Technology
Stereophile
Revinylization
Round Trip: Ornette Coleman’s Blue Note sides
4 min |
March 2022
Stereophile
CH Precision D1.5 SACD/CD/MQA-CD Player/Transport
There’s a school of thought that maintains that among all hi-fi components, the D/A converter is easiest to perfect or come close to perfecting. Just make sure that every sample is converted accurately, that there’s little rolloff in the audioband, that aliased images are suppressed almost completely, and that background noise is extremely low, and you have a top-quality D/A processor. Use of a high-quality DAC chip is assumed.
10+ min |
March 2022
Stereophile
Analog Corner
Paradox’s remarkable Phono 70 Signature MC phono preamplifier
10+ min |
March 2022
Stereophile
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
Stax, EAR, and Bob’s Devices
10+ min |
March 2022
Stereophile
SINGING TO THE SOUL
THE MAGIC OF ART SONG ON RECORD
10+ min |
March 2022
Stereophile
MayFly Audio Systems MF-201A LOUDSPEAKER
If you’ve ever read Homer’s Iliad, you probably remember the Cata-log of Ships at the beginning. It’s an exhaustive record of the contingents the Achean army deployed against Troy, naming the commanders, their hometowns, the number of ships in each contingent, and more. Not to put too fine a point on it, it’s a snoozefest. It makes you dread what’s next. But of course, if you come to this point only to abandon the Iliad in frustration, you’ll miss the fabulous war epic that follows, chockablock with action, drama, and romance.
10+ min |
March 2022
Stereophile
Gold Note PH-1000 PHONO PREAMPLIFIER
Gold Note’s $11,999 PH-1000 is by a con-siderable margin the most sophisticated, most configurable phono preamplifier that any audio manufacturer has ever produced, at least that I know of. Remarkably, considering all that flexibility and sophistication, using and adjusting the PH-1000 is straightforward.
10+ min |
March 2022
Stereophile
“Music Was Mine to Experience.”
For all its ghastliness and heartbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has been good to Keb’ Mo’. When the virus hit the US, it forced the cancelation of a string of his concerts. “I was getting a little burned out on touring,” he confesses.
10+ min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Book Review
The Secret History of Washington, DC, R&B
4 min |
January 2022
Stereophile
Forget about the sound of the recording.
MY BACK PAGES
5 min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Iron OOR
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
10+ min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Topping Pre90
LINE PREAMPLIFIER
10+ min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Turntable setup is a diagnostic exercise
ANALOG CORNER
10+ min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Riviera Audio Laboratories Levante
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Mingus
REVINYLIZATION
4 min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Joe Henderson: Blue Note and Beyond
REDISCOVERIES
4 min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Fyne Audio F500SP
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
February 2022
Stereophile
Bowers & Wilkins 804 D4
The boxes sit there in our storage units, opposite the 20 banker’s boxes that hold 33 years’ worth of product-measurement workbooks. The two large boxes are for the Bowers & Wilkins Matrix 801s my wife owned when we got married in 1987.1 The four smaller boxes are for the B&W John Bowers Silver Signatures and their stands, which I purchased after reviewing them in June 1994.2 Both pairs of speakers gave superb sound quality back in the day, but now they sit there in the storage unit, their boxes giving me recriminatory looks when I visit.
10+ min |
January 2022
Stereophile
NOT TWISTED
TWISTED SISTER GUITARIST JAY JAY FRENCH HAS A NEW LIFE AFTER MUSIC.
10+ min |
January 2022
Stereophile
The new ultra-fi
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
10+ min |
January 2022
Stereophile
Pro-Ject Debut PRO
I enjoy few things more than setting up a turntable. Whether it’s for myself or for a friend—whether it’s a budget model with a layered MDF plinth and nonadjustable tonearm, or a megabuck, state-of-the-art behemoth—I relish the ritual.
10+ min |
January 2022
Stereophile
Acoustic Signature Montana NEO
You may be moving to Montana.Acoustic Signature is not an overnight sensation, nor are its turntables driven by dental floss. If you’re not a Frank Zappa fan, you probably have no idea what any of that means, so please Google it. I’ll wait till you get back.
10+ min |
January 2022
Stereophile
REVINYLIZATION
What’s the point?
4 min |
January 2022
Stereophile
Accustic Arts AMP V STEREO AMPLIFIER
The $50,000, 176lb Accustic Arts AMP V (pronounced Amp Five) is the heaviest, tall-est, most powerful, most expensive stereo amp to enter my audio system. With rated power of 900Wpc into 8 ohms, 1360Wpc into 4 ohms, and 1500Wpc into 2 ohms, the AMP V, which stands proud at the top of the Accustic Arts amplifier line, surpasses my reference D’Agostino Progression M550’s rated power into 4 ohms by 260Wpc.1
10+ min |
January 2022
Stereophile
Analog Corner
OMA’s K3 direct-drive turntable and custom Schröder tonearm
10+ min |
October 2021
Stereophile
Iron and light
GRAMAPHONE DREAMS
10+ min |
November 2021
Stereophile
MBL 120 Radialstrahler
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
November 2021
Stereophile
The electrical cure
ANALOG CORNER
10+ min |
November 2021
Stereophile
Estelon Forza LOUDSPEAKER
EQUIPMENT REPORT
10+ min |