May - June 2023
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Audio Discourse
…and Steve says…On Excellence and Expectations – and...
Last year I had the opportunity to visit with a friend and listen to their system that included the $329,000 Wilson Chronosonic XVX Loudspeakers. Their...
My Audio Oasis! Awards for AXPONA 2023: Chunklet the First
E-in-C Robinson enjoying cigars rooftop-style near the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret). Tiberias, Israel, 2022. (Photograph by John Robinson; image...
Contemplations On the Current State of High-End Audio Trade
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...
Three Good Ideas for Beating Hi-Fi Inflation
Roger Skoff writes about dealing with something that affects us all There's no denying that inflation is real. When Eater magazine recently described...
Remembering Copper's Dan Schwartz: A Friendship That Went Deep
Reprinted with permission by the author and Copper Magazine. Dan was also a contributor and good friend here at Positive Feedback. I and his friends...
Confessions of a Setup Man 11: Can a System be too Good?
PF Senior Associate Editor shares with us one of his columns from PS Audio's Copper Magazine, Issue 127, December of 2020. He raises excellent issues...
Hardware Reviews
Hana Umami Blue Moving-Coil Cartridge
In my search for the Sweetheart of the most popular phono cartridge lines, offering the highest value and top performance for the price, the Hana...
The iFi Neo Stream DAC - A Modern Musical Marvel for the Money!
The iFi Neo Stream network audio streamer is a sterling representation of smart audio design, boasting an open, musical delivery from a simple and...
The New Apartment Lounge: Von Schweikert Audio's Game Changing...
Back Up the Loudspeaker Evolutionary Ladder Last summer I waxed enthusiastically about Von Schweikert Audio's remarkable Endeavor Special Edition (ESE)...
Fono Acustica FAL-2 Cable Lift
There's no getting around it, cable lifts are controversial. With so many competing designs and theories all claiming to remediate the same...
Parasound HALO JC 5 Amplifier
The Parasound JC 5 stereo amplifier has been in continuous production since 2018 and has been reviewed many times over the years including reviews in...
Topping E70 Velvet DAC: Bringing Delta-Sigma Playback of Native...
Back in February, I received a series of unsettling emails from Dalibor Kasac, my contact at Euphony Audio in Croatia, telling me about a discovery...
Interviews
A Conversation with John Haley - Audio Restoration Magician
In the past several years, I've been simply stunned by the sound quality of vintage recordings released by HDTT that credit the audio restoration work...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 36
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 216. Blondie, "Heart of Glass"/ "Heart of Glass (instrumental)." Chrysalis –...
Music Reviews
You Need Only One - Reiner's Scheherazade from HDTT
Ann and I just finished listening to the Reiner/CSO performance of Scheherazade (RCA Living Stereo, 1960) and we were entranced once again by just how...
An Alluring Ménage of Superb LP Selections from Sam Records
I continue to be delighted by the amazing titles coming out of Sam Records. If you have not heard the backstory by now, let me provide some additional...
George de Witt's Name That Tune
Sometimes happiness arrives in simplest of forms, and this obscure LP by George Dewitt (1922 - 1979) is a perfect example. In today's world George...
Rhino High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series Debuts with Classic LPs...
Shore Fire Media has just announced the first two titles from a new LP reissue program, the Rhino High Fidelity Premium Vinyl Series. Rhino High...
The New Rhino High Fidelity Series - The Cars And John Coltrane...
When it comes to audiophile quality reissues, there seems to be a myriad of options these days. My apologies up front, as I am sure that I will miss...
Pekka Kuusisto and Yarlung Records in Pure DSD256
Symmetria Pario: Creation, Pekka Kuusisto, violin, Joonas Ahonen, piano. Yarlung Records 2023 (Pure DSD256, Stereo, MCh) HERE When you take...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Eminent Technology LFT-11 Planar Magnetic Multimedia
This article by Gary Beard originally ran in Issue 10, October/November 2003, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E147: The WiiM Streaming Experience
When I started piloting the concept for “Second Space,” I wasn’t exactly sure how I would stream to this new space. Poking into really affordable.... . . Read More »
E146: STEALTH Audio Cables
Today, we meet Serguei Timachev, the brilliant designer behind STEALTH Audio Cables. I’ll talk about his design methods and share the importance of.... . . Read More »
E145: DS Audio's ES-001 Eccentricity Detection Stabilizer
Today I want to share with you one of the most effective and remarkable LP accessories I’ve ever tried, the $6,000 DS Audio’s ES-001, an.... . . Read More »
E144: The Audience ClairAudient 1+1 V5 Loudspeaker
Today, in the first full dive into the Second Space concept, we are going to take a closer look at, and listen to, the remarkable Audience ClairAudient.... . . Read More »
E143: The Hana Umami Red MC Cartridge
Today, I want to introduce you to what may be arguably the “Best Buy” in analog phono cartridges today. With an asking price of $3950 and a.... . . Read More »
E142: System Update with Maurice Jeffries
Today’s presentation with Maurice Jeffries was recorded during his most recent Labor Day Weekend visit to hear how my reference system had evolved.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Kryna Helca 1 and Helca 2 Passive RFI/EMI Filters
Kryna Inc. was established on 21st May 1980 in the city of Machida-shi, which is part of Tokyo Metropolis. Its CEO is Mr. Ryoka Ina who employs only...
John Coltrane, Blue Train Remaster 2022 Part 1: Technique
Everything you want to know about the recording of Blue Train's behind-the-scenes and which of the digital reissues of this jazz masterpiece are the...
Digital Audio Workstation or DAW - Part 3
Or about computer sound recording systems. Pt. 3 : MUSIC (II) It all started in January 1971 with the world's first LP with digitally recorded...
dCS Vivaldi APEX DAC
dCS is a British company based in Cambridge focused on development of digital audio sources—D/A converters, SACD and files players. It made its debut...
Show Reports
Audio Engineering Society 2023 Conference in Helsinki
The Audio Engineering Society has been giving two conventions a year for decades, with an annual show that has traditionally moved between the east...
AXPONA 2023…Greg Weaver on the YouTube Front!
Greg Weaver checking out...Greg Weaver! AXPONA 2023 was as stirring a success as portended! Here is a link to my promotional episode highlighting the...
AXPONA 2023 Bigger and Better; Scribbles from My Spiral Jotter
A small crowd murmurs and looks on as two sturdy men in navy company polos and slacks gingerly lift, rock, and place a pair of nineteen thousand dollar...
