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Tube Power Amp Reviews

Air Tight ATM-1 2024 Edition power amplifier

Ken Micallef Dec 04, 2024

Closing his review of the AirTight ATM-1S amplifier in the November 2014 Stereophile, Art Dudley wrote, "The AirTight ATM-1S is right up there with the best I've heard: the artisanal, the small, the artistically sensitive, the colorful and characterful, the smart. The AirTight is as serious an EL34 amplifier as I've heard, offering texture, color, poise, musical drive, and rightness, all in good proportion to one another. It also looks nice and represents at least decent if not outrageously good value for the money."

Art's ATM-1S was a step in a long succession of tube amplifiers produced by AirTight since its 1986 founding. First came the original ATM-1; AirTight has also produced the ATM-2 (which used KT88 tubes), the ATM-4 (6L6GCs), the 1S that Art reviewed (EL34s; the S stood for "special"), the ATM-2 Plus, and now the ATM-1 2024 Edition ($14,975).

Capital AudioFest 2024

Well Pleased AV/Alma Music & Audio: QLN, Qualiton, Merason, Innuos, Kubala Sosna, GigaWatt, Finite Elemente, AB-Tech

Ken Micallef Dec 04, 2024

Mark Sossa, the best-dressed and best-mannered exhibitor at CAF 2024, under the banner of Well Pleased AV, had new gear to play for me and I was all ears.

Capital AudioFest 2024

High Water Sound: Cessaro, Zeiler Audio, TW-Acustic, Dalby Audio Design, Codia Acoustic Design, Silent Running Audio, Stein Music

Ken Micallef Dec 04, 2024

Even if audio isn’t your thing, I always advise everyone within earshot to visit Jeffrey Catalano’s hi-fi rooms, the world over. ‘Cause more than a smart-witted audiophile, Jeffrey is a seasoned musician and experienced listener, his vinyl collection spreading to the many thousands. This man has serious taste in music, an influencer, you might say, of the highest degree.

Phono Accessory Reviews Phono Cartridge Reviews Spin Doctor

Spin Doctor #19: An exotic Audio-Technica cartridge and a Vivid flagship speaker

Michael Trei Dec 04, 2024

I think of Audio-Technica as the maker of some of the best high-value cartridges out there. From the ubiquitous AT3600L, which can be had for a little more than a Big Mac meal at McDonald's, to the popular OC9 moving coil series, A-T's cartridges have long been easy-to-recommend options that deliver great sound mounted on just about any turntable.

But occasionally, Audio-Technica likes to show off its technological chops by launching a cartridge that breaks new ground. Last year, they celebrated their 60th anniversary by stunning everyone with the AT-MC2022, which uses an outrageous integrated stylus and cantilever fashioned from a single piece of lab-grown diamond. In 2016, they flexed their capabilities with the AT-ART1000, which completely reconfigured how the elements of a moving coil cartridge are arranged, with spectacular results.

Now, eight years after the AT-ART1000 was launched, A-T has introduced the AT-ART1000x, which incorporates several small but important improvements.

Capital AudioFest 2024

Now Listen Here: Vandersteen, Acora, Pure Fidelity, EMM Labs, Bel Canto Design, Innuos, Ayre, Rega, Audio-Technica, AudioQuest, Finley Audio

Ken Micallef Dec 04, 2024

NLH’s Aaron Sherrick was busy, yet oddly calm, as he sat and directed the action in the Executive Lounge. NLH’s Matt Early (an old friend of mine from Tower Records on 66th St. NYC) controlled the iPad, while Qobuz’s David Solomon offered support, emotional and otherwise!

Capital AudioFest 2024

MC Audiotech, Linear Tube Audio, Wolf Servers, ArgentPUR Cables

Ken Micallef Dec 04, 2024

MC Audiotech's Mark Conti, ever the gentleman, even when confronted by a rabid reporter, unveiled a system of such sweet tone and dynamic might that it soothed my inner beast. At

Capital AudioFest 2024

VK Music: Elekit, Sun Valley

Ken Micallef Dec 04, 2024

Gramophone Dreams’ columnist Herb Reichert has written glowing amplifier reviews of Elekit of Fukuoka, Japan, and Sun Valley, of Nagoya, Japan, both distributed by Victor Kung’s VK Music.

At CAF2024 Victor showcased many amplifiers at his CAF booth, most boasting fat tubes and open circuit boards, the kind of which activates my reviewer’s twitch.

Audacious Audio Solid State Power Amp Reviews

Moon 861 stereo/mono power amplifier

Jason Victor Serinus Dec 04, 2024

It is unusual to begin a review with a detailed discussion of setup. But setup protocol for the Moon 861 power amplifier ($22,000 each), the top-level amplifier in the North Collection from Moon, which I reviewed bridged in mono, proved crucial to its sound.

The setup saga began when Moon co-owner Costa Koulisakis traveled to Port Townsend from Quebec to help remove two 861 amplifiers from their sturdy flight cases and set them up.

Warsaw Audio Show 2024

Sisound's Speaker Debut in Warsaw

Jason Victor Serinus Dec 03, 2024

Sisound of Poland's Product Manager Rafal Wofczyński presented the world premiere of his 3-way Sisound Solidus S loudspeaker. The speaker, which is currently available only in Poland, claims a frequency response of 26Hz-20kHz, a 4-ohm nominal impedance that dips to 2.5 ohms or lower in the extended LF setting, and 90dB sensitivity.

Warsaw Audio Show 2024

Audacious Silent Pound of Lithuania

Jason Victor Serinus Dec 03, 2024

Hailing from Lithuania, which lies right across the Northeast border of Poland, one-year-old audacious speaker company Silent Pound made its second consecutive appearance at the Warsaw Show. The company returned to the same large, irregularly shaped room that allowed them to place four listening chairs, one behind the other, in a straight line, midway between the standmount speakers on active display.