July - August 2024
Audio Discourse
RTR Tape Start to EQ (updated July 17, 2024)
Harold Tichenor is a Real-to-Reel (RTR) tape archivist with over 40 years of experience as a professional. His prior article for Positive Feedback was...
The Acoustic Revive Chronicles, Chapter 15: RTS-30 Turntable...
Greetings friends, and welcome to Chapter 15 of the Acoustic Revive Chronicles! You can see a list of the previous chapters of the Acoustic Revive...
Impressions: My AXPONA 2024 Audio Oasis! Awards, Part This
Ye Olde Editor delivering the goods, Corvallis, Oregon, 1972. (Photograph by John Hull.) Yes, I've always been this way. Munich has come and gone...so...
The Strangest Hobby
Roger Skoff writes about audiophilia No matter how busy we are with home, family, making or spending money, or any of our other more mundane concerns,...
A Visit to the Audio Café in Beverly Hills to Hear the Clarisys...
Ron Resnick shows off his pride and joy, The Clarisys Studio Plus Speakers. As I was snaking my car up the ribbon of road leading high up in the...
Hardware Reviews
The Audience Hidden Treasure Ethernet and frontRow USB Cables
One approaches writing cable reviews with a bit of trepidation, especially about digital cables, and doubly so for those circling around the kilobuck...
The Bag End ISUB2-18 Powered Sub Rocks the Low End with...
The Bag End ISUB2-18 18" Infra Self-Powered Subwoofer System sits in repose in my listening and A/V room Have you ever wondered what it would be like...
Nagaoka MP-200 Cartridge
I don't really know how to pronounce Nag-a-ok-a. Or is it Nag-a-woka? I wish I could find a video on YouTube or something from the actual company where...
Follow-up: Main Stream from Vera-Fi Audio, Now in the Digital...
When my review for Vera-Fi Audio's Main Stream™ went live a few weeks ago, Vera-Fi mainman Mark Schifter was only able to supply me with a single...
Waters on the Hardware: Alberto Guerra Designs (AGD) Solo...
Dean Waters with cigar at the Pacific Audio Fest 2023: a portrait. (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) I recently submitted an...
Notes on the KECES Audio S300+ Power Amplifier and S4 Stereo...
A few months ago, I was pleased to write about the KECES Audio Ebravo Streamer Transport. In that review, I noted that the Ebravo, "Elevated the sound...
Bryston BP-19 Preamplifier
For almost two decades now, my reference preamplifier was the Bryston BP-26 powered by the Bryston MPS-2 DC regulated power supply. I was perfectly...
Main Stream Master Class Dynamic Parallel AC Line Conditioner...
Early this year, Vera-Fi Audio main-man Mark Schifter messaged me to gauge my interest in a new product line he was then representing from Thai...
The Fuse Box, an Ice Box, and the Mixed Metal Arts - Further...
Back in February's Issue 132 (HERE) I wrote about the remarkable improvement in my system from replacing a couple pricey audiophile fuses with first...
ampsandsound Kenzie Integrated Amplifier
It's been a little over eight years since I last reviewed an amplifier by Southern California's ampsandsound (HERE). In the intervening years, Justin...
The Legacy Continues – The Valve Amplification Company...
Over the last two years, I have been on a determined mission to find a standalone phono stage for my system. I have been experimenting with both solid...
Bella Sound Hana Power Conditioner
Fifteen or more years ago I purchased a John Curl/Jack Bybee Signature Pro power conditioner, and still use it to this day. The Signature Pro used two...
Audience frontRow Interconnects and Speaker Cables
Of all the elements that make up a high-end audio system, few are embroiled in the kind of controversy that surrounds cables. By and large, audiophiles...
Interviews
Journeys in Audio Subjectivism - Part Six, John DeVore
This interview originally ran in 2916, but deserves another read. Note: Robert Schryer left PF to write for Stereophile. DeVore Fidelity: Why Getting...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 40
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 236. Charlie Mingus, Blues & Roots. Atlantic – SD 1305 (1960), 33 1/3 rpm,...
