November - December 2024
Audio Discourse
Bah! Humbug!
Roger Skoff: a moment. Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society Gala. Buena Park, CA, 2024 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson)...
2024 Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards [UPDATED]
Beginning at the end of 2003, Positive Feedback established its first annual awards for fine audio. The Brutus Award was established for the best that...
Audiophile Economics - Part 2
Roger Skoff writes about why things cost what they do In the first part of this article, I wrote about how pricing works, using not only our own...
My Experience with the GTT Audio Reference Listening System
Pastor Dave Robinson and Bill Parish with the Vivid Audio Moya M1 Loudspeaker A little about myself: This is a very brief review of the experience of...
Hardware Reviews
Euphony Audio's Stylus OS 4.0 (RC 24), in Combination with...
Over a decade ago, the late John Sunier of Audiophile Audition called me with a hardware review offer for the original AURALiC Aries streamer. I was...
The GIK Acoustics Q7D Diffuser
Over the years I've worked on refining the sound in my listening room by both upgrading/changing components and adding room treatments. Not sure why,...
iFi Audio ZEN Phono 3 - Let's Make Some Friends
I recently met a good friend for dinner and we got to talk about all things audio. It was there that he pondered an earth-shaking scenario to me. He...
Manley Laboratories Oasis Phono Stage - Playing with the Big
A portrait of EveAnna Manley of Manley Laboratories, Denver, CO, 2019 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Manley Labs is a...
The Synergistic Research Pink Fuse, Low Hanging Fruit That Just...
Backstory By accident, I recently blew a fuse in a Synergistic Research Galileo SX Ground Block. I won’t get into all the details, but let’s just...
Lorenzo Audio Labs LM1 Loudspeakers
It was at the 2023 Munich High End Show that I discovered some truly remarkable loudspeakers, the Lorenzo Audio Labs LM1 from Spain. They were music to...
Triode Wire Labs American II Series Power Cord
By far, the most common blind spot that most audiophiles I have met and chatted with seem to have, is the lack of awareness of the importance of the...
Audiomods 12" Series Six Tonearm
In 2020 Jeff Spalls introduced the Audiomods Series Six tonearm, providing many analog hobbyists with an opportunity to experience excellent yet...
Fyne Audio F1-8S Loudspeaker
Over the course of my audiophile journey, I've owned, reviewed, or auditioned many different types of loudspeakers, from electrostatic to planar, from...
Goldring 1012GX Cartridge
"They're boxy, but they're good." That was the slogan coined for Volvo cars by Dudley Moore's unhinged ad exec in the mediocre 1990 movie farce, Crazy...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 42
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 246. ABC, "The Look of Love (USA remix-dub version)"/ "The Look of Love (part 3...
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 41
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 241. Shelly Manne & His Men – At the Blackhawk Vol.1. Contemporary Records –...
Music Reviews
New Release and Reissue LPs from Barenaked Ladies, OPA, Bush,...
Craft Recordings continues to drop great late-year releases, and I have four more here you'll definitely want to check out! These albums criss-cross...
Mercy, Love Can Make You Happy
The history behind the band Mercy, from Tampa, Florida, is one of the more complicated rock and roll stories that I've tried to understand. On its...
Harry Potter, Original Motion Picture Soundtracks I-VII in...
Rhino Entertainment has just released four sprawling, color-coordinated, exclusive 16-LP box sets for Harry Potter: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks...
Rhino's Slate of Black Friday Record Store Day LPs Features...
Rhino Entertainment has another eclectic and impressive slate of limited-edition LPs available for Record Store Day Black Friday coming on November...
A Diverse Offering of LPs from Craft Recordings Just in Time for...
Craft Recordings has announced a striking offering of limited-edition LPs for the upcoming Black Friday celebration of Record Store Day 2024 on...
The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen: The Definitive Collection
When I wrote about The Blue Things I expressed my general distaste for cult bands and cult singers. And the reason is because mediocre cult bands cast...
All Hail To The Chairman of the Board - The New IMPEX 1STEP...
First, Some Personal Backstory And Perspective Please be patient with me as I step you through some personal backstory. When IMPEX released the 33 RPM...
Schumann, via AI? (Not.)
Schumann Symphony 4 (orig. vers.); Manfred Overture. Yun: Cello Concerto. Jaemin Han, cello; Korean National Symphony Orchestra/David Reiland. Decca...
Impex Records' Newest Limited Edition 1STEP 45 rpm LP Release:...
Four years ago, Impex Records contracted a pair of Grammy award-winning engineers and tasked them with reviving the original analog tapes for Frank...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
ZYX R100H Cartridge
This article by Bob Levi originally ran in Positive Feedback ISSUE 15 September/October 2004, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
PrimaLuna EVO 100 Tube Phono Preamplifier
Der neue EVO 100 Tube Phono Preamplifier von PrimaLuna gehört zur Premium-Baureihe „Evolution“ des Herstellers und wartet mit einer Reihe.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Krakow Society Meeting 148 - Siltech Master Crown
The Dutch company Siltech is one of the leading manufacturers of audio cables. For years, with its Triple Crown series, along with a handful of other...
Acoustic Revive USB-1.0PL Triple-C and RUT-1K USB Cable Filter
Acoustic Revive is a Japanese company founded in 1997 and led by Mr. Ken Ishiguro. It specializes in interconnect cables, anti-vibration products, but...
Krakow Sonic Society 145 - Polish Recordings on SACD
On September 29th Warner Music Poland released five Czeslaw Niemen albums on SACD hybrid discs. This was the first part of a Series of "Polskie...
Design in Audio. Or Once More About the Language
Design is both the idea, the pattern, the design just poured by it onto paper or on a computer screen, and the materialized effect of designer's work....
Show Reports
AES 2024 Show Report
The Audio Engineering Society show has been going on for many, many years, and for a long time was the only audio engineering show in the world....
The 2024 AES Show
This show report by Frank Doris, a Senior Editor for Positive Feedback, and Editor of PS Audio's Copper Magazine, is republished from Copper. The 2024...
Toronto Audio Fest 2024
Toronto Audio Fest Show Report, Friday, 18 October - Sunday 20 October 2024 Encouraging an audiophile with a cabling and equipment addiction to attend...
Lone Star Audio Fest 2024
Our tribe of dedicated audiophiles and music lovers met up in Dallas Texas the weekend of June 7-9 for the seventeenth Lone Star Audio Fest. LSAF is...
