“I’m up to around 125 rooms,” Gill explained, as Romeo y Julieta smoke rings circled into the autumn sunset. “I’m maxed out, totally maxed out. Our shipper, RG Logistics, has a ton more work than he did last year. I’m practically putting vendors into closets to fill the demand for space.”
To…
One of those soon-to-be-classics is Pure Fidelity’s Harmony Turntable mated with a new Savant Tonearm ($13,995).
Swanbon brought another soon-to-be-classic brand, Lab 12, including the Lab 12 Melto 2 Tube Phono Preamplifier ($4600), Lab 12 DAC 1 non-oversampling DAC ($3300), Lab 12 Pre1 remote controlled Class A Tube Preamplifier…
When I look at Hildebrand’s equipment—from his Montrose Heirloom Turntable with Schröder CB Ebony Tonearm ($16,500), Fern & Roby Amp No. 2 Integrated Amp ($6950/show special), driving Fern & Roby The Raven II loudspeakers (in Ash…
In the Perlisten Room (750), The Listening…
At High End Mässan 2015, an audio show held in Stockholm in early…
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Twenty-five years ago, Giovanni Guidi was a child prodigy. Today he is the best jazz pianist under 40 in Italy. On A New Day, the latest addition to his work on the ECM label, he makes a move no one expected: He brings tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis into his world-class trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer João Lobo.
On the one hand, it is not surprising that a leader would want to join…
Will Kimbrough—former member of Will & the Bushmen and the Bis-Quits and a key sideman for Todd Snider, Kim Richey, and Rodney Crowell among others—is a hugely talented, ridiculously underrated songwriter—his songs have been recorded by Jimmy Buffet and Little Feat—and performer who splits the differences among modern-day troubadour, jangle-rock enthusiast, and…
"Period" Bruckner? Really? In the '90s, the historical-practice movement's incursions into Romantics extended to Verdi's Requiem, so maybe Bruckner isn't so far-fetched. Neither does this depart much from a standard Romantic approach, although Pablo Heras-Casado, a "modern" conductor, eschews routine interpretive touches and underplays certain episodes in favor of the larger picture. In the first-…
Source gear included: AMG Giro 2 Wood Turntable/9WT tonearm ($17,500), with a Benz Micro SLR Gullwing MC Cartridge ($3500), a ViV Lab Rigid Float Ha-9 tonearm ($4500), a Benz Micro ACE SL Mono Cartridge ($1000), and an AMG Viella Forte Turntable ($…