May - June 2024
Audio Discourse
Impressions: The Pacific Audio Fest 2023, Part the Third &...
Ye Olde Editor with cigar and match, 2021 (photograph and image processing by John Robinson) Here's the last set of my Audio Oasis! Awards from PAF...
Hardware Reviews
IsoAcoustics GAIA III Speaker Isolators
A while back I found myself the new custodian of some excellent prototype speakers. I'd heard the Communique floorstander at several Colorado Audio...
Waters on the Hardware: The Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC
Dean Waters at the Pacific Audio Fest, 2023: a portrait with cigar (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) The Tambaqui from Mola Mola...
SAE HP2-D Amplifier and MK One Preamplifier
Fifty years ago SAE hit the market with its first amplifier, the venerable MK 1. A 60-watt per channel affair that stunned the audio world and received...
Vera-Fi Audio's SnubWay Noise Defender: Taking Your Audio and...
I'm constantly on social media, quite often for audio-related purposes. And I'd seen teasers for months highlighting the ongoing development of Vera-Fi...
Music - SuperSonic Recordings
Top 500 SuperSonic List - Part 39
This is an ongoing project by Claude Lemaire of Soundevaluations 231. André Hodeir, American Jazzmen Play André Hodeir's Essais. Savoy Records –...
Music Reviews
Schubert Quartets
Schubert, Quartets 15, 8. Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA 68423 (CD). TT: 77.48 Schubert's harmonic innovations are broadly recognized. But, as these...
Deep Purple's Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition from Rhino
Deep Purple's Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition (SDE) has just been remixed, remastered, and re-released in a gorgeous new multi-disc edition that...
Reiner's Performance of Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome from...
Turn up the volume and prepare for sumptuous sonics from one of the great performances in the catalog. This new transfer from High Definition Tape...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Adventures at the Far End of Reality
This article by Roger S. Gordon originally ran in Issue 8, August/September 2003, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days...
Our Friends at HIFI Statement
Audio Video Show Warschau 2023 – Teil 3
Das Aufbereiten der auf der Messe gesammelten Eindrücke und Informationen ist zwar zeitintensiv, aber es macht stets Spaß, die Messe noch einmal.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Carbide Audio Carbide Base Anti-Vibration Feet
Carbide Audio is based in the city of Llano located east of Austin, in the mountainous part of Texas. Founded in 2019 by Jeffrey Jenkins, this...
Show Reports
AXPONA 2024: Swan Song Audio's Technorama
Some of the most fun to be had at AXPONA was discovering fresh new ideas and technology. Never have I ever encountered a complete 3D printed horn...
AXPONA 2024: Manley Labs Preaches a Vinyl Gospel
Manley Labs has always kept its feet planted in two lands. Known for keeping the tube faith on the Pro side of audio—their mic preamps and processors...
Impressions: The Pacific Audio Fest 2023, Part the Third &...
Ye Olde Editor with cigar and match, 2021 (photograph and image processing by John Robinson) Here's the last set of my Audio Oasis! Awards from PAF...
