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Stereophile

Lyngdorf Audio MXA-8400

8-CHANNEL POWER AMPLIFIER

10+ min |

June 2025

Stereophile

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS

Jamming with cans

10+ min |

June 2025

Stereophile

A Four-Cent Cigar and the Tyranny of Better

Edward Mott Robinson, a Quaker tycoon from whaling-era Massachusetts, would turn down fine cigars. He preferred the cheap kind. “I smoke four-cent cigars, and I like them,” he declared.¹ “If I were to smoke better ones, I might lose my taste for the cheap ones that I now find quite satisfactory.”

3 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

Staying true to the passion

Steve Jain, cofounder and managing director of Fidelity Imports, has been busy since launching the company six years ago in the Philadelphia area.

4 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

FOLLOW-UP

Following Kalman Rubinson’s review and John Atkinson's testing, which were published in the April 2025 issue, the Charcoal Black Technics SC-CX700 streaming amplified speaker system was shipped to me.1 I checked out some of the features Kal described, dug into the underlying tech with Technics's Bill Voss, and spent a few dozen hours listening, especially to the system's phono circuit.

10+ min |

June 2025

Stereophile

RABBIT HOLES

The spirit of Rush ever lingers

3 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

A new vinyl perception of the Doors, all-analog

For Warner Music Group, the Doors have been a deep vein of music gold. Their albums have never been out of print, and the catalog has enjoyed regular reissues for decades. Each new version of the Doors' first six albums sells well enough to prompt another trip to the vaults.

3 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

Songs of Innocence and Experience

Much of the coverage of the passing of Marianne Faithfull has focused on her private life rather than her music. That is understandable—yet it's also regrettable because it misses the important fact that for 60 years, Faithfull produced an impressive catalog of music, releasing 21 solo studio albums plus collaborations, compilations, and live recordings.

4 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

Boulder 1151

MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER

9 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

On cables

Underpinning a discussion about the merits of potentially costly specialist audio cables is an obvious question: Why do we need them? Doesn't almost all wire conduct audio signals with negligible distortion and very little loss of power?

9 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

BRILLIANT CORNERS

What was old is new again

10+ min |

June 2025

Stereophile

MANUFACTURERS' COMMENTS

ANY CLOD CAN HAVE THE FACTS; HAVING OPINIONS IS AN ART

3 min |

June 2025

Stereophile

SPIN DOCTOR

The Garrard 301 in a new light

10+ min |

June 2025

Stereophile

ROCK OF LIFE

THE BROTHERS IN ARMS CD TURNS 40 BY MIKE METTLER

10+ min |

June 2025

Stereophile

AURAL ROBERT

Charles Tolliver and Strata-East

3 min |

June 2025

PC Gamer US Edition

WASTED

Take-Two nukes a playable GTA VI fan map

2 min |

July 2025

PC Gamer US Edition

"I get to work on placing more towers, massive pyramids, and blocky offices"

Building a dystopia is fine, so long as it's like Blade Runner in DYSTOPIKA

2 min |

July 2025

PC Gamer US Edition

"Ravenholm looks spookier than ever”

Admiring the ray-traced world of HALF-LIFE 2 RTX

1 min |

July 2025

PC Gamer US Edition

WELCOME TO VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE-BLOODLINES 2

I HAVE WOKEN UP IN AN ABANDONED BUILDING IN SEATTLE, A CENTURIES-OLD VAMPIRE WHO HAS BEEN IN A TORPOR FOR 100 YEARS. WHO FORCED ME INTO A SURPRISE SLUMBER? HOW DID I GET TO SEATTLE? AND WHY THE HECK AM I HEARING ANOTHER VAMPIRE IN MY HEAD? THESE TANTALIZING QUESTIONS ARE JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG IN A GAME THAT UNEXPECTEDLY FEELS LIKE A CLASSIC PULP NOIR DETECTIVE YARN.

10+ min |