... doesn't resonate, on any level.
Soundsmith
The Soundsmith room featured a hot and clean vinyl sound as played back with the Hyperion cartridge ($7500), which uses a cactus spine cantilever, routed to their affordable MCP2 phono preamp ($699), reviewed by Michael Fremer in our October 2011 issue and March 2012 issue. Pricing on the Hyperion includes a 10 year warranty and re-tipping. Playback came out of Soundsmith’s potent Dragonfly speakers ($2,000). While I certainly heard enough Stevie Ray Vaughan at this audio show to make me wish I had crashed that helicopter myself, the blues master’s slides exhibited a natural attack and decay that brought the man and his dirty Stratocaster to that very room in the Waldorf, a more than welcome revival.
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I'm not an SRV fan
Submitted by limahuli on April 19, 2012 - 9:26pm
...but wasn't it possible for the author to make his point without the tasteless insult about Vaughan's death? Cheap and lame; someone didn't get hugged enough in his formative years, to be sure.

yeah, real "irreverent"
Submitted by limahuli on April 20, 2012 - 12:22pm
This kind of stuff was moderately amusing in zines during the early 90s but now it just looks dumb and desperate.

Missed your calling
Submitted by Ricketysmurf on March 10, 2013 - 9:16am
Journalism's not for you, inane comments.