July - August 2020
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Audio Discourse
Live Streaming in the Time of Covid-19 - Part 2
Fred Hersch's hands frozen in transmission What are the Options? On a late summer day in August, I reflect on how little has changed since last I...
Cooking Cables with PTFE - a Tour of Straight Wire, Inc. and an...
Steven Hill, president of Straight Wire, Inc. (photo courtesy of Spencer Burke) "Many of our customers are engineers," says Steven Hill, 63, owner of...
JCAT Signature USB Cable
Alright, so the JCAT Signature USB cable is one of the better USB cables I have heard, and fits right into my group of favorites in terms of being...
Bricasti Design MDx Board Update - Keeping Digital Customers...
Bricasti Design is still keeping their promise of offering future-ready solutions to their existing customers. From my experience, the investment in...
Ear Wax: Roger Skoff Writes about the Weird, the Wonderful, and...
Many a long year ago, there was (really; truly; I kid you not!) an audiophile product called EarWax™. Apparently following the same logic that...
Impressions: The Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable, Durand Tosca...
At RMAF, evening cigars, Denver, CO, 2019 (photograph by Scott Hull; image processing by David W. Robinson) When you do a lot of audio reviewing and...
Hardware Reviews
Mye Sound Mye Stands for Magnepans
As a new owner of Magnepan 3.7i I've discovered quite a few things about these much loved and storied planar magnetic speakers. Hearing them at shows...
Whats in a Name? The McIntosh Labs C2700 Preamplifier
How does one define the word-brand? It's a question I've been working on answering while helping to create a new sustainable women's clothing line with...
AudioQuest Dragon Power Cords
I am awaiting delivery in today's post of five AudioQuest Dragon power cords with mixed emotions. The unease is not about them; it is because I'm leery...
AGD Andante Preamplifier and Vivace Monoblocks
AGD's Andante and Vivace will transport you to the musical venue. Review By Rick Becker With this article, Positive Feedback continues its...
The Akitika GT-102 Power Amplifier
The last decade summers at my place have been hotter than ever before. At 6300 feet, what used to be two weeks of high temps has turned into 10 weeks...
The iFi PowerStation AC Line Conditioner
Go back some 50 years, and the American audio scene involved an assortment of acronyms from around New England: off the top of my head, AR, ADS, APT,...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 21
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations "I can't breathe" Eric Garner, George Floyd "We can't breathe" People all over the...
Music Reviews
David Elias - The Art of Listening
Comparing Native DSD64 and DSD256 Releases by Tom Jung of DMP I was graciously asked by Brian Moura at NativeDSD.com to listen to and critique some...
Between the Buried and Me: The Silent Circus Remix/Remaster
2020 marks the 20th anniversary of progressive / hardcore / metalcore / technical deathcore band Between the Buried and Me, and Craft Recordings...
Latin Jazz Listening Party
If you have the good fortune to have a smart TV connected to your stereo and are a fan of the genre, then I encourage you to participate in this Latin...
Notes of an Amateur: Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir; Christian...
…all descriptions of music are quite worthless & rather unpleasant; they are apt to be hysterical & to say things the people will be ashamed...
Notes of an Amateur: Bach Cello Suites by Weilerstein; Haydn by...
…all descriptions of music are quite worthless & rather unpleasant; they are apt to be hysterical & to say things the people will be ashamed...
Ekaterina Siurina: French and Italian Arias
Amour Éternel, Ekaterina Siurina, soprano; Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra/ Constantine Orbelian. Delos DE 3583. TT: 76.11 CARPENTIER: Louise:...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Monarchy Audio SM-70 Pro Amplifiers
This article, as reviewed by Francisco Duran, Victor Chavira, Carol Clark, and Dave Clark originally ran in Issue 2, August/September 2002, so while we...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Technology - AAD, ADD, DDD: the SPARS Code in the 21st century
"The SPARS code is a three-position alphabetic classification system developed in the early 1980s by the Society of Professional Audio Recording...
Show Reports
Audio Show Flashback: CES 2010
Because the Coronavirus has halted audio shows for the foreseeable future, we thought it might be fun to go back and revisit some shows from days gone...
