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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...
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...
Recent Finds No. 24 HDTT Keeps Rolling Out Great Titles
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:...
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 Friend the Audio Analyst
E192: A Conversation with YG Acoustics' Dr. Matthew Webster
Last week we took a behind-the-scenes, in-depth tour of the YG Acoustics manufacturing facility in Arvada, Colorado by YG’s Marketing Director,.... . . Read More »
E191: Factory Tour: YG Acoustics
Today we start phase two of my recent trip to Denver with a tour of the YG Acoustics Factory conducted by their Marketing Manager, Duncan Taylor..... . . Read More »
E190: Boulder Amplifiers: A Conversation and Some Listening
Last week with E189, we got a guided tour of the monstrously large Boulder Amplifier facility in Louisville, Colorado. Today, we’ll hear a.... . . Read More »
E189: Factory Tour: Boulder Amplifiers
Last week, I spent two days in the Denver, CO area, and was able to tour and visit both YG Acoustics and Boulder Amplifiers… Today, Boulder.... . . Read More »
E188: The Silversmith Audio "Fidelium" Balanced Interconnects
Back in November 2020, I reviewed the new Silversmith ribbon speaker cables, the first product Jeff Smith, of Silversmith Cables, had brought to market.... . . Read More »
E187: The DS Audio "Grand Master" Optical Phono Cartridge System
Today I’ll take you on a guided tour of DS Audio Grand Master Optical Phono Cartridge system. That’s right. I said optical phono cartridge. No.... . . 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...
