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E217: Are You Ready For The Southwest Audio Fest?

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:57:36 +0000

If you saw my coverage of last March’s inaugural Southwest Audio Fest, held at the beautiful Hilton Anatol in Dallas, you’ll recall that this freshman event earned near-universal acclaim from the members of the press. This new event was lauded as showing remarkable potential to become one of the premiere events on the American show circuit.

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E216: Florida's International Audio Expo 2025 and the Crazy Good Chesky LC1

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:56:23 +0000

While I have been trying to go to this show for several years now, thwarted repeatedly by bad weather conditions canceling my flights and making it impractical to reschedule, or last year, with a scheduling conflict for a surgical procedure, I finally made it for the 2025 edition of this event.

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E215: World Premiere: The Børresen Acoustics M2 Loudspeaker

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:55:26 +0000

Many of you will recall that I had the opportunity to be the first to listen to, and report on, the $280,000-a-pair Børresen M3 loudspeakers here at the channel, with Episodes “E140: First Listen: Børresen M3 Loudspeaker,” in September of 2023, and “E158: World Premiere-The Børresen M3 Loudspeaker,” from January of 2024.

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E214: The Audience forte V8 Power Conditioner

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:54:27 +0000

If you’ve been following my “Second Space” series of episodes, which are explorations of considerably more affordable products than those that I more typically cover, like those that are integrated into my own Hyper-Audio reference system, you will know that I’ve recently spent some time covering the amazing work being done by Audience, of San Marcos, California.

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E213: The KRONOS Discovery Phonostage - A New Benchmark

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:53:31 +0000

Today will feature the last episode covering my four-day visit to GTT Audio in Long Valley, NJ, two weeks ago, and will focus on one of the most significant, engaging, and important analog products I’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing, the KRONOS Discovery Phonostage.

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E212: The Audionet Mach and Schrödinger Experience

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:52:31 +0000

In this week’s episode, Bill Parish and I discuss the introduction of the latest products to join the Audionet Scientist Series of electronics, the Mach linestage and the Schrödinger monoblock amplifiers. These products may represent the most important product introduction in Audionet’s nearly three-and-a-half-decade history.

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E211: The KRONOS Perpetual Experience

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:51:42 +0000

Today Bill Parish and I discuss the relevant takeaways, and perhaps the deeper significance of what my latest extended stay at GTT and listen to the production release of the KRONOS Perpetual Turntable may have to offer.

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E210: What's in Store for 2025

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:50:46 +0000

Today we Have a look at what is coming over the first months, and on into the year 2025.

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E209: The Fosi V3/SparkoS SS3602 Full Monty

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:49:46 +0000

Today we take a look at the results of what I am calling the Fosi Audio V3/SparkoS Labs SS3602 “Full Monty.” The V3s, pimped out with a pair of the SS3602s in the two “significant” OpAmp locations, likely used to drive each half of the differential input for the V3s tiny Class-D amplifier chip, the Texas Instruments TPA3116D2, provide some exhilarating performance.

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E208: Audience OHNO and forte F3 Cable Loom

AudioAnalyst — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:47:58 +0000

This week, we’ll explore the advantages that come with implementing a full loom of cabling comprised of the same series of products from a single manufacturer. Specifically, we will take a closer look at the benefits I’ve realized with the installation of a loom of the entry-level series of OHNO cables, including interconnects and speaker cables, and non-captured AC cords, the forte F3 powerChords, from Audience.

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Eydie Gormé

Robert Pincus — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:20:49 +0000

In today's world, Eydie Gormé (1928-2013) is most famous for being part of a successful singing duo with her husband, Steve Lawrence (1935-2024). As a pair, they were successful from the earliest days of stereo LPs and well into the digital era. They also excelled at comedy, and they looked great too. By all accounts,... Read More »

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A Rare Musical Experience with Pianist David Fung

Rushton Paul — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:35:12 +0000

David Fung, Evening Conversations. Yarlung Records 2006 2025 (Pure DSD256) HERE Edit Master Sourced I found myself talking recently on the phone with my friend Bob Attiyeh, the creative founder and visionary of Yarlung Records. I'm always intrigued by these occasional calls with Bob. One never knows whence they may wander. That day, Bob was... Read More »

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Joni Mitchell's Classic "Court and Spark" now on a Pair of Mobile Fidelity Limited Edition UltraDisc One-Step 45 rpm LPs

Tom Gibbs — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:44:05 +0000

Last year Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab began releasing six of Joni Mitchell's most iconic albums, making them all available not only as hybrid SACDs, but also in MoFi's ne plus ultra analog statement format, their UltraDisc One-Step 180 gram LP set. The series began with Ladies of the Canyon (1970), then moved to Joni's deeply... Read More »

