Technology
Stereophile
500 ISSUES AND COUNTING
STEREOPHILE REACHES A PUBLISHING MILESTONE.
10+ min |
August 2021
Stereophile
Kind of great
REVINYLIZATION
4 min |
August 2021
Stereophile
Dynaudio Confidence 30
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
August 2021
Stereophile
Stealth and nuance
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
10+ min |
August 2021
Stereophile
SVS 3000 Micro
SUBWOOFER
10+ min |
August 2021
Stereophile
BRYCE DESSNER
At a time of solitude, the guitarist and composer focused on connecting.
10+ min |
August 2021
Stereophile
Thorens TD 124 DD
RECORD PLAYER
10+ min |
August 2021
Stereophile
Verity Audio Montsalvat DAC/PRE
D/A PROCESSOR
10+ min |
August 2021
Stereophile
PAT METHENY
FROM HIS PLACE
10+ min |
July 2021
Stereophile
Vincent Audio SV-737
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
July 2021
Stereophile
REVINYLIZATION
Blood, Sweat & Tears began as Al Kooper’s dream of a rock band with horns. By the time he realized the concept—on the band’s 1968 debut, Child Is Father to the Man—it had become much more: an engaging hybrid of New York soul, Greenwich Village folk, and innovative jazz arrangements. With producer John Simon at the helm, Child was a virtual definition of the possibilities inherent in the heady musical experimentation of the late 1960s. Kooper’s writing and arranging for that record (including the monumental “I’ll Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know,” later a hit for Donny Hathaway) is one of the high points of his storied career. The record was justifiably praised as the conceptual breakthrough it was, and work had already begun on a follow-up when the band decided it needed a lead singer with more polish. Kooper left the group along with a couple of other key members.
3 min |
July 2021
Stereophile
Michi by Rotel M8
MONOBLOCK AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
July 2021
Stereophile
Magico A5
It’s rare for a Stereophile reviewer to review two loud-speakers in a row from the same manufacturer, but then these are unusual times. Because of the pandemic, Magico’s M2s got stuck here for a year (I know: poor me). By the time they were packed up and shipped out, it was time for a long-scheduled review of the less-expensive, more-massive Magico A5 ($24,800/pair).
10+ min |
July 2021
Stereophile
Line Magnetic LM-845IA
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
July 2021
Stereophile
FOLLOW-UP
The greater my own longevity, the more I admire that very quality—longevity, that is. An “upgrade path” is similarly appealing—if, regrettably, rarely available to humans, who are stuck with the equipment we were born with, give or take a prosthesis or two.
8 min |
July 2021
Stereophile
Esoteric Grandioso C1X
LINE PREAMPLIFIER
10+ min |
July 2021
Stereophile
BOOK REVIEW
CHAIRMAN AT THE BOARD: RECORDING THE SOUNDTRACK OF A GENERATION, by Bill Schnee. Backbeat Books, 2021. 219pp. $24.49, hardcover; $21.49, Kindle e-book.
6 min |
July 2021
Stereophile
Classical Rock / Pop Jazz: Record Reviews
In its sixth year, International Anthem seriously stepped up production. 2020 saw the Chicago label releasing a fast succession of rewarding albums, including a standout disc by Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker and adventurous jazz by Rob Mazurek and the collective Irreversible Entanglements.
3 min |
June 2021
Stereophile
NAD C 298
POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
ELAC Alchemy DPA-2
POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
Fun with Moose and Squirrel
’Cause, it’s hard to say what’s real / When you know the way you feel —Flaming Lips, “One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21,” from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4 min |
June 2021
Stereophile
Marten Parker Trio Diamond
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
The bijou sub We have inherited an infinitely vast library of recorded musical art, the majority of which is well-recorded but has yet to be fully and completely reproduced.
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
Clearaudio Concept Active Wood
TURNTABLE
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
Focal Aria K2 936
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
DCS BARTOK DAC/HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER
THIS ISSUE: Herb Reichert on the dCS Bartók; Ken Micallef reprises his Schiit Sol review, trying it out with some better ancillaries.
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
The magnificent eight
The Story of the Grateful Dead, a 14-LP, 8-album collection of Grateful Dead recordings with booklet and deluxe packaging, from Vinyl Me, Please (VMP-A006, 2020), is intended as a curated sampling of the high points in the Dead’s extensive catalog. The first seven albums were cut from analog tape, while Without a Net comes from the original digital master. The sound is breathtaking.
4 min |
February 2021
Stereophile
T+A Solitaire P headphones and HA 200 DACheadphone amplifier
What I categorize as mainstream, dealer-based, fancy-pants stream-ers and big-speakers audio is actually only the gold-plated tip of a gigantic asteroid-like monolith that extends (underground) from New York to Hong Kong, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica. This immense audio-social mass is mostly invisible to the Madison Avenue mainstream, but simple Google searches expose millions of proletarian audio-gear constructers (DIY’ers) working in shops, basements, and garages, scratch-building everything from turntables to tonearms to phono cartridges, to capacitors and vacuum tubes, to amplifiers, headphones, ribbon and electrostatic speakers.
10+ min |
February 2021
Stereophile
MAKE MORE NOISE!
The title of this set—4 CDs and a book—comes from British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst’s call to arms for women to fight for their rights: “You have to make more noise than anybody else,” said Pankhurst, who died in 1928.
9 min |
February 2021
Stereophile
RECORD REVIEWS
EDITOR’S PICK - RECORDING OF THE MONTH
10+ min |