Stereophile - July 2021

THE BEATLES, REANIMATED

GILES MARTIN TALKS ABOUT THE BEATLES’ REMIXED, REINVENTED REVOLVER: SPECIAL EDITION

Nessie Vinylcleaner ProPlus+, RECORD CLEANING MACHINE

I ’m a music lover first, not the most Type A of audiophiles. Sure, I clean my records, but I’m not obsessive about keeping them immaculate like my audiophile father is;1 he cleans each record ultrasonically before it lands on his turntable platter, writing the date of each record’s last bath and which cleaning machine he used on the outside of a fresh plastic inner sleeve before sliding the LP back inside.

Primare PRE35 Prisma STREAMING PREAMPLIFIER

Hygge might not be the first word that comes to mind when contemplating the Primare PRE35 Prisma preamplifier, but in Limhamn, Sweden, that is how Primare likes to describe their products.

NAD C 3050 LE, BLUOS STREAMING INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

Although NAD was founded in England in 1972 as New Acoustic Dimension, my introduction to the brand was in 1980. I bought an NAD 3020 integrated amplifier after hearing it successfully drive Acoustic Research’s current-hungry AR9 loudspeakers.

Esoteric Grandioso M1X, MONO AMPLIFIER

Of all the brand lines I’ve reviewed, none’s sound has changed as much over time as Esoteric’s top-tier Grandioso series. When I first encountered Grandioso setups at shows, they consistently sounded dark.

Klipsch La Scala AL5

There’s a good case to be made that the world’s greatest— and strangest—audiophile culture resides in Japan. Probably the most important notion the Japanese have introduced to our hobby is that home audio isn’t merely a way of heightening the musical art of others but can be an art in itself.

Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Albert Murray

Among the musical

At My Window by Townes Van Zandt

Revinylization

Madman skank

REDISCOVERIES

DAVE ALVIN

JUDGING BY THE EXPERIENCES OF THE BLASTERS' GUITAR MAN, SOMETIMES BLOOD IS THICKER THAN A VINTAGE 78.