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A gift at war (for Veterans Day)
In March 2003, as news networks broadcast images of American tanks racing north toward Baghdad, my infantry platoon dug shallow foxholes in south-ern Iraq. We were part of a defensive perimeter guarding FARP Exxon, a helicopter refueling point for the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
Musical Fidelity M8xi
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
Polk Audio Legend L100
LOUDSPEAKER
NAD Masters Series M33
STREAMING INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
Göbel High End Divin Marquis
LOUDSPEAKER
REVINYLIZATION
Bill Evans’s best late album
RE-TALES
George Vatchnadze’s newest gig
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
WITH DATA LORDS, MARIA SCHNEIDER MAKES A STATEMENT ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD AND SOCIETY.
Naim Mu-so 2nd Generation
ALL-IN-ONE MUSIC SYSTEM
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
Communing with immortals “Future generations will be able to condense into the brief space of twenty minutes the tone pictures of a lifetime—five minutes of childish prattle, five moments embalming the last feeble utterances from the death-bed. Will this not seem like holding veritable communion with immortality?” —BERLINER GRAMOPHONE COMPANY CA. 18771
ANALOG CORNER
25 years and counting
Analog Corner
Some cartridges and analog accessories
Analog Corner
Insiders views on everything vinyl
GoldenEar BRX
LOUDSPEAKER
“What's Going On”
MY BACK PAGES
CLASSICAL ROCK / POP JAZZ- RECORD REVIEWS
Editor's Pick
What Am I Worth
REVINYLIZATION
Yamaha A-S3200 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
Yamaha: The name evokes memories of my youth when those much-coveted receivers were out of financial reach, leading me to rely upon entry-level Kenwoods and Pioneers and others that sounded worse.
THE TIME IS NOW
ON HIS NEW ALBUM HERO TRIO, RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA COMES FULL CIRCLE
HERB REICHERT-LKV Veros PWR+
POWER AMPLIFIER
Andover Model-One
TURNTABLE MUSIC SYSTEM
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
No one knows where the ladder goes
Classé Delta Mono
Monoblock Power Amplifier
Volti Audio Razz
LOUDSPEAKER
REVINYLIZATION
Better git this in your soul
MY BACK PAGES
Get what you need
Weiss Engineering DAC502 D/A PROCESSOR
Hi-fi system resolution has long been the cause of heated arguments. But when it comes to converting digital data to an analog signal, there can be no argument.
Piega Premium Wireless 701
WIRELESS LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM
JL Audio Fathom f110v2
POWERED SUBWOOFER
JAMES TAYLOR AN AMERICAN STANDARD
ON ICONIC SINGER-SONGWRITER JAMES TAYLOR’S 20TH ALBUM, AMERICAN STANDARD, THE LANKY CROONER ADAPTS THE CLASSIC AMERICAN SONGBOOK TO HIS EASY-ROLLING MUSICAL WAYS. THE RESULT IS AN AMERICAN MIXTURE OF TIMELESS SONGCRAFT.