Technology
Stereophile
As We See It
THIS ISSUE: Are audiophiles ignoring the most affordable means of achieving true high-end sound?
4 min |
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.
10+ min |
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.
3 min |
July 2017
Stereophile
A New Epoch!
Brooklyn-based Grado Labs has been in business for 64 years, manufacturing moving-iron phono cartridges, headphones, and, for a while, even a unipivot tonearm with a wooden arm wand, as well as the sophisticated, S-shaped Signature Laboratory Standard arm.
10+ min |
December 2017
Stereophile
Collecting and The Cloud
I’ll inch out on a limb here and say that most audiophiles are also collectors of recordings.
4 min |
December 2017
Stereophile
Follow-Up
PEACHTREE AUDIO NOVA300 DAC–INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER Come back, baby. You’ll find a million poems deep in your destitute soul. —Richard Hugo, “Second Chances”
6 min |
December 2017
Stereophile
All Things To All Musicians
An Artistic Incubator Grows In Brooklyn
9 min |
May 2018
Stereophile
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER
10 min |
May 2018
Stereophile
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Again!)
New Audiophile Reissues Burnish a Proud Legacy.
10+ min |
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.
10+ min |
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.
10+ min |
June 2017
Stereophile
Inside CH Precision's P1 Phono Preamplifier
Although Swiss-based CH Precision is a relatively young company, its core design team has been involved in high-performance audio for many years.
10+ min |
April 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!”
10 min |
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.
10+ min |
September 2017
Stereophile
Mytek Hifi Manhattan II
D/A Preamplifier-Headphone Amplifier
10+ min |
September 2017
Stereophile
Master Quality Authenticated
MQA’s Spencer Chrislu on reaching out to the Record Industry.
7 min |
September 2016
Stereophile
Auralic Altair
D/A Processor.
10+ min |