January - February 2015
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Audio Discourse
Impressions: The Oppo Digital HA-1 Headphone Amplifier/DSD DAC...
I might as well come out and admit it. I've been a big fan of Oppo Digital and their product lines since I first tried them out, years ago now. I...
Musings on DSD: Using Offline Conversion from DSD to...
"I don't know where I'm gonna live I don't know if I'll find a place I'd have to think about it some And that I do not wish to...
The Vintage McIntosh Experience: A Musical Ride With The MX110Z...
I've really had a lot of fun listening to vintage McIntosh vacuum tube audio electronics in my hi-fi system over the last year. The McIntosh MX110Z...
Case Closed: Roger Skoff Puts an End to the "Voodoo" Wars
Julian Hirsch was co-founder of Hirsch-Houck Labs, which for many years was the leading test organization in the HiFi industry, and provided the...
The Voice of the Heretic – Is Red Book CD Hi-Resolution Audio?
With my forays of the last few years into computer-based audio, I've really come to appreciate the lowly compact disc. Even though the prevailing...
My Challenge to David Pogue, Technology Reporter at Yahoo
Cookie Marenco of Blue Coast Records and Dominique Brulhart of Merging Technologies at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, 2014 (Photograph and processing...
Hardware Reviews
Viero Equilibrio Level 3 Speaker Cables - Old World Magic
In some ways, Mark Pearson and I are birds of a feather. Among other things, we're both extremely picky and demanding about the performance of...
INEX Innovation Generation III Photonic Interconnects and 3D...
The era of photonic interconnect cables has arrived and we should all be singing praises! What do I mean? I've written before about the photonic...
KLaudio CD-CLN-LP 200 Vinyl Record Ultrasonic Cleaner V.4 and...
KLaudio has introduced several significant functional and cosmetic improvements to their highly acclaimed ultrasonic record cleaning machine since my...
Belles 150A Reference V2 Amplifier
Since the early 1980's David Belles has been plying his craft with soldering iron, resistor, and capacitor to bring us some of the finest...
Symposium Acoustics Segue ISO Platform
As an occasional contributor to this site, may I also mention that I "read" every issue of Positive-Feedback.com in more or less the...
INEX Innovation 3D Creator AC Cord
Most power line conditioners are passive, meaning the components that are doing the conditioning are in parallel to the power cord. This is done so...
Interviews
David Robinson and David Elias on DSD... Interviewed by Steve...
Enjoy the Music.TV's interview with David W. Robinson of Positive Feedback magazine and singer/musician/songwriter David Elias. Hosted by...
Music Reviews
Impressions: The First Batch of Yarlung Records Quad DSD...
Quad DSD (DSD256) is arriving! And I am delighted to say that it is doing so with some albums that makes us sit up and take notice of the powerful...
Notes of an Amateur: Buxtehude, CPE Bach, pianist Wu Han
Dieterich Buxtehude. Complete Vocal Works, 10 volumes (17 CD's). Ton Koopman. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus. Challenge Classics. In my...
Notes of an Amateur: Petrenko plays Elgar 1; Ibragimova's...
Elgar, Symphony No. 1. Cockaigne Overture. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko. Onyx. ONYX4145. Why listen to Elgar? Unless...
Joseph Rouleau: Operas Russes
CD: Orchestra of Radio Canada/Jean Deslauriers; *unidentified pianist DVD: Nancy De Long (s), Feodor; Misha Raitzen (t), Shuisky; Yoland Guérard...
The Jayhawks
Springing out of Minneapolis in the early '90's, the Jayhawks' music offered a healthy musical antidote to the rainy weather nihilism...
Impressions: 2L's Magnificent Magnificat (SACD stereo; Double...
Shall I confess something? I've fallen in love. This time with an exceptional chorale and orchestral recording from Morten Lindberg and the good...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
MUSIC ON VINYL - How the black disc conquered the world
BACK IN BLACK The vinyl is back for good. If there are people who haven't noticed this yet, they are clearly the sort that have no interest...
Vermöuth Audio Black Pearl Speaker Cables
Most of Poles realize that there are two countries in Europe who's flags are a combination of horizontal white and red strips. One of them is...
PTP Audio SOLID9 Audiomods SERIES FIVE Turntable + Tonearm
There are certain inventions, technologies and design ideas that should have disappeared long ago, and yet stubbornly cling to existence. They are only...
Mark Levinson №52 40th Anniversary Line/Phono Preamplifier
Each business enterprise has its own so-called "founding myth" (in Western classical scholarship often referred to as etiological myth from...
Acoustic Revive RCA-1.5 TRIPLE C-FM Interconnect and SPC-2.5...
In 1986, Professor Atsumi Ohno of the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, a respected inventor and scientist, after years of research proposed an...
Linear Audio Research IA-120H Integrated Amplifier
I've been trying to remember how long have we known each other with Mr Eugeniusz Czyżewski and I've realized it's been 12 years already....
Show Reports
2015 CES - A Yellow Brick Road Of Integrated Amplifiers
If you have been following my reviews over the last few years, I have taken a considerable interest in integrated amplifiers. This includes those from...
Sidebar: AES 2014 Awards
Best Sound in Show Pro Audio LA took some folks offsite to a studio called The Realm to audition some gear, most notably the new Guzauski-Swist...
AES 2014 Show Report
The AES show has long been two shows in one: a scientific conference in one set of rooms and a trade show in another set of rooms. What is great about...
