Judy Spotheim: Seeing & Hearing The Light

Judy Spotheim: Seeing & Hearing The Light

Judy Spotheim, maker of the SpJ arm and the gorgeous La Luce turntable that I reviewed a while back for <I>Stereophile</I> (October 1998) and that has subsequently become one of my references for LP playback. She's an intelligent, well-read individual who has a penchant for asking me, "You didn't read that in the manual?!" Ahem. Although the following interview was taped on the phone from her home in the Netherlands, I hope to meet her sometime soon.

Added to the Archives This Week

Added to the Archives This Week

Now that the big odometer has finally turned over, John Atkinson takes a moment to look back at the last 50 years of music reproduction&mdash;the era of high-end audio. Writing in "<A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/185/">Happy New Audio Millennium</A>," JA offers a little perspective on where audiophiles have traveled this last half century, and where we haven't.

Threshold Service to Debut Soon

Threshold Service to Debut Soon

Owners of Threshold electronics will soon have an expert service organization available for their amplifiers and preamps. Threshold Corporation national sales manager <A HREF="mailto:CE@thresholdservice.com">Chris English</A> reports that he has assumed the presidency of a new company to be devoted solely to servicing Threshold equipment. Based in Texas, Threshold Service Company will employ factory-trained technicians and engineers, and will offer warranties on all their work.

Independent Jazz Gets a Shot in the Arm

Independent Jazz Gets a Shot in the Arm

It's been a tough year for some of the audiophile record labels, as witnessed by the demise in late November of Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (see <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/10614/">previous story</A>). The shock of MoFi's sudden departure even prompted Kimber Kable's Ray Kimber to fire off an e-mail to everyone within virtual reading range, urging them to buy a few audiophile CDs and LPs right now, before it's too late.

Soul & Jazz Greats Mayfield, Washington, & Earland Die

Soul & Jazz Greats Mayfield, Washington, & Earland Die

The month of December was particularly hard on the music world, which lost three of its greatest talents within a few days of each other: Curtis Mayfield, Grover Washington, Jr., and Charles Earland. All were in their late 50s.

Happy New Audio Millennium Page 2

Happy New Audio Millennium Page 2

The January 2000 issue of <I>Stereophile</I> is actually the last to be published in 1999, so, at the risk of adding to your millennial fatigue (footnote 1), it is appropriate to devote much of this month's magazine to navel-gazing. Robert Baird, Chip Stern, David Patrick Stearns, and Larry Birnbaum examine the state of recorded music, while in the first of two articles, Markus Sauer questions the beliefs that underpin the audiophile world. And this "As We See It" offers an overview of what used to be called "high fidelity."

Happy New Audio Millennium

Happy New Audio Millennium

The January 2000 issue of <I>Stereophile</I> is actually the last to be published in 1999, so, at the risk of adding to your millennial fatigue (footnote 1), it is appropriate to devote much of this month's magazine to navel-gazing. Robert Baird, Chip Stern, David Patrick Stearns, and Larry Birnbaum examine the state of recorded music, while in the first of two articles, Markus Sauer questions the beliefs that underpin the audiophile world. And this "As We See It" offers an overview of what used to be called "high fidelity."

Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 300 power amplifier Wes Phillips, September 2006

Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 300 power amplifier Wes Phillips, September 2006

Nothing like scarcity to create demand, right? Well, there's been a scarcity of Nuvistors out there for decades, and hardly any demand. Do you know about the Nuvistor, aka the 6CW4? It was a tiny triode tube smaller than your average phono cartridge. Enclosing its vacuum in metal rather than glass, the Nuvistor was designed as a long-lived, highly linear device with low heat, low microphony, and low noise---all of which it needed to have any hope of competing in the brave new solid-state world emerging when RCA introduced it in the 1960s.

Musical Fidelity
15-17 Fulton Road
Wembley, Middlesex HA9 0TF
England, UK
(44) 0181-900-2866
www.musical-fidelity.co.uk

Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 300 power amplifier Wes Phillips, June 2006

Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 300 power amplifier Wes Phillips, June 2006

Nothing like scarcity to create demand, right? Well, there's been a scarcity of Nuvistors out there for decades, and hardly any demand. Do you know about the Nuvistor, aka the 6CW4? It was a tiny triode tube smaller than your average phono cartridge. Enclosing its vacuum in metal rather than glass, the Nuvistor was designed as a long-lived, highly linear device with low heat, low microphony, and low noise---all of which it needed to have any hope of competing in the brave new solid-state world emerging when RCA introduced it in the 1960s.

Musical Fidelity
15-17 Fulton Road
Wembley, Middlesex HA9 0TF
England, UK
(44) 0181-900-2866
www.musical-fidelity.co.uk
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