January - February 2017
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Audio Discourse
Abraham Lincoln, a True Opera Lover (Really!)
Our audio compadre John Marks herein rightly brings to our attention Abraham Lincoln's deep affection for opera and the stage. He was assassinated,...
The Wild Wacky World of Bruce Walker - Cartoons with an Edge!
"Man, it was easy! Five acres of solar panels, and I killed it!!"
Grace Design m920 and the Steinway and Sons Office Systems -...
John Marks' final installment about his recommended Steinway and Sons office system is below. He focuses on the Grace Design m920 DAC as the digital...
Connections, Connections: Steinway and Sons Office Systems and...
In part three of this series, John Marks introduces cables to his small office audio system recommendations. While John has his own Esperanto Audio...
A Fantastic Little Stereo System - Part 2
Parasound's Zamp v.3 stereo amplifier One of my favorite lines from the original Star Trek TV series (and please, nobody forget that Alexander...
Impressions: The Gryphon Audio Kalliope 8x DSD DAC
The Gryphon Audio Kalliope DSD DAC upon arrival here… (Photograph and image processing by Robinson) The world of DSD DACs has certainly exploded over...
Hardware Reviews
Duevel Venus Loudspeakers
The Venus is the third Duevel speaker I have reviewed and sits directly in the middle of their lineup. Since I have heard at one time or another all of...
Music Interface Technologies ACC169 Speaker Interface and Oracle...
Music Interface Technologies (MIT) products have had a place in my system on and off over the last twenty years. From the MI-850 Tri-wire designed for...
Wilson Audio Alexx Loudspeakers
Wilson Audio Alexx Loudspeakers Every once in awhile (though frankly, more frequently than I care for), I chuckle, nay, swing my arms and hands in...
Acoustical Systems The Palladian Cartridge
Acoustical Systems' tonearm Aquilar, as well as the top-of-the-range model Axiom, are characterized by the UNI-DIN geometry newly developed by Dietrich...
CH Precision P1 Phono Stage
Empiricism vs. Theory What was my biggest discovery last year? Bass traps. I installed them in the left and right front corners behind the speakers, as...
The First Watt F7 Power Amplifier - Simply Sublime
When I first requested an opportunity to write about the next new First Watt amplifier, I was candid with Nelson Pass that it was possible my Von...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 1
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations. Here is the first 10 of his Top 500 SuperSonic List... "This is a journey into...
Music Reviews
Arthur Lipner's Two Hands, One Heart on CD
Back in the '80s, when I was in college, I tried very hard to get into jazz. Many of my music-loving friends had already discovered it, and they...
Vamos on the Music: The National, 'Trouble Will Find Me'
The National's sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, continues the Brooklyn-based band's streak of melancholy mellow, indie rock. It's reminiscent of the...
A Second Grieg Piano Concerto?
GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (rev. Grieg and Grainger)*; Piano Concerto in B minor (fragments); EVJU: Piano Concerto in B minor (on...
Notes of an Amateur: Prokofiev, Wu Han, and Kat Edmonson
Serge Prokofiev, Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1. Nos 2, 6, and 8. Alexander Melnikov, Harmonia Mundi HMC 902202. For those of us who find early twentieth...
Preoccupations, 'Preoccupations'
Preoccupations, Preoccupations JAGJAGUWAR, Digital, vinyl, and CD In hindsight, naming a band Viet Cong probably wasn't the best idea, but they did...
Notes of an Amateur: A Cornucopia of Modern Music
Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov, and Kancheli. Works for Piano and Orchestra. Elisaveta Blumina, piano. Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling. Grand...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
McIntosh MC352 Amplifier
This article, by Victor Chavira, Larry Cox, and Dave Clark, originally ran when audioMUSINGS was in print - Issue 15, 2001 McIntosh Audio Labs is a...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Ayon Audio CD-35 Super Audio CD Player Review + Krakow Sonic...
The Super Audio CD Player, Ayon Audio CD-35 turned out to be significantly different from typical products of this type, both in terms of technical...
Hijiri 聖 SMT Takumi Maestro AC Cable
It was clear from the very beginning that the Harmonix X-DC Studio Master Million Maestro power cable was a highly limited product, so it was intended...
The Nomos Lenco L 75 Modification
Lenco L 75 or Thorens TD 150 / II - that was the question that I asked myself in 1969 when I had to buy a new turntable. The mechanism of the my...
Show Reports
New York Audio Show 2016
If you find yourself in the Big Apple, you are likely to encounter street musicians. Of course, their quality varies: some are quite good, others not...
