Where Measurements and Performance Meet featuring Andrew Jones

Electrocompaniet + Ø Audio at High End Munich 2025

LATEST ADDITIONS

Gramophone Dreams #99: Schiit Audio Stjarna phono preamplifier

Herb Reichert Aug 06, 2025

I'd been building and repairing tube amplifiers for a few years when my first Altec A5 Voice of the Theater speakers arrived. I bought them to help me evaluate the sound of low-powered triode amps—but whoa! The moment I turned that VOT system on, I heard from 30' away the sound of either a waterfall or a large AM radio tuned between stations . . . What's the best tube tester? A 107dB/watt speaker!

Revinylization

Revinylization #67: Rollin' with Leo Parker, a New Tone Poet Reissue

Robert Baird Aug 05, 2025

Rollin' With Leo is a treasure from bebop's past that's been reissued several times on CD and LP since 1980. This new version, with its freshened sound, proves again that Dexter Gordon's concise appraisal of Leo Parker was on the mark: "The Kid could play. Lots of bottoms."

News

Joy and Resistance in Manhattan

Ken Micallef Aug 03, 2025

This past Monday, July 21, drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington and harpist/composer Brandee Younger discussed their recently released albums, respectively We Insist 2025! (Candid) and Gadabout Season (Verve) at an event billed as Joy and Resistance, moderated by Dr. Guthrie Ramsey. The Doris Duke Center in New York City hosted the event, with a streaming audio system featuring Treble Clef Audio's TCA-M active floorstanding loudspeakers.

Budget Component Reviews Solid State Power Amp Reviews

Eversolo AMP-F10 power amplifier

Tom Fine Aug 01, 2025

A century ago, pioneering psychiatrist Carl Jung had a wild encounter with the power of sound. "In a village on the way from Lake Albert to Rejaf in the Sudan we had a very exciting experience," Jung wrote in his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections. He goes on to describe his participation in a tribal drum and dance ritual. "Night had fallen ... when we heard drums and horn blasts. Soon some sixty men appeared, martially equipped with flashing lances, clubs, and swords."

Digital Processor Reviews

Weiss DAC204 D/A processor

Robert Schryer Jul 31, 2025

Weiss Engineering D/A processors are widely known for their high quality, in both home-audio and pro-audio circles. Over several Stereophile reviews, they have always measured well. Oh, and did you know they'd won a Grammy Award? Weiss Engineering founder and chief designer Daniel Weiss won the 2021 Grammy Award for Technical Merit for his pioneering work during the '80s and '90s designing digital equipment for mastering studios.

New Products News

Onkyo Adds C-30 CD Player to Icon Series

Mark Henninger Jul 31, 2025

Onkyo has introduced the C-30 CD player, the latest addition to its Icon Series of hi-fi components. The player features Onkyo’s proprietary Vector Linear Shaping Circuit (VLSC), designed to remove pulse noise from the signal path.

Room Treatment Reviews

PSI Audio AVAA C214 active bass trap

Kalman Rubinson Jul 30, 2025

Ever since I became interested in—nay, obsessed with—high-quality music reproduction, my goal has been to attain the experience of being at a performance. Some audiophiles target the recreation of the event in their room—a "they are here" experience.

News

Klipsch to Show Red Oak Finish, Demo Active Crossover at Audio Advice Live

Mark Henninger Jul 29, 2025

Klipsch willl introduce a Red Oak finish option for its Heritage Forte IV and Heresy IV loudspeakers at Audio Advice Live 2025. The finish, paired with gray heathered grilles, marks its first public appearance.

Aural Robert

Bruce Springsteen's Later-Career Back Catalog

Robert Baird Jul 29, 2025

Photo by Danny Clinch

Seeing Bruce Springsteen perform live in the 1970s and early '80s, pre–Born in the U.S.A., could be a life-changing experience. Bruce was the hungry leader of a relentless, turn-on-a-dime R&B band. A burning star streaking across the rock'n'roll sky, he threw his fiery young self into maximum shows full of urgency (to invoke one of his best rhymes) and those wordy, anthemic pleading/strutting urban fairy tales. He was leagues beyond almost everything and everyone else in those days.

Munich 2025 Spin Doctor

Spin Doctor #27: Michael's Magical Mystery Tour

Michael Trei Jul 28, 2025

Innuos's Nuno Vitorino introduces the new Nazaré streamer-server. (Photos by Michael Trei.)

It was supposed to be so simple, a well-trod path I've followed almost every May for the last decade: A six-day trip to Munich to attend the final Munich High End Show before it decamps to Vienna next year.