January - February 2023
Audio Discourse
Confessions of a Setup Man, Part 15: Avoiding Burnout
Frank Doris is a good audio friend, and the Editor of PS Audio's Copper magazine. From time to time he shares articles from Copper with Positive...
Mixing in Pure DSD - No PCM Allowed
For years I've been told that it is not possible to mix in DSD—that this is one of the major limitations of recording in DSD. Well, I'm now learning...
Impressions: More of My 2022 Brutus Awards, Part the Second
Time for some real fun! I, like many others who work in high-end audio publishing, spend a lot of time at my desktop. Just because I'm working, though,...
It's a Mystery
Roger Skoff writes about an all-too-common Audiophile problem From its very beginning, our hobby has been one of tinkering and do-it-yourself-ism. Much...
Hand Book of a Hidden Man, Part 7: I Go To School
What Happened Before Before the emotional drama I'm about to relate took place, something happened to set the stage. It was a typical sunny day in San...
Confessions of a Setup Man Part 12: Failed Experiments
Re-published from Copper magazine, Issue 133, and used by permission of PS Audio. Many audiophiles are tinkerers. We're constantly striving to squeeze...
Bass is Always a Problem
Norman Varney of AV RoomService Ltd. has joined Positive Feedback as a Senior Technical Editor as of Issue 113. His expertise in his field of audio...
On the Road Again: Featuring Greg Weaver's Home Audio System
With this article, Positive Feedback continues its content-sharing relationship with Enjoy the Music where Maurice Jefferies visits the home of Greg...
Ruminations - What We Hear in HDTT Versus Modern Recordings
Beware! Wildly broad generalizations coming below... Interesting conversations get started over morning cappuccinos in our household. Today, the...
Impressions: More of My 2022 Brutus Awards, Part the First
The Absence of the Presence. Happy Valley, OR, 2022. Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson. About my Brutus Awards… For years I have...
Remastering - Esoteric Sound Works
Remastering is a technique applied to improve sound quality. It can be done in digital or analog domain. There are few audio manufacturers who also...
It's the Little Stuff: Roger Skoff Writes About the Importance...
Enid Lumley, the long-ago first female reviewer for The Absolute Sound, was possibly a little over the top, but at least a major portion of her...
Meet Robert Pincus - Mr. Record
Robert Pincus joins PF as a writer of music and other topics of interest. Telling a story about myself is always a challenge, so I will start by...
Dave and Carol Clark's Brutus Awards for 2022
Been an interesting year or three. Neither of us have done much writing simply because not much in audio interested either of us. The pandemic, health...
An Audio Journey
So, this is going to be a trip of sorts… one where we take you from our early audio system beginnings to where we are today. Yeah, just like most...
Hardware Reviews
Unique Innovation Technology Co. (UIT) Perfect Music Booster...
Image courtesy of UIT Unique Innovation Technology Co. (UITaudio.com) is a California company under the guidance of Mitch Ko, an extremely talented...
Record Doctor VI
If any audio product should be standard issue, the lowly record cleaner certainly qualifies for that status. If you play records, they need cleaning....
The AGD Productions Gran Vivace Monoblock Amplifier
Classy Operation A class-D amplifier, or switching amplifier, all too often mistakenly referred to as a "digital" amplifier, differs from the much more...
Sonus faber Sonetto III Loudspeakers
It has been a little over one year since the write-up about the Sonus faber Lumina V (HERE). A keen-eared reader made a comment regarding the Lumina V:...
Secrets of the Armónico Ethernet Cable from Fono Acustica
The last of the Fono Acustica cables had been sent back about six months ago. Already, their sonic profile was receding. It's difficult to retrieve...
Musician Audio Knight 1 Loudspeakers
An electric bass sets the rhythm and is instantly recognizable as the snap of a snare drum and the splash of a single cymbal resonates in the...
Wolf von Langa WVL 12639 SON Loudspeaker System
The SON also Rises The name Wolf von Langa (WVL) is known in Germany as a manufacturer of high-end audio speakers. Unless you are up on the European...
Audio-Technica AT-ART20 Moving Coil Cartridge
The AT-ART20 lists for $2900 and resides as the second most expensive cartridge in the ART series cartridge line. The AT-ART20 is only topped by the...
Focus Fidelity Filter Designer Room Correction Software
Room correction is catching on in the two channel world. Some will read this first sentence and think that I have lost my mind, some will say "of...
World Premier - Zesto Audio Eros 500 Select Class A Monoblocks
A Breakthrough Amplifier Design A pair of the Zesto Audio Eros 500 Select Monoblock Amps (image courtesy of Zesto Audio) The more I immerse myself in...
Wide Open Spaces - Canor Audio DAC 2.10
It used to be that when traveling out of state, I would tell people I was from Chicago. But in reality, it couldn't be further from the truth. I live...
