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Audio Streams #7 Contacts

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Dynaudio A/S, Sverigesvej 15, 8660 Skanderborg, Denmark. Dynaudio International GmbH 2014, Ohepark 2, 21224 Rosengarten, Germany. Tel: (49) (0)4108-4180-0. Fax: (49) (0)4108-4180-10. US distributor: Dynaudio North America, 1140 Tower Lane, Bensenville, IL 60106. Tel: (630) 238-4200. Web: www.dynaudiousa.com.

iFi Audio. Web: www.ifi-audio.com. IsoAcoustics Inc., 4981 Highway 7 E., Unit 12A, Suite 160, Markham, Ontario L3R 1N1. Canada Tel: (905) 294-4672. Web: www.isoacoustics.com

Mytek Digital, 148 India Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Tel: (347) 384-2687. Fax…

Bob Stuart gets CEDIA's 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award

On September 8, the international custom-installation trade association CEDIA named J. Robert Stuart, co-founder of Meridian Audio Ltd. and Inventor of MQA, as this year's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Stuart will be recognized at the annual CEDIA Awards Celebration at CEDIA EXPO on October 17, 2015.

According to the press release: "The CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual who has exhibited outstanding, creative, innovative, and visionary leadership in the growth and advancement of the residential electronic systems industry. Nominations are submitted by…

Shure V15-IV phono cartridge

The Shure Brothers have been making magnetic cartridges since the early 1950s (they had been exclusively microphone manufacturers prior to then), and their continuing R&D program has resulted in new, improved models every few years rather than every 6 months (as seems to be the rule these days). As a result, Shure has the appearance, to most audiophiles, of a stodgy, plodding, rather "establishment" manufacturer that can be trusted to make a solid, reliable product but nothing brilliantly innovative or—for that matter—nothing remarkably good either.

To be sure (Sorry about that!),…

Music in the Round #74

It has been a disrupted spring. Late last year, my wife and I committed ourselves to a long-needed renovation of our main living space: an apartment in Manhattan. Articles, books, and TV shows have illuminated the trials and triumphs of home renovation, but as far as I know, none has included a redo of the listening room of an obsessive audiophile, let alone one who is also an audio writer facing copy deadlines.

I'm more than a little lazy, and I had long-delayed much-needed system updates because of all the dreaded effort and disruption. But slowly I began to realize that this was an…

Shure V15-IV phono cartridge Specifications

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Description: Moving-magnet stereo cartridge with spherical or 0.2 by 0.7 hyperelliptical stylus and viscous-damped dynamic stabilizer. Output level: 5mV out at 1kHz/5cm/s velocity. Frequency range: 10Hz–25kHz. Channel separation: 25dB at 1kHz.
Price: $150 (1979); no longer available (2015).
Manufacturer: Shure Bros, Inc., Evanston, IL 60294 (1979). Shure Incorporated, 5800 West Touhy Avenue Niles, IL 60714-4608 (2015). Tel: (847) 600-2000 & (800) 25-SHURE (US only). Fax: (847) 600-1212. Web: www.shure.com.

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Unfortunately, AQ has eliminated the latching feature on these XLRs. This is not a problem with the power amps, which don't move around and to which I have easy access—but things are crowded at the other end, back at the rack, and the cables tend to pull out when I shift the preamp to make other connections. This is a disappointment in such a product, which is otherwise impressively designed and made (and priced), but the inclusion of latches likely would have required the use of base metals stronger than the silver and copper AQ prefers. Because Stephen brought the new cables before I…

Music in the Round #74 Contacts

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AudioQuest, 2621 White Road, Irvine, CA 92614. Tel: (949) 585-0111. Web: www.audioquest.com

Baetis Audio, 428 Canyon Creek Road, Livingston, MT 59047. Tel: (514) 496-9933. Web: www.baetisaudio.com

exaSound Audio Design, 3219 Yonge Street, Suite 354, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3S1, Canada. Web: www.exasound.com

miniDSP Ltd., Unit 1204, Crown Industrial Building, 106 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel: (852) 2358-2066. Web: www.minidsp.com

Salamander Designs Ltd., 811 Blue Hills Avenue, Bloomfield, CT 06002. Tel: (888) 650-5289, (860) 761-…

Duke Meets Plank

A great, if not the greatest Krautrock engineer recording Duke Ellington in 1970 at Rhenus Studios in Cologne Germany? Sounds implausible, some fevered dream if not outright fiction. And yet it briefly happened. Upon hearing the results, one enthusiastic Kraftwerk fan was heard to intone, “it’s like Chaucer and Galileo were in the same room.”

Conny Plank, who began his career in music working for Marlene Dietrich, became a master at multi-track recording and a Svengali at creating the soundscapes that were the bedrock of European electronic music. An advocate for electronic music, his…

October's Out Now!

Often copied, never equaled, Stereophile's 40-page "Recommended Components" listing is featured in our October issue, which will hit newsstands, mailboxes, iPads, and Android tablets this coming week.

The hot-running Line Magnetic LM518IA integrated amplifier takes pride of place on the cover, while inside, you can find reviews of: affordable phono amplifiers from Schiit, Blue Horizon, and Leema; a high-end monoblock amplifier from Krell; an even higher-end passive preamp from England’s Bespoke; super–high-end phono cartridges from Fuuga and AirTight; an update on Bel Canto's Black; the…

HiFi Buys' Grand Opening In Atlanta, Thursday-Saturday

Thursday–Saturday, September 17–19: HiFi Buys (3157 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta) will celebrate the Grand Opening of their new Buckhead store.

Thursday, September 17, 7–9pm: Michael Fremer of AnalogPlanet.com and Stereophile will be on hand to discuss all things analog. Other special guests include Alex Brinkman of Ayre Acoustics, discussing his company's new Twenty Series electronics; David Schultz of REL, sharing the new T/I Series subwoofers; and Steve Daniels from Rega, who will be on hand to play a full range of analog and digital products.

Friday, September 18, 7–9pm: Paul…