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Recent Finds No. 34 New Releases from HDTT

Rushton Paul — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:01:06 +0000

Bob Witrak has been busy these past months with additions to the HDTT catalog. The biggest news is that the International Phonograph Jazz recordings are back! See my earlier note about this great news, HERE. Below are some of the new reissues (not IPI) that have caught my ear in recent weeks. Witches Brew, Alexander... Read More »

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Rare, Limited Edition, and Cool Colored Vinyl LPs from Rhino for Record Store Day April 2025

Tom Gibbs — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:39:16 +0000

Record Store Day typically always takes place on the third Saturday of April in any given year, but for 2025, that date fell on what is a bank holiday across much of the globe, so the date was pushed forward to April 12. Rhino is again offering a broad selection of 47(!) limited edition LPs... Read More »

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Craft Recordings Offers Seven Exclusive and Collectible LPs for Record Store Day April 2025

Tom Gibbs — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:43:50 +0000

Craft Recordings again offers an interesting mix of collectible, limited-edition, rare, and long out-of-print LPs for Record Store Day 2025 (RSD) that's happening on Saturday, April 12. Record Store Day typically always takes place on the third Saturday of April in any given year, but for 2025, that date fell on what is a bank... Read More »

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Recent Finds No. 33 International Phonograph Inc (IPI) Pure DSD256 Transfers are Back!

Rushton Paul — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:03:38 +0000

Let there be rejoicing among fans of Pure DSD recordings—transfers from the IPI analog master tapes to Pure DSD256 are back at HDTT! They disappeared for a while when IPI owner and recording engineer Jonathan Horwich decided to retire and withdrew them. But now the International Phonograph, Inc., catalog is returned to HDTT. These albums... Read More »

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The 2025 Florida International Audio Show

Lee Scoggins — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:58:06 +0000

Lee Scoggins at the 2017 LA Audiophile Show. Los Angeles, CA, 2017 (portrait and image processing by David W. Robinson) It's hard not to love the Tampa show. Always great weather, and the people running the show, including Bart Andeer and team, really care about the experience people are having. This year the show moved... Read More »

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Parasound Halo JC1+ Mono Amplifiers

Mark Pearson — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:07:19 +0000

As an owner of the Parasound JC5 stereo amplifier, I was intrigued to review the mighty JC1+ mono amplifiers in my system. As many of you know, the JC5 was John Curl's attempt to distill as much of the JC1 amplifiers into a single stereo chassis as he could. As good as the JC5 stereo... Read More »

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Waters on the Hardware: Dejitter It's Remarkable Switch X

Dean Waters — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:18:03 +0000

Dean Waters enjoying a fine drink at Munich 2024 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) As lovers of clean, pure, wonderful audio, we spend much time and effort in regard to equipment, power, and cabling, among other things. When it comes to networking, we tend to not give it much thought other than... Read More »

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Early Music from Medieval to Early Renaissance

Rushton Paul — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 03:43:35 +0000

I unabashedly love listening to early music, from medieval to renaissance. And much of this music is for voices. Not all, by a long shot, but there is a lot that is a cappella. Early music will be the theme of today's Recent Finds because this is what has consumed much of my recent listening.... Read More »

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A HiFi Tail Chaser

Roger Skoff — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:51:09 +0000

Roger Skoff writes about your system and the state of our hobby I was talking recently with a friend of mine (also a HiFi Crazy, also in the Industry) about the future of our hobby, and we came to one of those "forehead-slapper" moments—you know, when something finally occurs to you that should have been... Read More »

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k.d. lang, Ingénue and Green Day, American Idiot - Two Classic One-Step Reissues from Because Sound Matters

Robert S. Youman — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:51:58 +0000

k.d. lang, Ingénue. Because Sound Matters, 33 RPM One-Step. $99.98 The k.d. lang, Ingénue One-Step reissue from Because Sound Matters has been an absolute delight from the first day that it arrived! It is clearly my favorite reissue so far this year! I was unfamiliar with this title, yet it has been on constant rotation... Read More »

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Impressions: Long Reflections on the T+A 3100 HV Stack

David W. Robinson — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:56:17 +0000

Ye Olde Editor enjoying a cigar and Single Malt at Tiberias, Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), Israel, 2022. (Photograph by John Robinson; image processing by Ye Olde Editor himself.) A keyboard can be a piano. "It is the artist who, more than other men, is able to create something out of nothing. A whole artistic work... Read More »

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Everything's Archie

Robert Pincus — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:41:36 +0000

A couple of nights prior to performing this finger workout on my keyboard, I had a craving for some vinyl with a male vocalist. I wasn't in the mood for Joe Cocker, Jim Reeves, or Frank Sinatra. I wanted something frothy, and free from deep thought. I just wanted to be swept away by blissful... Read More »

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