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Both Sides Now
An Interview With Record Producer Joe Harley, of Audioquest and Music Matters Jazz
Master Quality Authenticated
MQA’s Spencer Chrislu on reaching out to the Record Industry.
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!”
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.
Mytek Hifi Manhattan II
D/A Preamplifier-Headphone Amplifier
aural robert
blues at 45
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.
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.
Collecting and The Cloud
I’ll inch out on a limb here and say that most audiophiles are also collectors of recordings.
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”
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Again!)
New Audiophile Reissues Burnish a Proud Legacy.
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.
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.
All Things To All Musicians
An Artistic Incubator Grows In Brooklyn
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 LOUDSPEAKER