September - October 2021
Audio Discourse
From an Editor’s Notebook: Twain, Tobacco, and Reviewing
Ye Olde Editor in a tobacco moment (photograph by John Robinson) These thoughts are short and to the point. High-end audio is filled with reviews (many...
Kirmuss Audio Advances Record Restoration and Introduces the...
An important announcement! The energetic and brilliant Charles Kirmuss has no grass growing under his feet as he announces changes in usage of his...
Weak Links and Sorting Eggs
Roger Skoff writes about the best way to approach improving your system Just in case you'd forgotten, Roger Skoff is the former Owner/Designer of XLO...
Thoughts on the Schiit Yggdrasil Analog 2 DAC and an Interview...
Mike Moffat still photo sourced from Schiit Audio video VALENCIA, CA—Mike Moffat, 73, is co-founder of the wildly successful Schiit Audio, which...
Impressions: From an Editor’s Notebook, Part 1...ADD-POWR...
David W. Robinson, a portrait in late August of 2021. (Photograph by John Robinson.) "We will serve no wine before its time." – Carlo Rossi It's...
A Material Difference?
Roger Skoff writes about the stuff our stuff is made of... Many years ago, Goldmund, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of reference-quality audio...
The New First Watt F8 Stereo Amplifier from Nelson Pass: Time...
Whether musing about the greater understanding the Belle II particle physics experiment at KEK may bring to questions around Standard Model...
Diffusion Confusion?
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...
Hardware Reviews
Ethernet Cables from AudioQuest - Pearl, Carbon, and Diamond
Something strange happened recently that caused me to rethink the testing paradigm used by reviewers. I was multitasking, putting some low-priced music...
The ampsandsound Bryce Monos
Justin Weber, the owner of ampsandsound, has been on a roll lately. 2021 has been a big year for him. He introduced two new headphone amplifiers (The...
Aavik Acoustics RIAA R-180 Phono Preamplifier
Excellent transparency and musicality deliver musical bliss. Review By Tom Lyle With this article, Positive Feedback continues its content-sharing...
Wells Audio Innamorata II Amplifier and Commander Line Stage...
Prologue I've had the Magneplanar LRS loudspeakers in my daily-listening system for over two years now; every time I swap them out for something else,...
The PureAudioProject Duet 15 Prelude Loudspeakers
Unless you have been living under a turntable weight, you are likely aware of PureAudioProject. Founded in 2013 by Ze'ev Schlik, the collaborative...
AURALiC Sirius G2.1 and Aries G2.1
These days it seems like many high end manufacturers are building all in one digital front ends. What I mean by that is one box that consists of both...
iFi's Stellar Nova and SupaNova Power Cords
My last foray in the fiefdom of iFi focused on fixing a pair of power problems that plague too many audio setups: ground loops and DC offset. The...
Rotel's RB 1582 MKII Amplifier and RC 1572 MKII Preamplifier
I was first introduced to Rotel products back in the mid 70s when I bought my first Rotel turntable from the Stereo Buff in Springfield, MO. I was a...
Oracle Audio PH200 Mk III Phono Preamplifier
World Premiere Review! A quiet background, and extended response, making instruments sound real. Review By Tom Lyle With this article, Positive...
AirStream - Optimized Wireless Router from Fidelizer
Photo courtesy New York School of T'ai Chi Chuan Sundays at noon I take Qigong class, a Chinese discipline of standing postures and slow movements....
Triangle Art M-100 Mono Amplifiers and L-200 Preamplifier
I first came across Triangle Art around 7 years ago while scrolling through a familiar webzine. It was fortuitous as I was getting back into vinyl...
The Vanatoo Transparent One Encore Powered Loudspeakers
How's your consumer confidence these days? Mine could be better. Seems like the more I buy, the less I'm satisfied. Higher price and lower quality is...
PS Audio Stellar PowerPlant 3
There was hum in my system! It was the dreaded 60 cycle hum. So was it caused by a faulty power supply, or a power transformer too close to a high gain...
Circle Labs A200 Integrated Amplifier - Thank You
Gratitude, or the expression thereof, is a universal struggle today. There is a lot going on, and we all are a little on edge, are we not? Billy Joel...
Interviews
Audiophiles as Artists - Chris Morris
Originally published in Issue 104. Twenty questions with an audiophile who is also an artist. For this Audiophiles as Artists, we feature Chris...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 28
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 176. Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears. Columbia – CS 9720...
Music Reviews
May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson
Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson was, if nothing else, a Texas original. As founder of Austin's Thirteenth Floor Elevators, he was on the cutting edge of...
Patricia Barber, Clique
I wasn't raised from birth to be a jazz-hound; that came about as a happy accident of Reaganomics, where I suddenly found myself out of a job, and...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Stereovox SEI-600 Interconnects
This article, as reviewed by David Robinson originally ran in Issue 3, October/November 2002, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
Siltech Silver-Cables
Die niederländische Kabelmanufaktur Siltech hat ihr umfangreiches Angebot an Cinch- und XLR-Kabeln in interessanten Preisklassen aktualisiert. Diese.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Colored Vinyl
Colored vinyl, or a few words about the phenomenon of colored vinyl with the Komeda Quintet's Astigmatic in the version released on the artists 90th...
Show Reports
Flashback: California Audio Show 2018
Although some audio shows are finally back on this year, we are still mostly on hiatus. In the mean time, take a trip down Memory Lane with two reports...
