<I>"He was a warrior...What he did was pry a chink out of the wall and let the light come through the hole. It's up to us to keep that hole open. We've got a world to save. This guy is going to kick our ass if we get up there and we haven't carried the torches."</I><BR>---Ken Kesey, Funeral for Jerry Garcia, 8/11/95

<I>"He was a warrior...What he did was pry a chink out of the wall and let the light come through the hole. It's up to us to keep that hole open. We've got a world to save. This guy is going to kick our ass if we get up there and we haven't carried the torches."</I><BR>---Ken Kesey, Funeral for Jerry Garcia, 8/11/95

<I>"He was a warrior...What he did was pry a chink out of the wall and let the light come through the hole. It's up to us to keep that hole open. We've got a world to save. This guy is going to kick our ass if we get up there and we haven't carried the torches."</I><BR>---Ken Kesey, Funeral for Jerry Garcia, 8/11/95

<I>"He was a warrior...What he did was pry a chink out of the wall and let the light come through the hole. It's up to us to keep that hole open. We've got a world to save. This guy is going to kick our ass if we get up there and we haven't carried the torches."</I><BR>---Ken Kesey, Funeral for Jerry Garcia, 8/11/95

<I>"He was a warrior...What he did was pry a chink out of the wall and let the light come through the hole. It's up to us to keep that hole open. We've got a world to save. This guy is going to kick our ass if we get up there and we haven't carried the torches."</I><BR>---Ken Kesey, Funeral for Jerry Garcia, 8/11/95

Several issues back, I mentioned a major "new wave" of power amplifiers coming along: the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/678/">Adcom 555</A>, the New York Audio Labs transistor-tube hybrids, and the latest Krells, for example. They demonstrate that <I>major</I> audible improvements are still possible in something as well-explored as the power amplifier. Not only that, some of these products demonstrate that superior performance can be combined with relatively low price.

Several issues back, I mentioned a major "new wave" of power amplifiers coming along: the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/678/">Adcom 555</A>, the New York Audio Labs transistor-tube hybrids, and the latest Krells, for example. They demonstrate that <I>major</I> audible improvements are still possible in something as well-explored as the power amplifier. Not only that, some of these products demonstrate that superior performance can be combined with relatively low price.

Several issues back, I mentioned a major "new wave" of power amplifiers coming along: the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/678/">Adcom 555</A>, the New York Audio Labs transistor-tube hybrids, and the latest Krells, for example. They demonstrate that <I>major</I> audible improvements are still possible in something as well-explored as the power amplifier. Not only that, some of these products demonstrate that superior performance can be combined with relatively low price.

Several issues back, I mentioned a major "new wave" of power amplifiers coming along: the Adcom 555, the New York Audio Labs transistor-tube hybrids, and the latest Krells, for example. They demonstrate that major audible improvements are still possible in something as well-explored as the power amplifier. Not only that, some of these products demonstrate that superior performance can be combined with relatively low price.

There is something vaguely disturbing about the idea of an $8000 turntable and arm combination. That's more money than a lot of audiophiles have invested in records through the years. Total overkill! Or so it might seem. But the entire history of analog disc reproduction, from the first LP to the present, has been one of seemingly open-ended discoveries&mdash;of subtleties nobody ever imagined were frozen in those tiny grooves, of levels of quality no one ever guessed the medium was capable of. Yes, newer LPs are a lot better than the first ones, but that is only to be expected in any technologically advancing field. What is amazing about the LP is that, 40 years after its introduction, we are still finding out that all of them, from the first to the latest, are better than anyone could have imagined. An improved phono unit doesn't just make the latest release from Wilson Audio or Reference Recordings sound better, it does the same for <I>every</I> LP you own!