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Both Sides Now
Stereophile

Both Sides Now

An Interview With Record Producer Joe Harley, of Audioquest and Music Matters Jazz 

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January 2017
Master Quality Authenticated
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Master Quality Authenticated

MQA’s Spencer Chrislu on reaching out to the Record Industry.

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7 mins  |
September 2016
Analog Corner - Notes From The Road
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Analog Corner - Notes From The Road

At audio events held by the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society, I’m usually called on to speechify about one thing or another, or to roast an honoree at one of the Society’s December Galas.1 But at last spring’s Los Angeles Audio Show,2 Bob Levi, the Society’s president, quipped, “This is one awards dinner where you won’t have to entertain—so relax and enjoy!”

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September 2017
Listening - Shindo Redux
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Listening - Shindo Redux

As with the older Monbrison and Masseto alike, the line stage of the new Monbrison is based on a stereo pair of triode-pentode tubes—in this case, the Telefunken ECL 94S, used in the previous Monbrison.

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September 2017
Mytek Hifi Manhattan II
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Mytek Hifi Manhattan II

D/A Preamplifier-Headphone Amplifier

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10+ mins  |
September 2017
aural robert
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aural robert

blues at 45

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4 mins  |
november 2016
Inside CH Precision's P1 Phono Preamplifier
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Inside CH Precision's P1 Phono Preamplifier

Although Swiss-based CH Precision is a relatively young company, its core design team has been involved in high-performance audio for many years.

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April 2017
A New Epoch!
Stereophile

A New Epoch!

Brooklyn-based Grado Labs has been in business for 64 years, manufacturing moving-iron phono cartridges, headphones, and, for a while, even a unipivot tonearm with a wooden arm wand, as well as the sophisticated, S-shaped Signature Laboratory Standard arm.

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December 2017
Collecting and The Cloud
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Collecting and The Cloud

I’ll inch out on a limb here and say that most audiophiles are also collectors of recordings.

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4 mins  |
December 2017
Follow-Up
Stereophile

Follow-Up

PEACHTREE AUDIO NOVA300 DAC–INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER Come back, baby. You’ll find a million poems deep in your destitute soul. —Richard Hugo, “Second Chances”

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6 mins  |
December 2017
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Again!)
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Again!)

New Audiophile Reissues Burnish a Proud Legacy.

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10+ mins  |
June 2017
Listening
Stereophile

Listening

There was a fight. And when the fight took a turn for the worse and things began being broken and thrown, it was time to leave. Not later. Not soon. Now.

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June 2017
Gramophone Dreams
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Gramophone Dreams

As much as I delight in pagan dreams of sweetly perfumed garden nymphs, I’m embarrassed to admit that my mind also drifts in pleasant reveries whenever I hear the words research and development in the same sentence.

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June 2017
All Things To All Musicians
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All Things To All Musicians

An Artistic Incubator Grows In Brooklyn

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9 mins  |
May 2018
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER
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Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER

Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER

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May 2018