SONUS FABER INTRODUCES THE NEW CONCERTINO, A NEW EDITION LOUNDSPEAKER THAT COMBINES HERITAGE AND INNOVATION July 26, 2024 – Sonus faber is pleased to announce the launch of the Concertino G4, the fourth edition of the brand’s iconic Concertino speaker. A continuation of Sonus faber’s storied legacy of exceptional sound and high-quality Italian craftsmanship, the... Read More »
The P1 Digital Audio Player is part of a new series of products launched by Astell&Kern which focus on promoting an active lifestyle, with music as the companion on your journey. With the P1, music isn't just a background; it's the force that propels your life forward. The P1 by Astell&Kern features premium sound playback of a... Read More »
Two new immersive music streaming playlists feature songs mixed or mastered on Focal Speakers Montreal, Canada — July 30, 2024 — Focal Naim America, a leading North American importer and distributor of premium consumer and professional electronics brands, has released two new immersive HD audio playlists, with songs “Mixed on Focal” pro monitors and some mastered with Focal Utopia Hi-Fi speakers.... Read More »
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with IASCA, SQology, and Florida Sound Quality to bring car audio to the 2025 show. While many might instantly associate car audio with bass thumpers, I know many of you are familiar with the sound quality competition mindset and the level of care and detail that goes... Read More »
This Friday, July 26th Rhino is unveiling the next collection of high-quality quadraphonic releases. Unavailable for nearly half a century, four legendary titles have been digitized from their original analog four-track Quad mixes - Bette Midler’s The Divine Miss M (1972), Bread’s Baby I’m-A Want You (1972), Duke Ellington’s New Orleans Suite (1970), and Graham Central Station’s Self-Titled (1974). The collection will be... Read More »
Rhino continues their High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series with a pair of classic new reissues of albums that were both released within the same year, 1974. Including Yes' seventh studio album and their first in the aftermath of Rick Wakeman's departure, Relayer (Atlantic Records), along with Bad Company's hard-rocking eponymous debut, Bad Company (Swan Song... Read More »
In 2020 Network Acoustics arrived with their market defining passive Ethernet Filter, the original eno. With an eno in your system, the music-obsessed founders, Rich and Rob, demonstrated that they were on their way to capturing the magical sound of their cherished vinyl in streamed music, but without the crackles and pops! The all-new eno2 features... Read More »
Orchard Audio Upgrades Their Top Starkrimson Ultra Stereo Amps With an Active RCA Input Option Succasunna, New Jersey: Orchard Audio’s 500W Starkrimson Ultra stereo amplifiers just received a big upgrade. Revision 2.5 builds upon revision 2.0 by adding a built-in active RCA-to-XLR converter. This means the amplifiers can now be used with both single-ended (RCA)... Read More »
Craft Recordings' continues to crank out new releases in the second group of reissue titles for 2024 in their Original Jazz Classics (OJC) franchise reboot. This time, featuring their latest, The John Wright Trio's 1960 neglected classic, South Side Soul on Prestige Records. When I originally saw the list of the four albums being made... Read More »
Black Cat Cable, under the stewardship of Mayu Sommovigo, continues to uphold Christopher Sommovigo's legacy of crafting exceptional audio cables. With a commitment to preserving his artistry and dedication to quality, Black Cat Cable remains dedicated to providing audiophiles with top-notch products. We are excited to announce that Black Cat Cable is seeking dealers to... Read More »
Harold Tichenor is a Real-to-Reel (RTR) tape archivist with over 40 years of experience as a professional. His prior article for Positive Feedback was an important summary of RTR provenance and tape generations, which I highly recommend to our readers. In this article, Harold outlines the history and elementals of RTR tape reproduction. It is... Read More »
...and host a seminar on Loudspeaker Design. At the upcoming California Audio Show 2024, frontRow interconnects and speaker cables are the finest the company has ever created. Available in a complete range of balanced and unbalanced interconnect, phono, digital, speaker and power cables, frontRow incorporates the company’s MORRE (Musically Optimized Reduction of Resistive Energies)... Read More »