Something New from audiodharma Cable Cooker: the Ground Breaker
I'll share a snippet from an email exchange with Alan Kafton, proprietor of audiodharma, the company that makes the Cable Cooker. The subject is the...
Vermouth Audio Studio Monitor Loudspeakers
With this article, Positive Feedback continues its content-sharing relationship with Enjoy the Music where Tom Lyle shares his thoughts on the...
The Boulder 866 Integrated Amplifier - A True Standard Of...
The journey continues. In pursuit of the finest in high end audio integrated amplifiers, last month I auditioned the Aavik I-580 from the Audio Group...
Interviews
The Editors Series No. 35 - Andrija Curkovic of Hi-Fi Media
The Editors is a series of interviews with audio magazine editors from all over the world—both printed and online magazines, and portals. It started...
Music Reviews
A Brilliant Recording by Katelyn Bouska on Yarlung Records in...
This is a brilliant new release by pianist Katelyn Bouska, recorded and mastered in Pure DSD256 by Bob Attiyeh of Yarlung Records. But what makes this...
Mingus' Ah Um - A Terrific New Pure DSD256 Reissue from HDTT
When HDTT issues a Redux edition of an album I’ve liked, I always pay attention. I’ve yet to be disappointed with the improvements Bob Witrak has...
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 5 (More Jazz from HDTT)
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...
Big Country Hits
I own a lot of albums, and my use of the word "albums" means LPs and CDs. Most of them bring me tons of pleasure, but I also keep a few albums for...
More from Hunnia Records - Carmina Burana, Mozart,...
I wrote about my enthusiasm for what Hunnia Records has been doing in this earlier article covering a dozen or so of their releases over the past few...
Cuarteto Quiroga - Beautiful Musicianship and Intriguing...
Over the past four years, I've found myself regularly returning to recordings by the Spanish string quartet, Cuarteto Quiroga. Their performances are...
Patricia Barber's Clique! on 33.3RPM, HQ180 Vinyl from Impex...
Patricia Barber, Clique!. HQ180 33.3 LP: $39.99 MSRP. Patricia Barber patriciabarber.com. Impex Records impexrecords.com Patricia Barber's Clique! was...
Billy Mure's Hawaiian Percussion
I love guitarists, and I own a lot of LPs by guitarists. Although I file the jazz guitarists, like Barney Kessell, Johnny Smith, and Wes Montgomery,...
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 4 (Classical from HDTT)
High Definition Tape Transfer has been on quite a roll in 2022 with a strong schedule of new releases. Their jazz releases in 2022 have been phenomenal...
Hannes Minnaar Performing Shostakovich, Beethoven and More
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 Protean Quartet - Haydn and Beethoven in Pure DSD256 from...
In this superb release from Eudora Records, the Protean Quartet deliver stylish performances of the last of the Haydn's Russian Quartets, the first of...
Berlioz from Cincinnati
Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique. Roméo et Juliette: Scène d'amour. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi. Telarc CD-80578. TT:...
The Best Of Gabor Szabo
When I was fifteen I had yet to learn that greatest hits and best of records also meant The Worst Sounding Records. Back then my ears weren't very...
Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 with Munch/BSO now in DSD256 from
There are times when something so special comes along that one needs to shout "Stop the presses. Hold page one." This is one of those occasions. HDTT...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
David Berning - The Zero-Hysteresis ZH270 Amplifier
This article by Gary Beard originally ran in Issue 5, February/March 2003, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
Audio Note AN-K/SPx SE Speaker and AN-K Stands
Das fast unüberschaubar große Angebot des Vollsortimenters Audio Note hält eine Fülle an Geräten aller Preisklassen bereit. Pekuniär greifen wir.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Sikora KV9 Max Zirconium Series 9" Tonearm
One of the few Polish audio brands that conquered global markets, highly acclaimed among both users and reviewers around the world, J. Sikora, after...
Women's Listening
Part 1: About the Brain From the Editor In her first column for High Fidelity, Malwina Prus-Zielinska talks about how our brain works and what sounds...
Show Reports
Florida Audio Expo 2023 - Part 2
Classic Audio Loudspeakers with Atma-Sphere in the Cypress ballroom John Wolff's Classic Audio Loudspeakers has been exhibiting in the cavernous...
Florida Audio Expo 2023 - Part 1
2023 marked my third consecutive trip to the Florida Audio Expo (or FLAX as it seems to have been shortened to), and the experience was hands down the...
TAD Labs at the Florida Audio Expo, Featuring Jim Anderson and...
The TAD Reference One Experience lets US audiophiles hear TAD's lineup together for the first time. TAD Labs (TAD stands for Technical Audio Devices)...
Capital Audiofest 2022 - It is Alive!
Audiofest! Things are opening and people are going out to events finally, and one of those events is the Capital Audiofest. If you're not familiar with...
