Audio Skies Michael Vamos - YG Acoustics, JMF Audio, Ideon at Capital Audiofest 2025

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Fidelity Imports Audia Flight and Perlisten System

Fidelity Imports Wilson Benesch and Audia Flight System at Capital Audiofest 2025

J Sikora Aspire, Innuos Stream 3, Aurender N50, Gryphon Antileon Revelation, Command Performance AV

Bella Sound Kalalau Preamplifier: Interview with Mike Vice

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Kevin Hayes of VAC at Capital Audiofest 2025

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Capital Audiofest 2025 lobby marketplace walk through day one

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Capital Audiofest 2025 Gary Gill interview

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Integrated Amp Reviews Media Server Reviews

Cambridge Audio EVO 150 streaming integrated amplifier

Robert Schryer Sep 21, 2021

In 1968, I was a 2-year-old toddler living in Paris, Francemy birthplaceon the 14th floor of a diplomat-occupied apartment complex overlooking the Seine. My dad, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was stationed in Paris, working security at the Canadian embassy. My mom and I were there with him.

Recommended Components

Recommended Components Fall 2021 Edition

Stereophile Staff Sep 16, 2021

Every product listed here has been reviewed in Stereophile. Everything on the list, regardless of rating, is genuinely recommendable.

Within each category, products are listed by class; within each class, they're in alphabetical order, followed by their price, a review synopsis, and a note indicating the issues in which the review, and any subsequent follow-up reports, appeared. "Vol.44 No.9" indicates our September 2021 issue, for example. "WWW" means the review is also posted online.

Revinylization

Revinylization #22: George Harrison's All Things Must Pass

Tom Fine Sep 15, 2021

Capitol/UMe 3565238 (5 CD, 1 Blu-ray). 2021. George Harrison, Phil Spector, Harrison, David Zonshine, prods.; Ken Scott, Philip McDonald, Paul Hicks, engs.
Performance *****
Sonics *****

Six weeks after the world's biggest pop group broke up, the "Quiet Beatle" began work on a monumental three-LP album that stands tall a half-century later. George Harrison's first solo album (his third if you count a movie soundtrack and an experimental-music record) is a masterpiece, a musical minestrone of influences and timestamps. For the artist, it was a sprawling release of creative energy too often pent up in the context of the Beatles.

As We See It

The new aether

Jim Austin Sep 14, 2021

When I decided that Stereophile should review the McIntosh MAC7200 receiver (see the review in the January 2021 issue), I had several reasons for doing so. First, McIntosh is known for the quality of its radio tuners and amplifiers, so I was confident it would be an impressive product. (It was.) Second, a review of a terrestrial radio receiver in 2021 had a certain retro appeal that I thought Stereophile readers might appreciate. Third, as Larry Greenhill wrote in the introduction to that review, I like terrestrial radio.

Music and Recording Reviews

September 2021 Classical Record Reviews

Jason Victor Serinus, Stephen Francis Vasta Sep 10, 2021

Kansas City Symphony/Michael Stern One-Movement Symphonies, Sebastian Fagerlund: Nomade Water Atlas and Andrew Von Oeyen: Bach Beethoven.

Music and Recording Reviews

September 2021 Jazz Record Reviews

Thomas Conrad, Kurt Gottschalk, Fred Kaplan Sep 10, 2021

Alice Coltrane: Kirtan: Turiya Sings, James Brandon Lewis/Red Lily Quintet: Jesup Wagon, William Parker: Painters Winter and Todd Cochran TC3: Then and Again, Here and Now.

Music and Recording Reviews

September 2021 Rock/Pop Record Reviews

Kurt Gottschalk, Anne E. Johnson Sep 10, 2021

David Bowie: The Width of a Circle, Japanese Breakfast: Jubilee, The Chills: Scatterbrain and Juliana Hatfield: Blood.

Music and Recording Features

Leslie Ann Jones: Recording's Future Now

Jason Victor Serinus Sep 09, 2021

As she moves quietly across the huge scoring stage at Skywalker Studios toward the large, comfortable control room that sits behind glass, it's obvious that Leslie Ann Jones is in charge. She wears no badge that proclaims her authority, although her professional title is impressive: "Director of Music and Scoring, Music and Scoring Recording Engineer and Mixer".

My Back Pages

My journey to hi-fi

Rogier van Bakel Sep 08, 2021

Step 1. When I was in my mid-20s, an older editor at the Dutch current-affairs magazine I worked for told me he wanted to write a piece about audiophiles: He had been bitten by the audio bug himself. Because I often wrote about rock and pop music, he asked if I had a quality hi-fi system, and if so, would I be willing to be interviewed for his article

Phono Cartridge Reviews

Ortofon MC Century phono cartridge

Michael Fremer Sep 07, 2021

A few years ago, Leif Johannsen, Ortofon's chief officer of acoustics and technology, was tasked with designing new products to commemorate the company's 100th anniversary, in 2018 (footnote 1). Ten years ago, to celebrate Ortofon's 90th, he came up with the radical A90 moving-coil cartridge, which used Selective Laser Melt (SLM) technology to laser-weld together microparticles of stainless steel, layer by layer, to produce a 3D-printed metal body whose shape would have been impossible to machine.