March - April 2025
Audio Discourse
Master Tapes, Shmaster Tapes
Watch out. This is going to be a bit of a rant. I begin to cringe every time I read/hear from audiophiles: Was it made from the master tape? Or..., It...
Spending Money
Roger Skoff at the LAOC Audio Society Gala, 2024 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger Skoff writes about the cost of building a...
The Grateful Dead, (Momentarily) Considered as a "Christian"...
An Affirmation of the Concept of Grace I can already envision the angry Comments: Herr Doktor Marks: We hereby award you the Prize for the Most...
Hardware Reviews
Coherence Systems Sorcer Apprentice and Vivid
I was passionate about music in my youth. I lived for Rock & Roll. I had a good voice and, like many young men in that era, I started learning...
Serve Vinyl on Your Best China with the Korf HS-A02 Ceramic...
I first heard about their ceramic headshell last year when I was updating my turntable setup with a vintage Micro Seiki BL-91 turntable and a...
Audiomods Series Six LM Tonearm
In the late 1980s, I was fortunate enough to obtain the dream job of many an audiophile. I worked part-time at an audio store while attending a local...
iFi Audio Zen Phono
The last product I reviewed from iFi was their GoBlue. It is a wireless intermediary between your source and headphones. It works great. That one was a...
Interviews
Jamie Howarth of Plangent Processes: Making Recordings Sound...
This article is the third and final part of Copper Magazine's interview with Jamie Howarth by Copper Editor and good audiobud Frank Doris. We...
Hisao Natsume and Sakuraphon - An Interview and Record Label
Is music recorded on shellac discs lost to us, unless we have the right turntable? Mr. Hisao Natsume, founder of Sakuraphon, has an answer to...
Music Reviews
Red Norvo with Strings
The sound of Fantasy's mono jazz records from the mid-fifties is a sound that I really love. Should you try some—and I am referring to the records...
2025 Kicks Off with a Pair of Classic OJC LP Reissues from...
For the first half of 2025, Craft Recordings has announced five new reissues to kickstart the next phase of their Original Jazz Classics (OJC) series....
Josep Colom Returns and Wow!
Mozart Piano Sonatas, Josep Colom. Eudora Records 2024 (Pure DSD256) HERE "There are good pianists, and then there is Josep Colom." * A living legend....
Yes, Close To The Edge - Super Deluxe Edition
Rhino Entertainment continues to give the Yes catalog of albums the Super Deluxe Edition treatment with a new LP/CD/BD box set of the band's fifth...
Better Late Than Never: Mariah Carey's Classic Merry Christmas...
Prior to last year's holiday season, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab caused a bit of a stir in the audiophile community when it announced the Original Master...
The Jo Stafford Collection
The Jo Stafford Collection. Jo Stafford, vocals, with various orchestras (unidentified) and assisting artists. HMV Easy 7243 5 29450 2 3 (monaural,...
Steely Dan's Katy Lied on 45 rpm, 200 gram, Clarity Vinyl UHQR...
Analogue Productions has by degrees been gradually remastering and releasing the entire Steely Dan catalog on SACDs, 180 gram LPs, and 200 gram Ultra...
Warner and Rhino Start Your Ear Off Right in 2025 with Cool...
Rhino Entertainment and Warner are aiming to Start Your Ear Off Right in 2025 with 26 limited edition LP reissues and releases. The current group of...
The Rhino High Fidelity Series Continues To Set The Gold...
The title of this posting says it all. The Rhino High Fidelity Series continues to amaze! These limited numbered edition 33 rpm LP reissues are all...
Recent Finds, No. 29 HDTT Keeps Rolling with Great Releases
High Definition Tape Transfers continues to make available excellent new releases of classic albums. Here are a few recent arrivals that have been...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Kharma Exquisite-Midi loudspeakers - Scaling Mt. Everest
This article by Marshall Nack originally ran in Issue 28, 2006, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
Dark, Darker, Great - Or About the Sound in 2025
For years, "leftovers" of what biographers have called the Loudness War has dragged on. The drive by radio stations, and by extension publishers, to...
Accustic Arts Power III
With the new integrated amplifier Power III, Accustic Arts offers an integral solution comprising a high-grade digital-to-analogue converter, as well.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Nagra by Roland Schellin - a Book Review
Nagra is a brand of portable audio recorders manufactured since 1951 in Switzerland. Starting in 1997, it also offers high-end equipment for the...
Show Reports
Maurice Jeffries and the New Apartment Lounge Visit Florida...
New Beginnings, New Challenges This year's FIAE show (February 21-23, 2025) relocated to a new venue and sported a rather different touch and feel from...
Florida International Audio Expo 2025, My Favorite Rooms, Part 2
Here are more really great audio systems that I felt really had it going on at the Florida International Audio Expo 2025. There were an abundance of...
Florida International Audio Expo 2025, My Favorite Rooms, Part 1
The 2025 Florida International Audio Expo (FLAX) was new and improved this year, and the show took place at a new location, the Sheraton Tampa Brandon...