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 236. Charlie Mingus, Blues & Roots. Atlantic – SD 1305 (1960), 33 1/3 rpm, Analogue Productions – APA 001-45 (2023), Atlantic 75 Audiophile Series, (2x45 rpm). Genre: experimental big band, avant garde jazz, blues, hardbop, swing. Here is a great album featuring six tracks including the well... Read More »
Rhino Entertainment has just launched their Sounds of the Summer LP series, which features a slate of 24 limited edition LP releases, with most of them being offered in deep sea blue colored-vinyl versions. The multitude of releases traverses a broad range of genres and artists, and includes catalog album reissues, greatest hits packages, and... Read More »
JCAT, a leader in high-performance streaming-specific products, is proud to announce the release of the USB Card XE EVO, an enhanced version of the highly acclaimed USB Card XE. This new model brings significant improvements and innovations, setting a new standard for USB audio performance. Building on Excellence The USB Card XE EVO is designed... Read More »
I've spent decades searching my butt off for interesting and well-recorded albums, all while some albums, including some really good ones, were just sitting in my path. Just Turn Me Loose (Epic BN 26037) by actor-singer George Maharis (1928-2023) is a prime example of an album that was just sitting and waiting for me to... Read More »
Greetings friends, and welcome to Chapter 15 of the Acoustic Revive Chronicles! You can see a list of the previous chapters of the Acoustic Revive Chronicles in the archives HERE. In Chapter 15 of the Acoustic Revive Chronicles I'll be telling you about the new RTS-30 turntable mat, RHS-1 headshell, RHR-21 Helmholtz resonator, and the... Read More »
9th July, 2024: Englewood, Colorado – Monarch Systems Ltd. is elated to announce our appointment as the official North American distribution partner of SME, manufacturer of a broad range of turntables and tonearms. SME was founded in 1946 as The Scale Model Equipment Company, but it wasn’t until 1959 that founder Alastair Robertson-Aikman transitioned the business... Read More »
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 »
A high-fidelity solution for integrated amplifiers and legacy audio equipment, the new SoundPath adapter converts speaker-level outputs to RCA line-level outputs for safe, pristine signal transfer to a powered subwoofer. July 9, 2024 - Youngstown, OH – SVS, leading manufacturer of high-performance speakers, subwoofers, and wireless audio products, proudly announces the addition of the SVS... Read More »
Rhino Entertainment has just released the Super Deluxe Edition of progressive rock titans Yes' fourth studio album, 1971's Fragile. Now available in an expansive multi-disc box set, Fragile: Super Deluxe Edition (SDE) offers media choices that will satisfy all listeners. The unusual package design features an LP-sized gatefold jacket that matches the band's recent SDE... Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lone Star Audiofest and T.H.E. Show Announce Groundbreaking Partnership Premiering T.H.E. Lone Star Audiofest in Austin, TX in Late Spring 2025 Austin, TX – [Date] – Lone Star Audiofest and T.H.E. Show, America's longest-running HiFi show, are excited to announce a landmark cooperative venture. This collaboration will culminate in the premiere of... Read More »
Dire Straits Live 1978-1992 Let me get right to the point! The sound quality of each and every reissue in this box set is absolutely magnificent! There are many reasons, but three are extremely important. All of the vinyl was mastered by Andy Walter at Abbey Road and cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman... Read More »
Ye Olde Editor delivering the goods, Corvallis, Oregon, 1972. (Photograph by John Hull.) Yes, I've always been this way. Munich has come and gone...so has my serious bout with pneumonia...and I'd like to get my AXPONA 2024 Audio Oasis! Awards published before any more time goes by. (These are two big shows that are too... Read More »
Reprinted with permission from Copper magazine. Michael Fremer needs little introduction to Copperreaders. He's been a stalwart of the high-end audio industry for decades, and is currently the editor of The Tracking Angleand editor at large at The Absolute Sound. He has been a champion of vinyl since long before the days in the early 1980s when the "Perfect... Read More »
