November - December 2016
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Audio Discourse
Roon Headless on a NAS with the microRendu: Initial Forays
Anyone who might have read any of my recent babblings here is probably aware that I'm in the process of building a new house that will have a large-ish...
True Tales from the Dungeon, Part 2
When this journey/adventure/ordeal started in June, I never imagined in a million years that we'd still be here in the Dungeon in mid-December. To...
Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2016, Part The Second
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...
Christmas Music Part 3: "A String Quartet Christmas"
Finally, the third and last of John Marks' Christmas recommendations for us. Delmoni... a String Quartet Christmas...a real treasure to us all. Thanks...
Christmas Music Part 2: "Carols of the Nativity"
Herein, John Marks Christmas Music 2: "Carols of the Nativity". Thanks to John for these musical gifts during this holiday season! Dr. David W....
Christmas Music Part 1: Nat King Cole, "Christmas Favorites"
'Tis the season! John Marks leads us into Christmas time with a trio of short essays on three different artists and albums, together with samples from...
Hardware Reviews
Graham Slee Accession Phono Stage
The humble phono stage is the unsung hero in most analog systems, yet many hobbyists overlook its importance and often allow it to become a bottleneck....
Esoteric K-01X SACD/CD Player
The Esoteric K-01X SACD/CD Player It has been an interesting couple of years while ramping up on my knowledge and experience with computer audio and...
Sophia Electric Coke Bottle KT88-ST Tubes
Since the modification to my solid-state Reference Marantz integrated amplifier more than a few years ago, my tube amplifiers have been gathering dust....
Notes on the van den Hul 3T The Rock Hybrid Interconnects
van den Hul 3T Rock Interconnects I have been most curious about Van den Hul interconnects as they have a sterling reputation, but a lesser following...
Redefining Neutrality - The Stealthy Silnote Audio Orion-M1...
For several months, the superb Silnote Audio Orion-M1 Master Reference XLR interconnects have anchored my reference system. The time spent testing...
Auralic Altair Wireless Streaming DAC
For the second time this year, I've had the good fortune to report on an exciting new digital product. This time it is Auralic's latest digital to...
Interviews
The Editors Series - Edgar Kramer of Audio Esoterica
The audio domain is a field which combines a few spheres of human activity, i.e. music, the art of recording and reproducing it. The most important...
Music Reviews
Nessun Dorma: The Puccini Album
Nessun Dorma: The Puccini Album It's happened again. I'd read several years' worth of pro-and-con about Ian Bostridge before hearing the fellow, on a...
John Marks on the Music: The Emerson Quartet, 'The Art of the...
Who can gainsay Bach? Like Mozart or Beethoven, he is a towering figure. I don't know exactly how many recordings that I have of The Art of the Fugue...
Miles + MoFi = Magic
Miles Davis - Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky, and Filles de Kilimanjaro How time flies! Twenty five years almost to the day after Miles Davis passed...
Marc Phillips on the Music: CIKADA & Oslo Sinfonietta,...
CIKADA & Oslo Sinfonietta: Maja S. K. Ratkje's And sing… (2L Recordings 2L-124-SABD, available in various formats at...
Guest Record Review: Analogue Productions 'Johnny Hartman: ...
Johnny Hartman - Once In Every Life Reissued by Analogue Productions APJ 105 originally released in 1981 by Bee Hive Records BH 7012 A very difficult...
John Marks on the Music: Michael Franks, 'Sleeping Gypsy'
I've been on the road for nearly three weeks now, and that's meant an interruption to the republication of John Marks' fine contributions to the...
New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print
Simaudio Celeste P-5003 Preamplifier
This article, by Carol Clark, Victor Chavira, Larry Cox, and Larry Fisher, originally ran when audioMusings was in print - Issue 9, 1999. When was the...
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Rogoz Audio 5SMX12/BBS Anti-vibration Audio Rack
This is probably not the first and neither the last time you shall read a similar introduction to the review of this type of product from Rogoz Audio....
Acuhorn 15 Loudspeakers
Wojtek Unterschuetz rarely shares information on a new product in Acuhorn's range, but when he does he always has something truly interesting to offer....
totaldac d1-single-mk2 Digital to Analog Converter
Language is a very imprecise tool. But also thanks to it the evolution of apes resulted in an Aristotle, Michelangelo and Fangor. Still, however, we...
The Editors Series - Edgar Kramer of Audio Esoterica
The audio domain is a field which combines a few spheres of human activity, i.e. music, the art of recording and reproducing it. The most important...
Show Reports
TAVES 2016
TAVES has been growing exponentially over the past couple of years. In fact last year, it had a growth spurt that would send any teenagers with NBA...
Discoveries at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016
October has arrived and for many audio fans on the West Coast that means it's time for the annual Rocky Mountain Audio Fest also known as RMAF. This...
AES 2016 Awards
Best Product in Show Okay, I didn't actually see it in the show, only afterward, but it was in there somewhere. Kenetek is making a direct replacement...
AES 2016 Los Angeles
The Audio Engineering Society puts on a convention in the US every year, and what makes it most interesting is that traditionally it has been both a...
