September - October 2025
Audio Discourse
Pre-Owned Pleasure
Roger Skoff writes about getting the best boom for your buck... Many a long year ago, even before HiFi prices got to the stratospheric levels they're...
Musings on Music and Media and Life's Transitions
Musing here... As I listen the the HDTT release of Sonny Rollins' Way Out West in the DXD mastering of the tape transfer HERE, I was prompted to...
Hardware Reviews
Audio-Technica AT-LP8x Turntable
What happened to all of the luxury Japanese turntables? You know the ones I mean: those tall, chunky, rosewood-veneered JVCs and Denons and even...
Charisma Audio™ Caprisse Bookshelf Loudspeakers
So you want to travel back in time to the mid-1970s to buy a brand new (back then) 1975-era pair of Quad ESL-57 loudspeakers. Okay… I get it. The...
Starkrimson Mono Ultra Premium Amplifiers from Orchard Audio
Rarely does technology trickle up into the high-end realm of two-channel audio playback. Yet, in the case of Class D amplification, this has indeed...
The Premier of Two Extraordinary Audiophile Accessories by...
Bob Levi, a portrait. (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) I am delighted to have the first opportunity to experience the perfected...
Music Reviews
Heart's Classic Album Dreamboat Annie, Now on 45 rpm, 180 gram...
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab honors the 50th anniversary of Heart's Dreamboat Annie with a deluxe 45 rpm, 180 gram LP reissue of the band's classic debut....
Recent Finds No. 51 Cornucopia of Excellence from NativeDSD
We have a virtual cornucopia of excellence from NativeDSD for this edition of Recent Finds. Following the release of Eudora's outstanding Pure DSD256...
When Two Masters Play Side-by-Side... Extraordinary release from...
When two masters play side-by-side, magic happens. So it is with this excellent new recording from pianists extraordinaire Josep Colom and Javier...
Chet Atkins' It's a Guitar World
If you're a vinyl-spinning audiophile and you love great guitarists, you should listen to Chet Atkins (1924-2001). Heck, even if you don't spin vinyl...
Delius Revisited
The Fenby Legacy: Music of Delius. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Eric Fenby. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP (CD) 9008/9 (2 CDs; recorded 1981-3). Songs of...
Rhino Entertainment and Warner Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of...
Rhino Entertainment and Warner are celebrating the 75th anniversary of iconic label Elektra Records with twenty limited edition LP reissues and...
New Vinyl That Somehow is not Getting the Luv and Attention That...
Wilco, A.M. (Rhino High Fidelity) I am a Chicago guy, and I have been a long term loyal fan of Wilco since the very beginning of the band. Wilco was...
Miles Davis "Milestones" in Pure DSD256 from HDTT, and It is...
Every now and then, something really special comes our way. And today it has. A new release from HDTT of Miles Davis' album, Milestones, in a gorgeous,...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
EAR 890 Amplifier
This article by Robert Levi originally ran in 2003, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are also going...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E242: A Conversation with Next Level HiFi
Over the past several years, I’ve had many interactions with and gotten to know the staff at Next Level HiFi in Wayne, Illinois. Today, we will hear.... . . Read More »
E241: Børresen Acoustics T5 SSE Preview
Today, I’m presenting a preview of the pinnacle model of the latest Børresen Acoustics T series lineup, the majestic T5 Silver Supreme Edition,.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Enlighten Me! - A Few Words about the Reliable UberLight Frame
In 2021, the Canadian company Reliable Corporation presented the Uberlight Flex lamp for audiophiles who use turntables. It had the shape of an...
Show Reports
Audio Advice Live 2025: An Ambitious Regional Audio/Visual...
Audio Advice Live 2025 took place August 1-3, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel. I hadn't been to Raleigh in over...
