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Jamie Howarth of Plangent Processes: Making Recordings Sound Better, Part One

Frank Doris — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:05:51 +0000

This is the latest installment of re-published articles from our good audiobud, Frank Doris, Editor of Copper magazine, the journal of Paul McGowan's company PS Audio. Paul has kindly given Frank Doris permission to re-publish here at Positive Feedback, and some of Frank's valued articles appear here occasionally, courtesy of them both. Enjoy! Plangent Processes offers a... Read More »

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Recent Finds, No. 26 - Bert van der Wolf Recordings

Rushton Paul — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:53:00 +0000

Recording engineer Bert van der Wolf's releases are eagerly awaited in our household. The reason is a combination of three factors: (1) the audio quality he achieves is easily in the top ranks of what is possible today, and he's constantly pushing the envelope to achieve even better sound; (2) I like his choice of... Read More »

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Euphony Audio's Stylus OS 4.0 (RC 24), in Combination with Mozzaik Upsampler, S.M.S.L.'s VMV D2R DAC, and a Peek at Exciting New Upcoming Euphony Hardware

Tom Gibbs — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:14:39 +0000

Over a decade ago, the late John Sunier of Audiophile Audition called me with a hardware review offer for the original AURALiC Aries streamer. I was clueless as to what a streamer was or what it was supposed to do, John was unable to offer any explanation of its function to me, and I only... Read More »

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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 25 - New Recordings at NativeDSD

Rushton Paul — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:39:44 +0000

The labels represented in NativeDSD's catalog continue to deliver outstanding performances in great sounding recordings. NativeDSD is just a stunning resource for those who love immaculate high resolution recordings made by some of the best recording engineers working today (Jared Sacks of Channel Classics, Brendon Heinst of TRPTK, Gonzalo Noqué of Eudora, Jake Purches of... Read More »

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John Lee Hooker's Rare LP Burning Hell Launches Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds' Bluesville Series Reboot

Tom Gibbs — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:39:43 +0000

Craft Recordings is partnering again with Acoustic Sounds for a reboot of the classic Bluesville Series. The LPs will be pressed by Acoustic Sounds' Quality Record Pressing (QRP) on 180 gram vinyl; Craft is already collaborating with QRP on their Contemporary jazz reissue series. And those LPs have been excellent so far, so there's no... Read More »

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THE Show Orange County 2024 : MC Audiotech and Shimmer Audiophile are Pure SoCal Sunshine

John Hughes — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:01:21 +0000

I found Mark Conti of MC Audiotech and Robert Sears of Shimmer Audiophile setting up their gear in a large conference room at T.H.E. Show on a Thursday night in preparation for a long weekend of demos. Though they were working the kinks out of the system, the sound was already gelling, and I... Read More »

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Magnificent But a TAD Expensive? Maybe, Maybe Not as AXPONA Delivers Dream Audio!

Juan C. Ayllon — Tue, 14 May 2024 21:34:56 +0000

SCHAUMBURG, IL—Twenty-six years ago, aspiring studio tech and entrepreneur, David Malekpour, launched his Pro Audio Design, Inc. (initially under the banner, Anything Audio, he re-named it in 1993), with Augspurger Monitors that employed Technical Audio Devices (TAD) drivers and components simply because "they were the best." TAD have been tops for years, he says, and... Read More »

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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 18 - More Bert van der Wolf Recordings

Rushton Paul — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:23:35 +0000

If you've followed along with some of my other articles, you may have picked up on how much I admire the recordings made by Bert van der Wolf of Northstar Recording Services (see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE). Bert ranks very highly among a small group of highly talented independent recording and mastering engineers whom... Read More »

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Notes from Recent Finds, No. 17 - Releases from NativeDSD

Rushton Paul — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:05:52 +0000

I'm excited about this most recent group of Recent Finds, all released over this past year at NativeDSD. Included are a great new album from Carmen Gomes and Sound Liaison, a new Rembrandt Frerichs album on Just Listen Records, Anna Fedorova and Dana Zemtsov on Channel Classics, several albums from the Navis Classics label which... Read More »

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An Evaluation of Vinyl Re-issues and the Companies Doing Them from 1995

Editors at Positive Feedback — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 21:55:28 +0000

New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print but you are also going to see some articles from our early days of going online. Original text and commentary by Brian Hartsell, now sadly departed…. During the last two years the growing resurgence of new and reissue vinyl releases has become more than just a... Read More »

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The 20th Annual Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards for 2023

Editors at Positive Feedback — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:48:54 +0000

Beginning at the end of 2003, PF established its first annual awards for fine audio. The Brutus Award was established for the best that David Robinson and Dave and Carol Clark had heard in their own listening rooms during that year. You can think of it as our equivalent of an "Editors' Choice" award. The Gizmo Award,... Read More »

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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 11 - Alpha Classics!

Rushton Paul — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:46:36 +0000

This edition of Recent Finds will be a bit different because I'm including some 44.1 kHz reviewer sample files from Alpha Classics that I've been enjoying. I've been accused of listening only to DXD and DSD256, but I plead "Not true!" Or, at least not entirely true. Sometimes one just has to go where the... Read More »

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The Magic of Bert van der Wolf

Rushton Paul — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:16:48 +0000

"Life is a magical mystery; Bert has no part in any of that…" - Bert van der Wolf Producer, recording and mastering engineer Bert van der Wolf, owner of Northstar Recording Services, has been making among the best engineered classical recordings one will find. I've written before about his recordings (see list of articles here) and... Read More »

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Kuijken and La Petite Bande - Remastered in Original DXD Resolution!

