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November - December 2024

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Audio Discourse

Bah! Humbug!

12-13-2024 | By Roger Skoff

Roger Skoff: a moment. Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society Gala. Buena Park, CA, 2024 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson)...


2024 Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards [UPDATED]

12-05-2024 | By Editors at Positive Feedback

Beginning at the end of 2003, Positive Feedback established its first annual awards for fine audio. The Brutus Award was established for the best that...


Audiophile Economics - Part 2

11-20-2024 | By Roger Skoff

Roger Skoff writes about why things cost what they do In the first part of this article, I wrote about how pricing works, using not only our own...


My Experience with the GTT Audio Reference Listening System

10-16-2024 | By Editors at Positive Feedback

Pastor Dave Robinson and Bill Parish with the Vivid Audio Moya M1 Loudspeaker A little about myself: This is a very brief review of the experience of...


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Hardware Reviews

iFi Audio ZEN Phono 3 - Let's Make Some Friends

12-13-2024 | By Al Chieng

I recently met a good friend for dinner and we got to talk about all things audio. It was there that he pondered an earth-shaking scenario to me. He...


Manley Laboratories Oasis Phono Stage - Playing with the Big

12-02-2024 | By Robert H. Levi

A portrait of EveAnna Manley of Manley Laboratories, Denver, CO, 2019 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Manley Labs is a...


The Synergistic Research Pink Fuse, Low Hanging Fruit That Just...

12-02-2024 | By Robert S. Youman

Backstory By accident, I recently blew a fuse in a Synergistic Research Galileo SX Ground Block. I won’t get into all the details, but let’s just...


Lorenzo Audio Labs LM1 Loudspeakers

11-08-2024 | By Key Kim

It was at the 2023 Munich High End Show that I discovered some truly remarkable loudspeakers, the Lorenzo Audio Labs LM1 from Spain. They were music to...


Triode Wire Labs American II Series Power Cord

11-04-2024 | By Malcolm J. Gomes

By far, the most common blind spot that most audiophiles I have met and chatted with seem to have, is the lack of awareness of the importance of the...


Audiomods 12" Series Six Tonearm

11-01-2024 | By John Hoffman

In 2020 Jeff Spalls introduced the Audiomods Series Six tonearm, providing many analog hobbyists with an opportunity to experience excellent yet...


Fyne Audio F1-8S Loudspeaker

11-01-2024 | By John Acton

Over the course of my audiophile journey, I've owned, reviewed, or auditioned many different types of loudspeakers, from electrostatic to planar, from...


Goldring 1012GX Cartridge

10-26-2024 | By Ed Kobesky

"They're boxy, but they're good." That was the slogan coined for Volvo cars by Dudley Moore's unhinged ad exec in the mediocre 1990 movie farce, Crazy...


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Music - SuperSonic Recordings

Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 42

12-03-2024 | By Claude Lemaire

This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 246. ABC, "The Look of Love (USA remix-dub version)"/ "The Look of Love (part 3...


Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 41

09-26-2024 | By Claude Lemaire

This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 241. Shelly Manne & His Men – At the Blackhawk Vol.1. Contemporary Records –...


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Music Reviews

New Release and Reissue LPs from Barenaked Ladies, OPA, Bush,...

12-11-2024 | By Tom Gibbs

Craft Recordings continues to drop great late-year releases, and I have four more here you'll definitely want to check out! These albums criss-cross...


Mercy, Love Can Make You Happy

12-07-2024 | By Robert Pincus

The history behind the band Mercy, from Tampa, Florida, is one of the more complicated rock and roll stories that I've tried to understand. On its...


Harry Potter, Original Motion Picture Soundtracks I-VII in...

12-05-2024 | By Tom Gibbs

Rhino Entertainment has just released four sprawling, color-coordinated, exclusive 16-LP box sets for Harry Potter: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks...


Rhino's Slate of Black Friday Record Store Day LPs Features...

11-28-2024 | By Tom Gibbs

Rhino Entertainment has another eclectic and impressive slate of limited-edition LPs available for Record Store Day Black Friday coming on November...


A Diverse Offering of LPs from Craft Recordings Just in Time for...

11-26-2024 | By Tom Gibbs

Craft Recordings has announced a striking offering of limited-edition LPs for the upcoming Black Friday celebration of Record Store Day 2024 on...


The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen: The Definitive Collection

11-09-2024 | By Robert Pincus

When I wrote about The Blue Things I expressed my general distaste for cult bands and cult singers. And the reason is because mediocre cult bands cast...


All Hail To The Chairman of the Board - The New IMPEX 1STEP...

11-07-2024 | By Robert S. Youman

First, Some Personal Backstory And Perspective Please be patient with me as I step you through some personal backstory. When IMPEX released the 33 RPM...


Schumann, via AI? (Not.)

11-01-2024 | By Stephen Francis Vasta

Schumann Symphony 4 (orig. vers.); Manfred Overture. Yun: Cello Concerto. Jaemin Han, cello; Korean National Symphony Orchestra/David Reiland. Decca...


Impex Records' Newest Limited Edition 1STEP 45 rpm LP Release:...

10-31-2024 | By Tom Gibbs

Four years ago, Impex Records contracted a pair of Grammy award-winning engineers and tasked them with reviving the original analog tapes for Frank...


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New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print

ZYX R100H Cartridge

11-01-2024 | By Editors at Positive Feedback

This article by Bob Levi originally ran in Positive Feedback ISSUE 15 September/October 2004, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles...


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Our Friends at HIFI Statement

PrimaLuna EVO 100 Tube Phono Preamplifier

11-06-2023 | By Carsten Bussler

Der neue EVO 100 Tube Phono Preamplifier von PrimaLuna gehört zur Premium-Baureihe „Evolution“ des Herstellers und wartet mit einer Reihe.... . . Read More »


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Our Friends at High Fidelity

Krakow Society Meeting 148 - Siltech Master Crown

12-11-2024 | By Wojciech Pacuła

The Dutch company Siltech is one of the leading manufacturers of audio cables. For years, with its Triple Crown series, along with a handful of other...


Acoustic Revive USB-1.0PL Triple-C and RUT-1K USB Cable Filter

12-03-2024 | By Wojciech Pacuła

Acoustic Revive is a Japanese company founded in 1997 and led by Mr. Ken Ishiguro. It specializes in interconnect cables, anti-vibration products, but...


Krakow Sonic Society 145 - Polish Recordings on SACD

11-21-2024 | By Wojciech Pacuła

On September 29th Warner Music Poland released five Czeslaw Niemen albums on SACD hybrid discs. This was the first part of a Series of "Polskie...


Design in Audio. Or Once More About the Language

10-15-2024 | By Wojciech Pacuła

Design is both the idea, the pattern, the design just poured by it onto paper or on a computer screen, and the materialized effect of designer's work....


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Show Reports

The 2024 AES Show

11-25-2024 | By Frank Doris

This show report by Frank Doris, a Senior Editor for Positive Feedback, and Editor of PS Audio's Copper Magazine, is republished from Copper. The 2024...


Toronto Audio Fest 2024

11-19-2024 | By Douglas Seth Brown

Toronto Audio Fest Show Report, Friday, 18 October - Sunday 20 October 2024 Encouraging an audiophile with a cabling and equipment addiction to attend...


Lone Star Audio Fest 2024

09-30-2024 | By Norman Tracy

Our tribe of dedicated audiophiles and music lovers met up in Dallas Texas the weekend of June 7-9 for the seventeenth Lone Star Audio Fest. LSAF is...


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