March - April 2025
Audio Discourse
Spending Money
Roger Skoff at the LAOC Audio Society Gala, 2024 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger Skoff writes about the cost of building a...
The Grateful Dead, (Momentarily) Considered as a "Christian"...
An Affirmation of the Concept of Grace I can already envision the angry Comments: Herr Doktor Marks: We hereby award you the Prize for the Most...
Hardware Reviews
Audiomods Series Six LM Tonearm
In the late 1980s, I was fortunate enough to obtain the dream job of many an audiophile. I worked part-time at an audio store while attending a local...
iFi Audio Zen Phono
The last product I reviewed from iFi was their GoBlue. It is a wireless intermediary between your source and headphones. It works great. That one was a...
Interviews
Jamie Howarth of Plangent Processes: Making Recordings Sound...
This article is the third and final part of Copper Magazine's interview with Jamie Howarth by Copper Editor and good audiobud Frank Doris. We...
Hisao Natsume and Sakuraphon - An Interview and Record Label
Is music recorded on shellac discs lost to us, unless we have the right turntable? Mr. Hisao Natsume, founder of Sakuraphon, has an answer to...
Music Reviews
Warner and Rhino Start Your Ear Off Right in 2025 with Cool...
Rhino Entertainment and Warner are aiming to Start Your Ear Off Right in 2025 with 26 limited edition LP reissues and releases. The current group of...
The Rhino High Fidelity Series Continues To Set The Gold...
The title of this posting says it all. The Rhino High Fidelity Series continues to amaze! These limited numbered edition 33 rpm LP reissues are all...
Recent Finds, No. 29 HDTT Keeps Rolling with Great Releases
High Definition Tape Transfers continues to make available excellent new releases of classic albums. Here are a few recent arrivals that have been...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Kharma Exquisite-Midi loudspeakers - Scaling Mt. Everest
This article by Marshall Nack originally ran in Issue 28, 2006, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
Dark, Darker, Great - Or About the Sound in 2025
For years, "leftovers" of what biographers have called the Loudness War has dragged on. The drive by radio stations, and by extension publishers, to...
Accustic Arts Power III
With the new integrated amplifier Power III, Accustic Arts offers an integral solution comprising a high-grade digital-to-analogue converter, as well.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Nagra by Roland Schellin - a Book Review
Nagra is a brand of portable audio recorders manufactured since 1951 in Switzerland. Starting in 1997, it also offers high-end equipment for the...
Show Reports
Florida International Audio Expo 2025, My Favorite Rooms, Part 2
Here are more really great audio systems that I felt really had it going on at the Florida International Audio Expo 2025. There were an abundance of...
Florida International Audio Expo 2025, My Favorite Rooms, Part 1
The 2025 Florida International Audio Expo (FLAX) was new and improved this year, and the show took place at a new location, the Sheraton Tampa Brandon...