Rushton Paul — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:30:54 +0000

With La Petite Bande's 50th anniversary in 2022, Challenge Records celebrated with the release of a nine CD box set, which you may have seen. All nice, but that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about something even more wonderful: the release of the original DXD recording resolution files! (HERE) From... Read More »

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Naiu Laboratory Ella Mark 3 Class ND Stereo Amplifier

Tom Gibbs — Wed, 10 May 2023 16:13:53 +0000

Naiu Laboratory is a German-based manufacturer that's been in existence since the late 1990s. It's the brainchild of Mircea Naiu, who also designed the proprietary circuit employed by their only current model, the Ella Mark 3 stereo amplifier. Naiu refers to this technology as Class ND, which is an acronym for "Naiu Digital." Naiu's... Read More »

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AXPONA 2023 Bigger and Better; Scribbles from My Spiral Jotter

Juan C. Ayllon — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:32:21 +0000

A small crowd murmurs and looks on as two sturdy men in navy company polos and slacks gingerly lift, rock, and place a pair of nineteen thousand dollar futuristic gleaming pearl white speakers into optimal audio positioning while their CEO, Paul McGowan, is off to the side chatting with a prospective buyer. Although the weather... Read More »

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AXPONA 2023 - Several Highlights and a Few Observations

Robert S. Youman — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:59:16 +0000

What a wonderful weekend at AXPONA 2023! The weather was quite lovely for this time of the year in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs—sunny and in the 70s and 80s. There was a certain sense of excitement and energy in the air, even beyond last year's 2022 event as 2021 was cancelled to due to... Read More »

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2L and Morten Lindberg - Recordings with Exceptional Clarity and Air

Rushton Paul — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:54:25 +0000

Recording label 2L and its well-respected producer and recording engineer Morten Lindberg are known for their surround-sound recordings, with multiple GRAMMY Awards and Nominations. If you have multichannel playback capability, and if music in the round is your thing, 2L's recordings are some of the best recordings in that style. I listen only to stereo... Read More »

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Lawo Classics - A Label Well Worth Exploring - Plus Organ Music!

Rushton Paul — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:41:33 +0000

The Norwegian classical music label, Lawo Classics, makes recordings I've come to quite enjoy. They find outstanding musicians and make recordings of exquisite sound quality. As I've been exploring their catalog (over 240 titles since 2008), I'm finding a deep treasure of wonderful performances in excellent DXD recorded sound quality. I'm always delighted to see... Read More »

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Notes on Recent Finds, No. 5 (More Jazz from HDTT)

Rushton Paul — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:52:22 +0000

Bob Witrak continues his quest for access to some great sounding tapes. Here are a few more jazz finds that knock my socks off. In addition to some great stereo releases, I'm including several mono releases from HDTT's Archival Series that are simply superb. We're all well past that notion from a few decades ago... Read More »

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Ruminations - What We Hear in HDTT Versus Modern Recordings

Rushton Paul — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:06:08 +0000

Beware! Wildly broad generalizations coming below... Interesting conversations get started over morning cappuccinos in our household. Today, the discussion was about files from the HDTT (High Definition Tape Transfer) catalog versus modern recordings from the NativeDSD catalog. Ann opined that, overall, she found the NativeDSD files in our library were the files to which she... Read More »

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Hannes Minnaar Performing Shostakovich, Beethoven and More

Rushton Paul — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:52:52 +0000

I've written before about the recordings of pianist Hannes Minnaar (see HERE and HERE). I'm writing now to share with you a new solo piano recording of the Shostakovich 24 Preludes (a marvel), an earlier recording of piano works inspired by Bach, and a scrumptious complete cycle of the Beethoven Piano Concertos with Jan Willem... Read More »

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Pianist Hannes Minnaar - Artistry to Savor

Rushton Paul — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:03:59 +0000

Hannes Minnaar (b.1984) is a pianist to keep one's ears on. He is is consistently described by critics as able to convey musical essence in all its purity, and I've become convinced this is true. I first came to know him through his contributions with the Van Baerle Trio and I've very much enjoyed his... Read More »

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Downsizing Journey Update: Four Years with the Playback Designs MPD-8

Rushton Paul — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:19:42 +0000

We started our downsizing journey four years ago. I've written about that journey in four parts beginning HERE. I thought that after four years of experience with our all-digital, headphones-only listening system, an update might be worth sharing. As we headed into the realm of digital-files-only listening, my heels were dug firmly into the dirt trying... Read More »

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More Superb RCA Living Stereo Albums from HDTT

Rushton Paul — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:43:13 +0000

Thus far in 2022, HDTT has given us three new and outstanding transfers of well known, and well loved, performances from the RCA Living Stereo catalog. To these, I've added several more of their excellent DXD/DSD256 Living Stereo reissues, plus a final reissue that RCA never released as a Living Stereo, but should have. They... Read More »

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