Revinylization #30: Coltrane's Giant Steps from the Electric Recording Company

Revinylization #30: Coltrane's Giant Steps from the Electric Recording Company

I have never written about the ultraboutique reissues from the London-based Electric Recording Company. Pressed in quantities of 300 or so, each title sells out within days (or hours) of its release, despite a price tag of $400 or more. Why review what can't be had?

Linn Klimax LP12 Record-Playing System

Linn Klimax LP12 Record-Playing System

Playing records is a delight-filled chore. The simple, quiet act of lowering a tonearm places one's mind at the ready for something marvelous to happen. Surely, this gentle ritual initiates a higher mode of psychic connectedness than poking absentmindedly at a side-facing equilateral triangle on a piece of cheap plastic.

Bonnie Raitt, Blues Sister: Her Life And Times In Eight Songs

Bonnie Raitt, Blues Sister: Her Life And Times In Eight Songs

When an icon drops her first album in six years, you sit up and take notice. Bonnie Raitt made her earliest record a half-century and more ago, in August 1971. She was 21 and could easily have been carded; the face on the cover of Bonnie Raitt—that first album—has yet to shed all its baby fat.

Hearty Thanks to You, Munich High End 2022

Hearty Thanks to You, Munich High End 2022

Thanks to the customary high level of organization that has made Germany's High End Society such a central part of the audiophile industry, Munich High End 2022 was a resounding success. The industry-organized show attracted 19,767 visitors to the 28,000 square meters of halls and atriums it occupied in Munich's sprawling MOC Event Center.
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