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LATEST ADDITIONS

Gramophone Dreams #19: HiFi Man Susvara headphones

Herb Reichert Nov 28, 2017

I spend my days comparing cartridges and speaker stands, arguing about imaging and microphone placement, speculating about DAC filters, and lately, sometimes, very secretly listening to headphones connected not to commercially available headphone amplifiers but directly to the outputs of basic tubed and solid-state power amplifiers. No person in his right mind would or should try thisit's too easy to destroy a pair of delicate, expensive headphones. But for me, it's been worth the risk.

Robert Baird

Jersey Boys

Robert Baird Nov 27, 2017

Finally, a Replacements Live Album!

Katz's Corner InnerFidelity

Katz's Corner Episode 20: How Insensitive!

Bob Katz Nov 27, 2017

This story originally appeared at InnerFidelity.com

These specifications confuse consumers, who would be forced to use logarithms and equations to answer the basic questions. We need to make headphone sensitivity and amplifier level specs more user-friendly, useable, interchangeable and effective. So I think it's high time to ditch both sensitivity approaches, and we can do better than both Sennheiser and the IEC if we start thinking outside the box!

Jason Victor Serinus

Brahms Piano Trios from Ma, Ax, and Kavakos

Jason Victor Serinus Nov 26, 2017

Overflowing with heart, Brahms' three Trios for violin, cello, and piano are amongst the most venerated chamber works in the literature. Completed over a span of 35 years, they reveal Brahms forever true to his love and longing. Again and again it surfaces, expressed through an irrepressible love for melody, Hungarian and gypsy sentiments, romance and drama that sings and sighs at its most vulnerable in this special, two-disc Sony recording of the Brahms Piano Trios from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, and violinist Leonidas Kavakos.

Robert Baird

Tommy Keene 1958–2017

Robert Baird Nov 24, 2017

Indie Rock Guitar Hero Dead at 59.

Fred Kaplan

Maria Schneider's Jazz Orchestra: Thanksgiving Week at the Jazz Standard

Fred Kaplan Nov 23, 2017

For 13 years now, Maria Schneider and her Jazz Orchestra have played Thanksgiving week at the Jazz Standard in New York City, and, judging from the late set on Tuesday, they just keep getting better and better.

NY Audio Show 2017

Our Final Binaural Video Report from the NYAS

Jana Dagdagan Nov 22, 2017

Here's our final report from the New York Audio Show. Thank you to everyone who watched our previous videos, all of which featured Herb Reichert (left above in JA's photo) and gave us feedbackpositive and otherwise. We started making these videos as a response to feedback, and will continue monitoring feedback to help improve our future videos.

Solid State Power Amp Reviews

Pass Laboratories XA60.8 monoblock power amplifier

Jim Austin Nov 22, 2017

Years ago, when I was young and foolish (instead of old and foolish, as now), I was hanging out with a friend at a strip-mall strip club in a small southeastern city. A youngish lady approached our table in G-string and pasties and did a tableside dance. My friend's jaw scraped the floor; I, noting her lack of enthusiasm, was unmoved. The stripper noted my impassivity and stated, with irony that at the time I somehow missed, "You're a hard man."

John Atkinson, too, is a hard man, at least when it comes to audio gear. When, in January 2014, he reviewed the Pass Laboratories XA60.5 monoblock amplifier, he concluded, "It is the best-sounding amplifier I have ever used." High praise.

NY Audio Show 2017

Day 2 at the NYAS: a Binaural Video Report

Jana Dagdagan Nov 22, 2017

Captured in the corridor: Music Hall's Roy Hall (left) tells Herb Reichert about a system tweak that always results in better sound.

Here’s our second (of three) video show reports from the New York Audio Show that took place earlier this month at Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel.

Phono Preamp Reviews

Heed Audio Quasar phono preamplifier

Ken Micallef Nov 21, 2017

As a kid growing up in Milford, Michigan, my big brother always had the classiest clothes, latest records, and sharpest gear. He danced in Cuban-heeled leather boots, I climbed trees in lace-up Keds. He spun Rolling Stones vinyl on a fabric-wrapped Zenith portable with detachable speakers, I blasted the Beatles from a tinny transistor radio. Ten years my senior, big bro drove a Buick bomb (which, late one night, mysteriously caught fire in the garage) and had a girlfriend, Gail, whose plump cheeks and smart clothes embodied modern mid-century Midwestern appeal. I like to think that my brother and I have both aged gracefully. And lately, he's taken to high-end hi-fi with a passion.