Technology
Stereophile
Power Tripping
Some of our readers seem to believe that the essence of high-quality audio is disclosed primarily by science, and not by dreamy, bodice-ripping adventures that take place on plush carpets behind closed doors.
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April 2017
Stereophile
Analog Corner
CH Precision’s P1 phono preamplifier, which I wrote about in the April 2017 issue, is not going back to its manufacturer.
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June 2017
Stereophile
The Permanent Jazz Festival
The Rise of Europe and the Future of Jazz.
10 min |
March 2017
Stereophile
Bowers & Wilkins 805 D3
I have had a long relationship with Bowers & Wilkins.
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March 2017
Stereophile
Aerial Acoustics 5T
Long-lived loudspeaker models are rare.
7 min |
March 2017
Stereophile
The Tight Lines Project
WE LAST RELEASED A RECORDING ON THE STEREOPHILE LABEL SIX YEARS AGO—A JAZZ ALBUM FEATURING ATTENTION SCREEN, THE LATE BOB REINA’S FREE-JAZZ ENSEMBLE. THIS DRY SPELL WAS MAINLY DUE TO THE INCREASING DEMANDS MADE ON OUR EDITORIAL TEAM’S TIME BY SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE MAGAZINE’S WEBSITE, BUT ALSO BY JOHN ATKINSON’S RECORDING ACTIVITIES WITH THE PORTLAND STATE CHAMBER CHOIR, WHO ISSUE THEIR RECORDINGS ON THEIR OWN LABEL. NEVERTHELESS, WE’VE BEEN KEEPING OUR EYES AND EARS OPEN FOR SUITABLE OPPORTUNITIES.
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May 2017
Stereophile
The Virtues of Vintage
They don’t make ’em like they used to.
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October 2016
Stereophile
Bel Canto Design e. One REF600M- Monoblock Power Amplifier
Has it really been more than seven years since I reviewed Bel Canto’s REF1000M monoblock?1
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October 2016
Stereophile
Analog Corner
THIS ISSUE: Zesto’s Andros Téssera phono preamp and Acoustic Signature’s revised Ascona turntable and TA-9000 tonearm.
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July 2017
Stereophile
Follow-Up
The words right and wrong and good and bad make me uncomfortable. Assigning virtue or value is against my religion. And thinking that I know the best way to design a loudspeaker, amplifier, or record player would only prove that I’m a conceited old fool. Therefore . . .
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July 2017
Stereophile
Jason Victor Serinus - Audionet Max
Monoblock Power Amplifier
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July 2017
Stereophile
New Age.
Having Survived Cancer And New Age, The Solo Pianist Climbs Aboard His Carousel
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July 2017
Stereophile
Enough With The Hobby Already
As We See It.
4 min |
August 2017
Stereophile
MQA, DRM, And Other Four-letter Words
MQA, DRM, And Other Four-letter Words
7 min |
May 2018
Stereophile
PrimaLuna ProLogue Premium
Let us pretend . . . you have a pair of loudspeakers that have proven themselves to sound articulate and musically responsive in your room, without excess boom, bloom, or frail leanness.
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November 2016
Stereophile
NAD Masters Series M50.2
Back in May 2014, I reviewed NAD’s Masters Series M50 Digital Music Player ($2499) and M52 Digital Music Vault ($1999 with 2TB storage). 1 At the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, NAD announced the M50.2, which is almost identical to the original M50 but now incorporates two 2TB hard disks, arranged as a 2TB RAID array, to ensure data integrity, and adds TosLink and coaxial digital inputs, Bluetooth with aptX for streaming music from a smartphone or tablet, and two single-ended analog inputs—all for $3999, or $499 less than the combined cost of the two earlier products.
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December 2017
Stereophile
As We See It - Not-So-Giant Steps
I’m a thirty-year-old puppy doing what I’m told And I’m told there’s no more coal for the older engines,” —ANDY PARTRIDGE,
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September 2017
stereophile
as we see it
steve guttenberg's 116th dream.
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november 2016
Stereophile
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Again!)
New Audiophile Reissues Burnish a Proud Legacy.
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June 2017
Stereophile
Listening
There was a fight. And when the fight took a turn for the worse and things began being broken and thrown, it was time to leave. Not later. Not soon. Now.
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June 2017
Stereophile
Gramophone Dreams
As much as I delight in pagan dreams of sweetly perfumed garden nymphs, I’m embarrassed to admit that my mind also drifts in pleasant reveries whenever I hear the words research and development in the same sentence.
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June 2017
Stereophile
Auralic Altair
D/A Processor.
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March 2017
Stereophile
Both Sides Now
An Interview With Record Producer Joe Harley, of Audioquest and Music Matters Jazz
10 min |
January 2017
Stereophile
As We See It
THIS ISSUE: Are audiophiles ignoring the most affordable means of achieving true high-end sound?
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July 2017
Stereophile
Listening
THIS ISSUE: A belt-drive turntable with a skeletal plinth, an acrylic platter, and an apparently lowish-torque DC motor. From Serbia.
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July 2017
Stereophile
Record Reviews
The blues, that wonderful basis of so much American popular music, has for many listeners grown a bit stale and old-fashioned. It’s not much of a draw outside bar bands, and other than Alligator Records and APO Records, most of the biggest blues labels have folded or gone dormant. Losing many of the music’s first- and secondgeneration practitioners hasn’t helped.
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July 2017
Stereophile
Analog Corner - Notes From The Road
At audio events held by the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society, I’m usually called on to speechify about one thing or another, or to roast an honoree at one of the Society’s December Galas.1 But at last spring’s Los Angeles Audio Show,2 Bob Levi, the Society’s president, quipped, “This is one awards dinner where you won’t have to entertain—so relax and enjoy!”
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September 2017
Stereophile
Listening - Shindo Redux
As with the older Monbrison and Masseto alike, the line stage of the new Monbrison is based on a stereo pair of triode-pentode tubes—in this case, the Telefunken ECL 94S, used in the previous Monbrison.
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September 2017
Stereophile
Mytek Hifi Manhattan II
D/A Preamplifier-Headphone Amplifier
10+ min |
September 2017
Stereophile
Ortofon Launches The Windfeld Ti Cartridge
Ortofon, which turns 100 next year, launched the original Windfeld cartridge nearly a decade ago. Named for cartridge designer Per Windfeld—who had just retired at age 75, after 30 years with the company—that top-of-the-line cartridge cost $3400 at the time of its introduction.
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