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Technology

Stereophile

Stereophile

Line Magnetic LM-845IA

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

10+ min  |

July 2021
Stereophile

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

Stereophile

Esoteric Grandioso C1X

LINE PREAMPLIFIER

10+ min  |

July 2021
Stereophile

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

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

Stereophile

NAD C 298

POWER AMPLIFIER

10+ min  |

June 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

ELAC Alchemy DPA-2

POWER AMPLIFIER

10+ min  |

June 2021
Stereophile

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

Stereophile

Marten Parker Trio Diamond

LOUDSPEAKER

10+ min  |

June 2021
Stereophile

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

Stereophile

Focal Aria K2 936

LOUDSPEAKER

10+ min  |

June 2021
Stereophile

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

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

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

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

Stereophile

RECORD REVIEWS

EDITOR’S PICK - RECORDING OF THE MONTH

10+ min  |

February 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Landscape into music

It says something about the power of music that some individuals fading into dementia can still recognize the music they knew earlier in their lives. Not to denigrate new music, or music one hasn’t heard before, but our mental jukeboxes award top chart numbers to music that we have lived with over time. Those DJs making their playlists in our brain are the toughest of critics. They don’t care what anyone else might think, “Close to You” is staying in the rotation. Music and memory are linked.

4 min  |

February 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Some great new reissues

For jazz fans, a new batch of releases in Blue Note’s Tone Poet series—vinyl reissues remastered with care and cut from the original analog tapes—is the reason for celebration.

4 min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

PS Audio Stellar M1200

MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

McIntosh MAC7200

STEREO RECEIVER

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Marantz Model 30

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

KEF LS50 Meta LOUDSPEAKER

LOUDSPEAKER

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Cambridge Audio CXA81

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

BOWIE, CURATED

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE ICON’S PASSING, A FAN REVIEWS THE POSTHUMOUS RELEASES

10 min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Acora Acoustics SRB

LOUDSPEAKER

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Some truly affordable phono cartridges

Someone once asked me, “If I buy your $90,000, 25W amplifier, what will I get that I am not getting with my $2000, 200W amplifier?” My answer was simple: “Goosebumps, tears, and smirking.” Great, well-tuned audio systems, at all price levels, give their owners less of the annoying and distracting stuff and more of the exciting and engaging stuff. Great systems offer more opportunities for smirking pridefully while listening to great recordings.

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Scrubbing bubbles

THIS ISSUE: A new ultrasonic record-cleaning machine and a very pretty cartridge with a body made from Blue River Agate.

10+ min  |

January 2021
Stereophile

Stereophile

Alta Audio Alyssa

At first look, our November 2020 review of the standmount loudspeaker ($5000/pair) from Alta Audio1 appeared to be a thorough vindication of the Stereophile method of reviewing, combining measurements with a subjective listening journal. John Atkinson’s measurements were generally fine, but he uncovered “strong discontinuities in the impedance traces at 174Hz and 291Hz [that] imply the presence of resonances.” They could only be internal airspace resonances, since he found the Alyssa’s cabinet to be admirably inert.

8 min  |

December 2020
Stereophile

Stereophile

MBL NOBLE SERIES N31 CD PLAYER–D/A PROCESSOR

In Stereophile’s February 2018 issue,1 I reviewed the MBL Noble Line N31, a baroque-styled CD player and D/A processor from German manufacturer MBL.2

6 min  |

December 2020