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Revinylization
Stereophile

Revinylization

Round Trip: Ornette Coleman’s Blue Note sides

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March 2022
CH Precision D1.5 SACD/CD/MQA-CD Player/Transport
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.

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March 2022
Analog Corner
Stereophile

Analog Corner

Paradox’s remarkable Phono 70 Signature MC phono preamplifier

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March 2022
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
Stereophile

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS

Stax, EAR, and Bob’s Devices

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March 2022
SINGING TO THE SOUL
Stereophile

SINGING TO THE SOUL

THE MAGIC OF ART SONG ON RECORD

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March 2022
MayFly Audio Systems MF-201A LOUDSPEAKER
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.

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March 2022
Gold Note PH-1000 PHONO PREAMPLIFIER
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.

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March 2022
“Music Was Mine to Experience.”
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.

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February 2022
Book Review
Stereophile

Book Review

The Secret History of Washington, DC, R&B

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January 2022
Forget about the sound of the recording.
Stereophile

Forget about the sound of the recording.

MY BACK PAGES

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February 2022
Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G
Stereophile

Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G

LOUDSPEAKER

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February 2022
Iron OOR
Stereophile

Iron OOR

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS

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February 2022
Topping Pre90
Stereophile

Topping Pre90

LINE PREAMPLIFIER

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February 2022
Turntable setup is a diagnostic exercise
Stereophile

Turntable setup is a diagnostic exercise

ANALOG CORNER

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February 2022
Riviera Audio Laboratories Levante
Stereophile

Riviera Audio Laboratories Levante

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

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February 2022
Mingus
Stereophile

Mingus

REVINYLIZATION

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February 2022
Joe Henderson: Blue Note and Beyond
Stereophile

Joe Henderson: Blue Note and Beyond

REDISCOVERIES

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February 2022
Fyne Audio F500SP
Stereophile

Fyne Audio F500SP

LOUDSPEAKER

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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.

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January 2022
NOT TWISTED
Stereophile

NOT TWISTED

TWISTED SISTER GUITARIST JAY JAY FRENCH HAS A NEW LIFE AFTER MUSIC.

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January 2022
Stereophile

The new ultra-fi

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS

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January 2022
Pro-Ject Debut PRO
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.

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January 2022
Acoustic Signature Montana NEO
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.

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January 2022
REVINYLIZATION
Stereophile

REVINYLIZATION

What’s the point?

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January 2022
Accustic Arts AMP V STEREO AMPLIFIER
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

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January 2022
Analog Corner
Stereophile

Analog Corner

OMA’s K3 direct-drive turntable and custom Schröder tonearm

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October 2021
Iron and light
Stereophile

Iron and light

GRAMAPHONE DREAMS

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November 2021
MBL 120 Radialstrahler
Stereophile

MBL 120 Radialstrahler

LOUDSPEAKER

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November 2021
The electrical cure
Stereophile

The electrical cure

ANALOG CORNER

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November 2021
Estelon Forza LOUDSPEAKER
Stereophile

Estelon Forza LOUDSPEAKER

EQUIPMENT REPORT

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November 2021