September - October 2015
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Audio Discourse
The Audio Circular No. 16: Learning (the) Vinyl Rules, Phase Two
There's anarchy afoot in the listening room; LP's are stacked everywhere, yet even in the shadow of chaos, there is a renewed love for that old...
The End of a Self–Imposed Audio Exile – The Return of...
I'm baaaack! Hey, this place looks really different. I like what you've done with the wallpaper and the new carpets. You look great too....
Raising the Sample Rate of DSD - Is There a Sweet Spot?
Andreas Koch of Playback Designs, RMAF 2014 Direct Stream Digital, or DSD, encoding has been used for years already for SACD and also as an...
Adventures in Real Sound with Mr. Shirokazu Yazaki
In Issue 78 I introduced you to the remarkable Mr. Shirokazu Yazaki of Tokyo, Japan (above, center, with friends), in my article about the SPEC RSA-M3...
Positive Feedback’s DSD seminar at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest...
Positive Feedback will once again be hosting, and I will be moderating, a panel on DSD at RMAF 2015. This year we'll be exploring a different...
The Neoteric Listener…Astell and Kern AKT5p Headphones and the...
Once you know better, who wants to live with worse? PF Editor Dave Clark once described the letdown of listening to speakers from one’s youth and...
Hardware Reviews
The Mola-Mola Suite - Makua Linestage & Kaluga Mono Amps
Mola-Mola Kaluga circuit board Some of you may recall when Class D amplification began to appear in high-end journals. There were birthing pangs, to...
Phoenix Engineering LLC RoadRunner and Eagle PSU
You would be surprised if you actually measured your turntable's platter. It may be several RPM off and you didn't even know it. I started to...
Music Hall de-be Headphones
Admittedly, I am not a headphone enthusiast. I have an old pair of open backed Grado SR 60s used occasionally for casual listening around the...
Making a Case for Convenience: Audeze EL-8 Closed Back Headphone
Audeze has come a long way from its first planar magnetic offering. The upstart company from the United States has steadily grown and offered what some...
Master & Dynamic MH 40 Meets the Schitt Valhalla 2 Single...
Today, headphones are designed for DJs, hipsters, style mongers and those willing to spend $3k on high-end "Wearable Technology." The $399...
AudioPrism WaveGuide Common Mode Noise Filtration System: Return...
There's every probability you already have an opinion about audiophile tweaks and the folks who review them. Sometimes it seems like half the...
Interviews
Reviewers' View, THE Show Newport 2015: David Robinson and Peter...
Watch David Robinson and Peter Breuninger of AV Showrooms.com, share their thoughts on the THE Show Newport 2015 on YouTube Part 2 Courtesy of AV...
Music Reviews
The Electric Recording Company and Their Reissue of...
"The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death." —From...
I Really Had to Fight to Relate… Silversun Pickups
I think I made a mistake, one of those forest-for-the-trees kinds, in hunting for a radio-friendly single on the new Silversun Pickups album. I'd...
Notes of an Amateur: Mullova's Prokofiev, Eighth Blackbird,...
Prokofiev. Viktoria Mullova. [Violin Concerto No. 2; Sonata for Two Violins, Solo Violin Sonata]. Viktoria Mullova, violin. Frankfort Radio Symphony...
Wagner and More
Tannhauser – Richard Wagner. Music and Libretto: Wagner, Romantic Opera in Three Acts. Composer: Richard Wagner. Conductor: Axel...
Suk's Asrael Symphony
The digital era's exploration of the repertoire's byways led to a new interest in the music of Josef Suk—not only the son-in-law of...
Premier LP Review of Reference Recordings: Copland Fanfare and...
Pressed by QRP on 200 gram vinyl, 33.3, half-speed mastered, this recording from 2000 is receiving its LP release for the first time. The original...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Nordost SPM Interconnects and Loudspeaker Cables
This article, by Dave Clark, Victor Chavira, Francisco Duran, and Sherman Hong, originally ran when audioMUSINGS was in print - Issue 1, 1998. At the...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
KBL Sound Signature Series Himalaya Interconnect + Speaker Cable
It is hard to find own niche on the market. The smaller the industry the smaller potential customer group and thus the more difficult is to reach them....
Combak Corporation Hijiri Million Interconnects
I guess not many of the owners of high quality audio components even realize that brands that made their devices often actually belong to the same...
KRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY: Meeting 97 - Siltech Triple Crown
Gabi was standing in the door, looking at us condescendingly while we were discussing acoustics, the microphones used and distortions. A moment before...
SPEC REAL-SOUND PROCESSOR RSP-901EX Loudspeaker Filter
There is not too many people like Mr Shirokazu Yazaki. I was tempted to write something like: are extremely rare, but I managed to hold myself back. He...
Xavian PERLA Loudspeakers
Edwin van der Kleij, the owner of Siltech, is a great fan of speakers designed by Franco Serblin. Over the years he bought all his designs with Sonus...
Show Reports
Heaven or Hell? The Lady or the Tiger? The Rocky Mountain Audio...
Driving north on I-25 after the first day of the show. It's dark, we're tired, and only one lane of three is open. It's just as bad on the...
RMAF 2015
Another year and another RMAF show is in the books. I'm going to tell you about some of the rooms that I considered to sound very, very...
Capitol Audiofest 2015
Audio is about listening. All of the good things in the high end community come out of listening and thinking about what you listened to. All of the...
Lone Star Audio Fest 2015 Show Report
With the bluebonnets in bloom spring is a lovely time to travel in Texas. Bluebonnet the Lone Star state flower For music loving audiophiles no better...
Reviewers' View, THE Show Newport 2015: David Robinson and Peter...
Watch David Robinson and Peter Breuninger of AV Showrooms.com, share their thoughts on the THE Show Newport 2015 on YouTube Part 2 Courtesy of AV...
