November - December 2015
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Audio Discourse
Our Brutus Awards for 2015 - New Additions
So yeah… been a crazy year. Not as much reviewed as we had hoped for, but yes… a few items did pass through our doorway and into our system getting...
Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2015, Part 3
[Here's the final installment of my Brutus Awards for 2015. It covers software, music, and our special PF Lifetime Achievement Award...
Impressions: Robinson’s Brutus Awards for 2015, Part 2
[Here's the second part of my Brutus Awards for 2015. Part three will appear within the next day or so.] Cables TARA Labs Zero Evolution interconnects...
Audio Ramblings - The Auralic Aries and SBooster Linear Power...
The saga, or journey, continues with my Auralic Aries adventures. In my last Ramblings (HERE) I shared my experiences with upping the Aires'...
Impressions: Robinson’s Brutus Awards for 2015, Part 1
Gather around, audiosports fans! It's that time of year again…Positive Feedback's Brutus Awards season. At the end of each year, my...
The Audio Circular No. 17: Learning (the) Vinyl Rules, Phase...
Phase Three: The Search is Over! This is final installment of my three-part series on upgrading my turntable. I've made low budget isolation...
Hardware Reviews
Fidelizer Pro 6.12: Optimizing Your PC's Core Audio Processes...
Back in the early days of digital-to-analog conversion, I bought one of the first commercially available (for consumers) DACs, a Threshold. I felt the...
JansZen zA1.1 Loudspeaker
Few audio companies can lay claim to as rich and storied a legacy as that possessed by JansZen Loudspeaker Ltd. Arthur A. Janszen is credited with the...
Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cable
Analysis Plus was established in 1993 with a unique perspective in the cable market. Proprietary computer modeling had shown that hollow oval shaped...
Sablon Audio Cable Loom
Audio cables seem to induce more fractious behaviour among audiophiles than virtually any other component of the hifi chain. The two camps comprise the...
Mojo Audio – A Glimpse of the PCM Promised Land
So there I was checking my email, and I saw that I had a message from Dave Clark asking if I was interested in reviewing some Mojo Audio gear. As I...
The SST Thoebe II and Son of Ampzilla
These are interesting pieces to have to write about in my first for Positive Feedback. When I picked them up, Dave, who hadn't heard them, said...
Interviews
Interview with Michael Lang, Editor of Stereo Magazine
The Editors Series Numbers show how much the world of hobbyist magazines has changed. In a book entitled EISA. Looking Back, Moving Forward published...
Music Reviews
Notes of an Amateur: Brentanos Play Schubert ‘Live.’ Peter...
Schubert Quintet LIve! A Live Recording of the Schubert's cello quintet by the Brentano Quartet with Michael Kammen. Azica Records. ACD...
Notes of an Amateur: Violinist Gidon Kremer, Cellist Emmanuelle...
New Seasons. Gidon Kremer. Glass, Pärt, Kanchelli, Unabeyashi. Kremerata Baltica. Deutsche Gramophone. DG 4794817. Violinist Gidon Kremer is a...
Notes of an Amateur: Podger’s Biber, Gli Incogniti’s...
Rosary Sonatas. Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Rachel Podger, violin. David Miller, theorbo and arch lute; Marcin Swiatkiewicz, harpsichord, organ;...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
The Goldman Record Cleaning System
This article, by Bruce Kinch, originally ran when Positive Feedback was in print - Vol. 6, No. 5, 1997. An Introduction The name at the head of this...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Krakow Sonic Society Meeting 98 - Roger Waters Amused to Death
Spatial sound has developed mainly thanks to the cinema. The first stereophonic system was Fantasound, created by Walt Disney's engineers to be...
Tellurium Q Silver Diamond Speaker Cable
I didn't expect Geoff Merrigan, Tellurium Q's CEO, to offer a new flagship model so quickly after the release of the Ultra Silver. It was/is an...
Rogoz Audio 3T1/BBS - Anti-Vibration Cable Stabilizers
One of the most frequent reactions of people who have never visited me before and who have nothing to do with audio, is their surprise at the sight of...
Amare Musica ASPIRIAA Phonostage
When one of the fellow audio journalists from abroad asks me about the best Polish audio brands among few I always recommend Warsaw based Amare Musica....
Einstein - The Preamp and Silver Bullet OTL Amplifiers
While getting ready to conduct another interview for "The Editors" series, I sent an appropriate enquiry to the largest printed German audio...
Show Reports
RMAF 2015 - Part 4
People. What makes shows such fun. Couldn't, didn't get enough, but here are few of our many friends that make attending shows such a great...
RMAF 2015 - Part 3
Astell & Kern. GamuT, Audio Skies, Pear Audio Blue, Lucky Dog Audio. GTT Audio, Audionet, Kronos, Kubala Sosna, YG Acoustics. Kii...
New York Audio Show 2015
Westchester, New York, November 6, 7 & 8 Roaming the sparsely populated halls of the Rye Brook Westchester Hilton during opening day of "New...
TAVES 2015 – Show Report
The TAVES Consumer Electronics Show is one event that I always look forward to. It is, by far, the show with the friendliest crowd that I have ever...
RMAF 2015 - Part 2
So there is a lot to see and hear at RMAF. So much, that just getting to the majority of rooms, saying hello, taking a few shots, and giving a quick...
RMAF 2015 - Part 1
Always a great time, but man are we getting old. Hard to do the shows like we used to in the past... just not able to make all the rooms nor sit and...
