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Music and Recording Reviews

May 2025 Jazz Record Reviews

Thomas Conrad, Andrey Henkin May 12, 2025

Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells; Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging; François Couturier and Dominique Pifarély: Preludes and Songs; Noah Preminger: Ballads; Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers.

Music and Recording Reviews

May 2025 Classical Record Reviews

Jason Victor Serinus, Stephen Francis Vasta May 12, 2025

Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin: Electric Fields; John Field: Complete Nocturnes; Mahler: Symphony No.3; Stravinsky: Pulcinella; Le baiser de la féeDivertimento, K.-M. Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Search for Petula Clark.

Music and Recording Reviews

May 2025 Rock/Pop Record Reviews

Robert Baird, Phil Brett, Ray Chelstowski May 12, 2025

Peter Perrett: The Cleansing; The Blasters: Over There: Live at the Venue, London The Complete Concert; Inhaler: Open Wide; Ray Charles: Best of Country & Western; Teddy Swims: I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2).

AXPONA 2025

AXISS Audio Introduces the Accuphase E-3000 Integrated

Jason Victor Serinus May 11, 2025

In front of a passive hallway display in the lobby of the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, Mark Henninger and I caught up with TJ Goldsby, AXISS Audio's vice president of sales and dealer relations, and Takaya Inokuma, senior management director, Accuphase Laboratory. Together, we chatted about the first showing of the brand-new, entry-level Accuphase E-3000 integrated amplifier ($8975). Accuphase's new class-AB integrated outputs 100Wpc into 8 ohms.

AXPONA 2025

The Sicks of Us and the Two of Them: Luxman and Marten Find Show-Stopping Symmetry

Jason Victor Serinus May 10, 2025

“It’s Luxman’s 100th Anniversary,” Stereophile Editor Jim Austin told me in passing. “You’ve got to hear how good the sound is in the Rhythm Distribution room that Luxman shares with Marten and Jorma.”

Florida Audio Expo 2025

Four Systems, One Statement: Scott Walker Audio, Acora, and VAC Deliver With Gear by VPI, Aurender, SonoruS

Ken Micallef May 10, 2025

The Palm Ballroom and adjacent rooms hosted systems from Acora Acoustics, Scott Walker Audio, and VAC—an ambitious collaboration by Valerio Cora, Scott Walker, and Kevin Hayes. The trio presented a range of well-curated systems.

AXPONA 2025

Persistence Pays Off: Audio Research's Best and Sonus faber's Jewels Sound Fabulous with dCS, Clearaudio, DS Audio, Innuos, Kubala-Sosna, and Critical Mass

Jason Victor Serinus May 10, 2025

Persistence Pays Off: Audio Research's Best and Sonus faber's jewels Sound Fabulous with dCS, Clearaudio, DS Audio, Innuos, Kubala-Sosna, and Critical Mass

AXPONA 2025

Audia Flight and Wilson Benesch Pair Up: Utopia or Close Enough

Jason Victor Serinus May 10, 2025

No fewer than five Stereophilers visited Fidelity Imports’ Utopia-D room during AXPONA 2025. I focused on the Audia Flight Strumento No.8 monoblocks ($34,999/each) that had joined forces with Audia Flight’s Strumento No.1 EVO preamplifier ($29,995), an FLS 20 SACD player/streamer ($21,999), and a Flight Phono ($6999).

Gramophone Dreams Phono Cartridge Reviews Stand Loudspeaker Reviews

Gramophone Dreams #96: Falcon 2024 Limited Edition LS3/5a loudspeaker, Lyra Delos phono cartridge

Herb Reichert May 09, 2025

The story goes that starting in 1962, Malcolm Jones was KEF's "first employee," where he "did most of the design and development of the legendary KEF drive unitsthe B139, B200, B110, T15, T27and the systems in which they were incorporated. Malcolm left KEF in 1974, having just completed the Reference Series 104 system and work on an active professional monitor to work full time at Falcon Acoustics Ltd."

Fast-forward a few years. I bought my first BBC LS3/5a in 1980. It was a Falcon Acoustics kit I saw advertised in the back of Speaker Builder magazine. Fingers crossed, I sent a postal money order in a thin Air Mail envelope to what I imagined was a garden shed in England. But of course it wasn't.

AXPONA 2025

Pearl Acoustics: Luster at the End of the Hall

Jason Victor Serinus May 09, 2025

“Do you know where the room with Pearl Acoustics Sibelius loudspeakers is?” That question, which greeted Jim Austin and me as we navigated the stairs, grew increasingly common as AXPONA unfolded.