Discovery LP Playback System: Sui Generis

Greg Weaver — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 23:57:18 +0000

Greg Weaver, a fresco portrait. Chicago, 2018 (photograph and fresco image processing by David W. Robinson) It should come as no real surprise that paradigm shifts in the performance capabilities of hyper-audio gear come rarely. In my fifty-plus years in and around this industry, I have witnessed scant few. The first came in the early... Read More »

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Greg Weaver — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 22:08:40 +0000

A portrait of Greg Weaver, Chicago, 2018. Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson. Greg Weaver is a very good audiobud of mine. I first became aware of him back in the 90s, when I received a copy of his the audio analyst newsletter. His prose and commentary on LPs were top-notch. I got... Read More »

Albert Von Schweikert: In Memoriam

Greg Weaver — Sun, 31 May 2020 18:26:49 +0000

Albert Von Schweikert, March 13, 1945 – May 29, 2020. Founder and Chief Designer: Von Schweikert Research/Von Schweikert Audio Though born in South America in 1945 to a US military officer and the daughter of one of the principal engineers of the Panama Canal, the Von Schweikert family moved to Heidelberg, Germany while he was still... Read More »

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The Parasound Halo JC 1+ Mono Amplifier: Slayer of Giants?

Greg Weaver — Wed, 06 May 2020 14:35:49 +0000

From The Beginning… If you are unfamiliar with the name John Curl, you clearly haven't been around the audio industry long. As one of the most accomplished and recognized solid-state electronics designers of all-time, his work has given us of some of the most ground-breaking and performance-setting components in our industry's history. Starting to distinguish... Read More »

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