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2015 Recommended Components
Stereophile Staff  |  Mar 21, 2015  |  9 comments
Components listed here have been formally reviewed in Stereophile and have been found to be among the best available in each of four or five quality classes. Whether a component is listed in Class A or Class E, we highly recommend its purchase.

Each listing-in alphabetical order within classes-is followed by a brief description of the product's sonic characteristics and a code indicating the Stereophile Volume and Issue in which that product's report appeared. Thus the May 2014 issue is indicated as "Vol.37 No.5."

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2014 Recommended Components Fall Edition
Stereophile Staff  |  Sep 18, 2014  |  26 comments
Components listed here have been formally reviewed in Stereophile and have been found to be among the best available in each of four or five quality classes. Whether a component is listed in Class A or Class E, we highly recommend its purchase.

Each listing—in alphabetical order within classes—is followed by a brief description of the product's sonic characteristics and a code indicating the Stereophile Volume and Issue in which that product's report appeared. Thus the May 2014 issue is indicated as "Vol.37 No.5."

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Recommended Components: the Stars
Larry Archibald  |  Jun 17, 2014  |  First Published: Oct 01, 1989  |  5 comments
Though it's Stereophile's most popular single feature, "Recommended Components" has many problems. The biggest is that you readers use it—but then, if I didn't want that, why would we publish it? More accurately, problems come from uncritical use, as if only products that "make" "Recommended Components" are worth buying. Alternatively, it's concluded that products which drop out have somehow been consigned to an outer darkness.
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2014 Recommended Components
Stereophile Staff  |  Mar 24, 2014  |  29 comments
Components listed here have been formally reviewed in Stereophile and have been found to be among the best available in each of four or five quality classes. Whether a component is listed in Class A or Class E, we highly recommend its purchase.

Each listing-in alphabetical order within classes-is followed by a brief description of the product's sonic characteristics and a code indicating the Stereophile Volume and Issue in which that product's report appeared. Thus the September 2013 issue is indicated as "Vol.36 No.9."

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2013 Recommended Components
Stereophile Staff  |  Jul 18, 2013  |  16 comments

Components listed here have been formally reviewed in Stereophile and have been found to be among the best available in each of four or five quality classes. Whether a component is listed in Class A or Class E, we highly recommend its purchase.

Each listing—in alphabetical order within classes—is followed by a brief description of the product's sonic characteristics and a code indicating the Stereophile Volume and Issue in which that product's report appeared. Thus the September 2012 issue is indicated as "Vol.35 No.9."

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Stereophile 2013 Recommended Components iPad App Now Available for Free Download
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 12, 2013  |  10 comments
Stereophile is pleased to announce the availability of the free 2013 Recommended Components iPad app.

This is not an update of our previous app but a completely new app. Products listed in Recommended Components change from year to year, so we are creating a new app annually so readers can collect both new and past rankings.

Available Now
The app is available right now for free download to your iPad in the iTunes store. In iTunes, search for "Stereophile Recommended Components" or follow this link to the iTunes store from your web browser.

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HistoricalJ. Gordon HoltRecommended Components
Recommended Components #1
J. Gordon Holt  |  Dec 17, 2012  |  First Published: May 01, 1963  |  6 comments
[Note - this article is from the May, 1963 issue of Stereophile]

Many readers have asked why we don't maintain a permanent listing in each issue of The Stereophile of those components that we feel to be the best available, with or without qualification.

So, we are following our readers' suggestion, and will list in each issue groups of components which, at publication time, we feel are ones from which our readers would be well advised to assemble their systems. The list will change from time to time, as new products appear, old ones are obsoleted, or manufacturers change their quality control standards. Components will be added to or dropped from the list without advance notice if we see adequate reason for doing so, but each change in the list will be explained in the magazine at the time the change is made.

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2012 Recommended Components
Stereophile Staff  |  Jul 03, 2012  |  18 comments
Components listed here have been formally reviewed in Stereophile and have been found to be among the best available in each of four or five quality classes. Whether a component is listed in Class A or Class E, we highly recommend its purchase.

Each listing—in alphabetical order within classes—is followed by a brief description of the product’s sonic characteristics and a code indicating the Stereophile Volume and Issue in which that product’s report appeared. Thus the September 2010 issue is indicated as “Vol.33 No.9.”

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FeaturesRecommended Components
Recommended Components Addendum
 |  Mar 24, 2009  |  First Published: Apr 24, 2009  |  1 comments
Phono Accessories & Record Cleaners
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As We See ItRecommended Components
Recommended Components: Really Recommended
John Atkinson  |  Dec 10, 2007  |  First Published: Apr 01, 1994  |  0 comments
The very first "Recommended Components" listing appeared in Vol.1 No.5; this is the 16th time I've put the listing together since I took over the task from J. Gordon Holt in the November 1986 'phile. No other Stereophile feature seems to be as popular, or as misunderstood. While it might inform, it never fails to offend, particularly when it involves the dropping, or—horrors!—the not listing at all, of components that the magazine's readers own.
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FeaturesRecommended Components
Recommended Components Addendum
Stereophile Staff  |  Sep 07, 2007  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2007  |  0 comments
Phono Accessories & Record Cleaners
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FeaturesRecommended Components
Recommended Components Addendum
Stereophile Staff  |  Mar 17, 2007  |  First Published: Apr 17, 2007  |  0 comments
Recommended Components Addendum
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Recommended Components Addendum
Stereophile Staff  |  Apr 01, 2006  |  First Published: Apr 12, 2006  |  0 comments
Loudspeaker Cables & Interconnects
Editor's Note: Rather than place cables in the usual "Recommended Components" classes, we've just listed those cables that members of the magazine's review team either have chosen to use on a long-term basis or have found to offer good value for money. They are therefore implicitly recommended. Where a cable has been found to have specific matching requirements or an identifiable sonic signature, it is noted in the text. "Try before you buy" is mandatory with cables; many dealers have a loaner stock to make this easier.
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FeaturesRecommended Components
Recommended Components Addendum
Stereophile Staff  |  Mar 16, 2005  |  First Published: Apr 16, 2005  |  0 comments
FM Antennae
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As We See ItRecommended Components
Recommended Components: If It Works, Don't Change It
John Atkinson  |  Mar 14, 2004  |  First Published: Oct 01, 1998  |  0 comments
"There, that's where you should put the microphone, 5' from the end of my bow."
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