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Mark Levinson has traveled from Woodstock to the Whitney, and Michael Fremer lends an ear to his Red Rose Music R3 loudspeaker to determine if the journey was a fruitful one. As Fremer characterizes it, "If Levinson's Cello foray was haute monde, Red Rose is Dockers: loose-fitting and relaxed."

Next we have Robert Deutsch examining the Wavelength Audio Gemini monoblock power amplifier. Tube designers are a devoted lot, and as Deutsch reports, none is more devoted to the art than Wavelength's Gordon Rankin.

As a bonus this week, we add Kalman Rubinson's May 2001 Follow-up to his March 1999 review of Simaudio's Moon W-5 amplifier. As Rubinson puts it, now that his ears have matured a bit, "this could be an opportunity to re-evaluate my own comments and reactions."