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At his core, Rex Orange County is a singer-songwriter, and his new album begins fittingly with a track that finds him alone with an acoustic guitar. But from there the record blossoms and the hip hop, soul, and jazz elements that weave into his arrangements make clear that his "technique" involves so much more. It tends to follow a Stevie Wonder "classic period" playbook, tapping into a…

Stereophile probably doesn't cover enough avant-garde jazz. Consider this review a step toward correcting that. In fact, the trio that calls itself Weird of Mouth is so hardcore that this could count as two steps.

First a public service announcement: Don't try this record at home unless you are a bold listener,…

One hundred and fifty years after his birth, the music of visionary American composer Charles Ives has gained a degree of public and critical acceptance, but even that acceptance has seemed confined to orchestral works, especially The Unanswered Question and Three Places in New England. One of his thorniest compositions, the stunning…

The H400 was the second streaming amplifier I reviewed while it was in a slow-moving line (queue in British English) to receive Roon certification; the other was the T+A R 2500 R…

Following the supplied instructions, installing the phono module was straightforward: it replaces a multi-pin jumper cable behind the input jacks on the rear panel, and a new…

According to Sierra Sound, this distribution agreement marks the arrival of an entirely original design. Connected Fidelity—as stated on its website and in related materials—focuses its engineering on addressing various elements of resonance control and isolation in audio…

The evening’s spectacle was a live, mostly acoustic recording session by Living Colour, captured by legendary producer Ron Saint Germain (Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Kraftwerk, McCoy Tyner) on one of the…

Tom Fine reviewed both the T+A and the Hegel. In his follow-up on the Hegel, he auditions the now Roon-Ready H400 and compares the Roon metadata experience with that of Hegel's own app.

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As Jim Austin wrote in this space in the December 2024 issue, following a medical procedure that he had in mid-October, he needed to take several weeks' leave to recuperate. He delegated the magazine's production to Managing Editor Mark Henninger, AVTech Editorial Director Paul Miller, and myself. The three of us worked with copy editor Linda Felaco and longtime art director Jeremy Moyler to produce the issue you hold in your hands.

As readers…

Music history, like all human history, is filled with nooks and crannies—digressions from the main course of events. Take Anton Bruckner for example. The global concert hall calendars are filled with performances of his symphonies and some of his choral works. New recordings of these pieces are frequently released. How many of you have ever heard a performance, or…