The December issue is here and it features our annual "Products of the Year" (cutely referred to as "PotY" in-house). 67 products made it through to the final round of voting from the magazine's editors and reviewers—read Art Dudley's comments to find out who the winners are.
Featured on the December issue's cover is the twentieth-anniversary upgrade of Ayre's KX-R preamplifier. John Atkinson sums up his experience thusly: "While $27,500 is a high price to pay for a line preamplifier, the KX-R Twenty is as good as a preamplifier can get." Two very differently engineered D/A processors, from Allnic and Cambridge, are examined in this issue, while the extraordinarily versatile DEQX PreMate D/A preamplifier and equalizer impressed Kal Rubinson.
Herb Reichert extols the joys of listening in mono with a Grado cartridge, Robert Deutsch finds some PrimaLune tubes add delight to his listening, and Robert J. Reina auditions a high-value LP player from Music Hall. All in all, the December Stereophile is one heck of a magazine issue!