Music Reviews
Anna Fedorova, Among the Greatest Pianists Performing Today
Anna Fedorova performing selections from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, from YouTube video linked below. Anna Fedorova is among the greatest...
Rhino Entertainment's Deluxe Edition of Ween's Irreverent...
Rhino Entertainment is celebrating the 30th anniversary of cheeky and eclectic alternative icons Ween and their classic fourth studio album, Chocolate...
Skip James Today! on Bluesville Records from Craft Recordings in...
Craft Recordings' and Acoustic Sounds continue their partnership with the second title in the Bluesville Series reboot, this time featuring Mississippi...
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 24 - HDTT Keeps Rolling Out Great...
If you listen to digital, love classic jazz and the golden age of stereo classical recordings, then surely you have been listening to the outstanding...
Syndicate of Sound
Everybody says it and I'm confirming it. Moving sucks! And as an audiophile with two turntables, two speakers that weigh 130 pounds each, an eighty...
ZZ Top's First Five Albums on Rhino High Fidelity Premium Vinyl
Rhino just pulled out all the stops with a surprise new release: the Rhino High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series inaugural box set, ZZ Top's From The Top:...
More Rare and Classic Top Shelf Reissue LPs from Jazz Dispensary...
Jazz Dispensary is one of the specialty imprints of Craft Recordings that's dedicated to mining the riches of Concord Music's vast catalog of labels....
Rhino's High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series Continues with...
Rhino continues their High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series with a pair of classic new reissues of albums that were both released within the same year,...
Craft Recordings' OJC Reboot Continues With An Underappreciated...
Craft Recordings' continues to crank out new releases in the second group of reissue titles for 2024 in their Original Jazz Classics (OJC) franchise...
Sounds of the Summer: Cool and Collectible Limited Edition...
Rhino Entertainment has just launched their Sounds of the Summer LP series, which features a slate of 24 limited edition LP releases, with most of them...
Just Turn Me Loose, George Maharis
I've spent decades searching my butt off for interesting and well-recorded albums, all while some albums, including some really good ones, were just...
Yes, Fragile: Super Deluxe Edition from Rhino Entertainment
Rhino Entertainment has just released the Super Deluxe Edition of progressive rock titans Yes' fourth studio album, 1971's Fragile. Now available in an...
Rhino Opens the Vault and We are the Big Winners! Two Fantastic...
Dire Straits Live 1978-1992 Let me get right to the point! The sound quality of each and every reissue in this box set is absolutely magnificent! There...
Revisiting the Oldies: Gershwin and Copland
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue*; An American in Paris; Cuban Overture. Ivan Davis, piano*; Cleveland Orchestra/Lorin Maazel. Copland, Appalachian...
Notes on Recent Finds, No. 22 - Six Marvelous Pure DSD256...
With some of the best sonics you will ever experience, I'd like to introduce you to six recently released Pure DSD256 recordings from Eudora Records,...
Joni Mitchell, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980), on 180 gram LPs...
Rhino Entertainment continues the superb Joni Mitchell Archives Series with their latest installment, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980), which presents...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Tekton Lore Loudspeakers
This article by Steve Lefkowicz originally ran in Positive Feedback's ISSUE 60 March/April 2012, so while we call this section "New Old Stock -...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
Axxess Forté1
Audio Group Denmark wants to tap into new customer groups with its new Axxess brand. The three all-in-one devices labelled Forté are a clear sign of.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
How Loud?
Or, why recordings don't always sound the same. We listen to music in various conditions, sometimes loud, sometimes quietly. However, in order to hear...
Show Reports
THE Show 2024 - A Quick Impression
To quote an old colloquialism, "I haven't been to an audio show in a minute." I have stayed away from them for various reasons the main one being...
