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Today, I’m bringing you the first episode chronicling my visit to Magico to experience Alon Wolf’s crowning achievement, the M9 loudspeaker. All I will add further is that this visit turned out to be among the most amazing single listening experiences in my five decades in and around this industry.

Today, I am happy to introduce you to the amazing Dynamic Sounds Associates Phono III ($19,000), the most user-friendly, easiest to adjust, and most fully modifiable phono stage I have ever seen, regardless of price, offering not only world-class sonic performance, but an otherwise unmatched level of both convenience and flexibility. This is my current... Read More »

Today, my good friend and colleague, Maurice Jeffries, a gifted listener and writer, who currently contributes to Positive Feedback and Enjoy the Music, joins me once again in a discussion in my listening room. This time, we talk about listening, identifying, and understanding our own listening biases, and developing and making the most of our... Read More »

Some viewers of our first conversation here on the channel, “Episode 89: Andreas Koch and Digital Recording,” which was posted on September 25th of this year, suggested that the information he shared was not only utterly fascinating, but was actually revelatory to some.

With Heavy Rotation, Vol. III Episode, I focus on the release of “Saturday Night in San Francisco.” We as music lovers and audiophiles should consider ourselves so very fortunate to have been given yet another bite at the remarkable summit of performances from the stellar trio who gave us Friday Night in San Francisco some... Read More »

Now that the new Impex LP release of “Saturday Night In San Francisco” is shipping, Abey Fonn, the founder of Impex Records, joins us today to answer some of my questions, and to share some behind-the-scenes details about this remarkable recording.

Today’s guest is Dr. David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Positive Feedback, respected and renowned journalist, and my audio pal and colleague of some 25 years now. As we both have had extended listening time with game-changing KRONOS Discovery turntable and Resonance Suppression tonearms, we will discuss why we have both concluded that this combination of... Read More »

Today brings the second installment of my “Heavy Rotation” series where I cover a couple of records that have been stand outs for me since their release – the first in 1984 and the second in 1991. Both of today’s releases benefit from the superlative care and deserved attention they have received as relatively recent... Read More »

Today we meet another colleague and audio friend, Dr. Michael R. Bump, a musician, composer, and Professor of Music for approaching forty years. And he is an audio equipment reviewer! Think about what his experience as a musician, composer, and teacher may bring to the skill sets of a reviewer!

Today, I am both pleased and honored to introduce you to the Supreme Series of electronics from True Life Audio of Greece. Importer, colleague, and friend, Bill Parish, has just begun to import the entire True Life Audio product lineup to the US, and I was privileged enough to spend some considerable time listening to... Read More »

Today I am joined by my colleague and good friend, Maurice Jeffries, a gifted listener, and writer, who currently contributes to Positive Feedback and Enjoy the Music. He recently made a three-day pilgrimage to the Midwest to spend time in my music room listening to my current reference rig, and weighs in on vinyl in... Read More »

As of the time this episode drops, we are just six-and-a-half weeks away (I know I said two-and-a-half weeks in the episode - I shot too many episodes this week!) from the eleventh annual Capital Audiofest, held at the Twinbrook Hilton in Rockville Maryland, November 11th through 13th!

Today, we’ll hear from a friend who has some ridiculous credentials, as he weighs in the world of digital recording, Andreas Koch. He has the distinction of having been a member of, or the leader, of the design teams for development of proprietary DSD, as well as many other technologies for Digital to Analog conversion... Read More »

Today, I’m sharing two recordings made of my reference system playing music in my room. You may see a full listing of all the gear in my current reference system, as well as room and treatment information, here...   Both recordings were made at 24-bit/48kHz, one from a digital file, one from an LP.