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The New Apartment Lounge - There and Back Again: Wrapping My Head Around Kronos Audio′s Radical Kronoscope RS Tonearm

New Kids on the Block Back in late fall 2021, as most of the nation impatiently wiped layer upon accumulated layer of sleep from COVID-19 weary eyes, GTT Audio & Video's head honcho Bill Parish bravely invited a small group of reviewers to his sprawling suburban New Jersey listening rooms,...

From an Editor's Notebook: A Trip to Montreal and Kronos Audio, a Photo Essay

David W. Robinson

E-in-C Robinson photographing at the Kronos factory, Montreal, 2022 (photograph by Bill Parish; image processing by Robinson) If you've been following my comments since last February, you're well aware of the fact that I have been repeatedly stating my extremely pleased astonishment at Louis Desjardins' Discovery Turntable System. So have...

From an Editor's Notebook: My YouTube comments on the Kronos Discovery Turntable with Discovery RS Tonearm

David W. Robinson

Dr. David enjoying a fine cigar on the deck of Louis Desjardins' home in Montreal, Canada, 2022. (Photograph by Bill Parish; image processing by Robinson) Just last weekend I returned from a three-day trip to Montreal, Canada. I was there to visit Louis Desjardins of Kronos, creator of the extraordinary...

KRONOS Discovery Resonance Suppression Tonearm

Greg Weaver

Three weeks ago, I had the pleasure of introducing you to the two new KRONOS Resonance Suppression tonearms, the Kronoscope RS and the Discovery RS. In that episode's interview with Louis Desjardins, recorded in his factory in Montreal, he indicated that he would be sending me one of the new...

An Audio Triangulation, Part 3: Final Thoughts on the KRONOS Discovery LP Playback System

David W. Robinson

Louis Desjardins and David W. Robinson: a moment. (Photograph by Bill Parish; image processing by David W. Robinson) You know, I just knew that Louis Desjardins was up to something. Last spring, I got a very excited Facetime call from him, talking about a discovery that he had made. No,...

An Audio Triangulation, Part 2: Up the Long Ladder...Maurice Jeffries Weighs in on the KRONOS Discovery LP Playback System and What It Signals for High-End Audio

Maurice Jeffries

Up the Long Ladder Maurice Jeffries at GTT Audio: a portrait. Long Valley, NJ, 2021 I won't rehash here either the science behind KRONOS Audio's remarkable line of turntables, or the engineering insights that led Louis Desjardin, the turntable design world's current enfant terrible, to pursue his revolutionary approach to...

An Audio Triangulation, Part 1…The KRONOS Discovery LP Playback System: Sui Generis

Greg Weaver

Greg Weaver, a fresco portrait. Chicago, 2018 (photograph and fresco image processing by David W. Robinson) It should come as no real surprise that paradigm shifts in the performance capabilities of hyper-audio gear come rarely. In my fifty-plus years in and around this industry, I have witnessed scant few. The...

Robinson's Positive Feedback Brutus Awards for 2018, Part the Second

David W. Robinson

van den Hul Colibri Signature Stradivarius (the second coming!) Late in 2017, Randy Forman…he of Finest Fidelity distribution fame, and a jolly good gent…got me a van den Hul Colibri Signature Stradivarius (CSS). It got its break-in and fun run-out in the later days of the class vintage professional turntable,...

Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2017, Part the Second

David W. Robinson

Ye Olde Editor, contemplating life... Nagra HD DAC with MPS External Power Supply One of the legendary companies in fine audio is Nagra. As a lifelong lover of reel-to-reel recorders, I've known the name for decades…it's highly respected. In conjunction with the extraordinary Sound Galleries SGM2015, we brought in two...

Brief Impressions: GTT Audio, Audionet, YG Acoustics, KRONOS, and Kubala-Sosna, a Return to the Mountaintop!

David W. Robinson

In which our hero meditates… The Audionet HEISENBERG Monoblock Amplifiers, bi-amped, with the YG Acoustics Sonja XV Loudspeakers and Kubala-Sosna Realization cables. In the fall of 2016 I reported on an extraordinary time that I had when I flew to Newark, NJ, and visited Bill Parish of GTT Audio for...

Impressions: The KRONOS Pro LE Turntable, Black Beauty Tonearm, and Air Tight PC-1 Supreme MC Cartridge

David W. Robinson

The KRONOS Pro LE Turntable with Black Beauty Tonearm, photograph courtesy of KRONOS Audio. Take a breath. A shift of gear, now. From reference-grade DSD DACs to reference-grade turntables. This will be the third of three turntable evaluations that I've done over the past year, rounding out what's turned out...

Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2016, Part The Second

David W. Robinson

Gather around, audiosports fans! It's that time of year again…Positive Feedback's Brutus Awards season. Here is 'Part The Second' of Robinson's Brutus Awards 2016. Part The First can be found HERE and Part The Third HERE. Electronics, Part 1 Gryphon Audio Kalliope Quad and Qcto (256fs and 512fs) DSD DAC The Gryphon Audio...

Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2015, Part 3

David W. Robinson

[Here's the final installment of my Brutus Awards for 2015. It covers software, music, and our special PF Lifetime Achievement Award (posthumous) for my dear friend, Bobby Palkovic. This has been a ton of writing to complete the Brutus Awards this year; I hope that you find them to be helpful as...

Impressions: Robinson’s Brutus Awards for 2015, Part 1

David W. Robinson

Gather around, audiosports fans! It's that time of year again…Positive Feedback's Brutus Awards season. At the end of each year, my unindicted co-conspirator Dave Clark and I give our Positive Feedback awards. These are our annual "best stuff we heard this year" plaudits. No padding, crap, junk food, or meaningless...

Impressions: Robinson's Audio Oasis! Awards for THE Show Newport Beach 2014

David W. Robinson

Turning; turning back. 2014. Another year, another THE Show Newport Beach in the books. This has become a favorite audio event on my calendar; the combination of southern California weather at the end of May, a great venue, a solid organization, and a great turnout from audio and music distributors...

Impressions: A Postcard From New Jersey about GTT Audio

David W. Robinson

Ye Olde Editor the seeker: A moment in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Israel, 2022 (photograph by John Robinson). Well, actually from Long Valley, NJ, the home base of Bill Parish and GTT Audio. Because there's significant news from that site. Those of you who have been following my reviews, photo essays, and...

Waters on the Hardware: A Life-Changing Visit to GTT Audio

Dean Waters

Dean Waters with Cigar: a study. 2023 Pacific Audio Fest, Seatac, WA (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Throughout our lives we encounter special moments that are so transformative that we know that we will always remember exactly where we were and what we were doing the moment...

Impressions: My AXPONA 2024 Audio Oasis! Awards, Part This One...

David W. Robinson

Ye Olde Editor delivering the goods, Corvallis, Oregon, 1972. (Photograph by John Hull.) Yes, I've always been this way. Munich has come and gone...so has my serious bout with pneumonia...and I'd like to get my AXPONA 2024 Audio Oasis! Awards published before any more time goes by. (These are two...

Impressions: the Pacific Audio Fest 2023, a Photo-Essay - Part the First

David W. Robinson

Ye Olde Editor with the rare La Flor Dominicana Andalusian Bull Cigar: a moment of contemplation. Happy Valley, OR, 2018. (Photograph by John Robinson.) The Pacific Audio Fest 2023. June 23-25 of 2023 in Seattle (SeaTac) WA. The Great Northwest. In a nutshell: What a blast! World's largest fine audio...

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The New Apartment Lounge - There and Back Again: Wrapping My Head Around Kronos Audio′s Radical Kronoscope RS Tonearm

From an Editor's Notebook: A Trip to Montreal and Kronos Audio, a Photo Essay

From an Editor's Notebook: My YouTube comments on the Kronos Discovery Turntable with Discovery RS Tonearm

KRONOS Discovery Resonance Suppression Tonearm

An Audio Triangulation, Part 3: Final Thoughts on the KRONOS Discovery LP Playback System

An Audio Triangulation, Part 2: Up the Long Ladder...Maurice Jeffries Weighs in on the KRONOS Discovery LP Playback System and What It Signals for High-End Audio

An Audio Triangulation, Part 1…The KRONOS Discovery LP Playback System: Sui Generis

Robinson's Positive Feedback Brutus Awards for 2018, Part the Second

Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2017, Part the Second

Brief Impressions: GTT Audio, Audionet, YG Acoustics, KRONOS, and Kubala-Sosna, a Return to the Mountaintop!

Impressions: The KRONOS Pro LE Turntable, Black Beauty Tonearm, and Air Tight PC-1 Supreme MC Cartridge

Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2016, Part The Second

Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2015, Part 3

Impressions: Robinson’s Brutus Awards for 2015, Part 1

Impressions: Robinson's Audio Oasis! Awards for THE Show Newport Beach 2014

Impressions: A Postcard From New Jersey about GTT Audio

Waters on the Hardware: A Life-Changing Visit to GTT Audio

Impressions: My AXPONA 2024 Audio Oasis! Awards, Part This One...

Impressions: the Pacific Audio Fest 2023, a Photo-Essay - Part the First

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