Roger Skoff writes about audiophilia No matter how busy we are with home, family, making or spending money, or any of our other more mundane concerns, all of us have time and resources that are not demanded for something else, and things that we do or enjoy for no reason other than simply that we... Read More »
This article by Steve Lefkowicz originally ran in Positive Feedback's ISSUE 60 March/April 2012, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are also going to see some articles from our early days of going online. This might be a little longer than normal introduction. Those... Read More »
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue*; An American in Paris; Cuban Overture. Ivan Davis, piano*; Cleveland Orchestra/Lorin Maazel. Copland, Appalachian Spring; Fanfare for the Common Man. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta. London Jubilee 417 716-2. TT: 71.17 For me, as a professional musician and a professional listener, life doesn't always allow much time for repeat listening. But I find it instructive... Read More »
Woodinville, WA – Genesis Advanced Technologies, Inc. (Genesis) is proud and honored to announce a partnership with IBEX AUDIO GmbH for the distribution of Genesis loudspeakers and other products in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Genesis has been producing high-end loudspeakers since 1991 in the USA. The current Genesis products are proudly made in Woodinville in the... Read More »
Tony Furtado Duo- Peggy O: https://youtu.be/C9bWI68QHIY Tony Furtado (solo) slide blues from the backyard: https://youtu.be/3-o_CJatzKk Tony Furtado Band - Golden (Broken): https://youtu.be/vNeNgb7abAoTony Furtado Band - Live at Mississippi Studios- "Bawds of Euphony": https://youtu.be/W1myUaATzq4 Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. Tony is... Read More »
With some of the best sonics you will ever experience, I'd like to introduce you to six recently released Pure DSD256 recordings from Eudora Records, Hunnia Records, and Yarlung Records. All of these albums are originally recorded directly to DSD256 and not to analog tape and then transferred to DSD. If you value the ultimate... Read More »
Fortissimo S Features Massive 50 lb. Platter Comprised of Multiple Materials for Maximum Noise Reduction Nesconset, NY, June 25, 2024 -- EAT (European Audio Team), the company whose high-performance products are designed to bring listeners as close as possible to the meaning and spirit of the original performance, offers the flagship Fortissimo S turntable in North America... Read More »
EF600 Cited For “Increase in Usability” BELLMORE, NY, June 26, 2024 – HIFIMAN, the leader in high fidelity personal audio, was awarded the prestigious 2024 Red Dot Product Design Award for the company’s EF600 balanced desktop DAC/amplifier, designed for audiophile-grade desktop performance with a slim, vertical tower industrial design. The Red Dot statement by the jury reads: “The reduction in formality... Read More »
Rhino Entertainment continues the superb Joni Mitchell Archives Series with their latest installment, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980), which presents newly remastered versions of Joni Mitchell's final four albums for David Geffen's Asylum Records. Including the studio recordings Hejira (1976), the double album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977), and Mingus (1979), along with Joni's double live... Read More »
PEARL & THE OYSTERS GO ON A “SIDE QUEST” WITH NEW SONG OUT TODAY ON STONES THROW Photo credit: Ross Harris. Listen to “Side Quest” HERE Watch the music video Directed by David M. Gutel HERE Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 — Los Angeles-via-Paris pop voyagers Pearl & The Oysters – the duo of Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju)... Read More »
Impex Records is well known for their extraordinary reissues of albums that are perhaps underappreciated, but nonetheless quintessential. Their latest is Duke Ellington's seminal 1958 session, Ellington Indigos, which Impex has just taken to the next level with a new 65th anniversary, 45 rpm two-LP edition. A relatively neglected jewel in Duke Ellington's catalog of... Read More »
Elton John and Bernie Taupin, "Friends" 50th Anniversary Edition. The Original Soundtrack Recording. Paramount 3555744. Pinky Vinyl Edition. Sourced new from eBay. $26 For those who look at the title Friends you should know this is definitely not the soundtrack of the famous and still wildly popular sitcom. This album is the soundtrack for a... Read More »
