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Stereophile doesn't routinely publish cable measurements. However, because the Harmonic Technology CyberLight Wave and P2A cables include active voltage/light and light/voltage transducers, it cannot be taken for granted that they will behave in the expected linear manner. I therefore asked Harmonic Technology to send me a balanced set of CyberLight interconnects, both for me to try out between my Mark Levinson D/A processor and preamplifier, and to be measured.

For the measurements, I hooked up the cables between the balanced outputs and inputs of my…

Editor: We want to thank Michael Fremer for his stunning subjective description of CyberLight cables in his system. We deeply appreciate his willingness to express so deeply what he has heard. We also want to thank John Atkinson's willingness to take our product into the lab. JA's measurement has put our engineers under stress; they can't understand how it differs so much from their own. We will examine our cable carefully and, if we may, ask Mr. Atkinson a few questions about his test setup so we can duplicate conditions. It is an honor for us to have a review in…

Editor: I began skimming the Harmonic Technology review in August (p.123) without first noting who was doing the reviewing. As the article poured on more and more accolades and finally got to the business of claiming "most significant single technological breakthrough," I was thinking, Okay, who is doing all this gushing? I flipped back a few pages, expecting to see some guest contributor, because no one at Stereophile puts their coconuts that far out on the chopping block and then dares the technical community to feed him…

For self-styled golden ears to be claiming, and trying, to be "objective" is to deny reality, because perception is not like instrumentation. Everything we perceive…

Bogey's career ended with The Harder They Fall. Marilyn Monroe's final film was The Misfits. Marlene Dietrich finished with Just a Gigolo. An artist's final work often has a way of cutting to the heart of his or her talent.

Despite the Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista kW's choke-regulated power supplies, and perhaps because of the amount of current these amplifiers pull, their performance was enhanced to an enormous and quite surprising degree by plugging them into Shunyata Research's entirely passive Hydra 8 power-distribution device ($1995).

During my first month of auditioning the kWs, they drew power from the original Hydra. When I was ready to check out the new Hydra 8, I unplugged the original Hydra and plugged…

The day after we received Puttin 'It Down, RL and I were enthusing over what a superb disc it was—performance, material, and sound quality as well. "I guess we've got our next Recording of the Month," I said.

"I don't know. Blues for Thought [Evans's last album] made RotM. Maybe we should find something else."

"Why should we penalize the man for consistency? Besides, this one's even better!"…

It did not prove necessary to listen to the Micron considerably…