With Quad's reworking of Peter Walker's "Wonder," the full-range ESL-2912 electrostatic, featured on its cover. Inside you'll find John Atkinson on Rockport's Avior II loudspeaker; Herb Reichert on an affordable amplifier from Emotiva and cost-no-object headphones from Abyss; Art Dudley on a Bryston's CD player; Michael Fremer on Brinkmann's MQA-capable Nyquist DAC and Ortofon's Windfeld Ti cartridge; and Jim Austin on PS Audio's ultimate monoblock.
The August issue kicks off with Jason Victor Serinus declaring it's time we stopped referring to our shared love for recorded music with high-quality sound as a "hobby," while in the music section our "Recording of the Month" is a superb performance of works for piano by Rachmaninoff and Robert Baird reviews the remixed, remastered Beatles masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper's . . .
The August 2017 Stereophile is on newsstands, in mailboxes, and on tablets now. Check it out.
