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The first Shindo Laboratory product I ever had in my home was the Aurieges preamplifier, which I wrote about in the July 2007 issue of Stereophile. The Aurieges, which in 2007 sold for $3895 and is now priced at $5495, was and is the company's entry-level line-plus-phono preamp, with separate enclosures for its signal electronics and power supply; each box measures 10.625" wide by 3.125" high by 10.75"deep—a unique and somewhat smaller-than-average size in Shindo's product line—and both are painted green.
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Description: Tubed, two-chassis phono preamplifier with multiple EQ options. Tube complement: two pairs of Sylvania 6072 dual-triodes and Telefunken EF83 pentodes, one 6X4 rectifier.
Dimensions: 10.625" (270mm) W by 3.125" (80mm) H by 10.75" (273mm) D (both boxes).
Price: $7895.
Manufacturer: Shindo Laboratory, Japan, US distributor: Tone Imports. Tel: (646) 425-7800. Web: www.toneimports.com.
YG's cute Carmel 2 speaker is featured on the new issue's cover and is exhaustively reviewed by John Atkinson inside. But the meat in our 180-page December issue is our annual "Products of the Year," where the magazine's writers and editors vote for the products that impressed them the most in the past year. There are some surprises, not the least of which is the great showing made by some very affordable components.
But wait, there's more...
Art Dudley raves about Joanna Newsom's new album, while Robert BAird interview the rock harpist. Herb Reichert enthuses over the sound of…
Oscar Pettiford is one of the least-remembered great jazz musicians, a pioneer of bebop who played bass with the top bands of the 1940s, switched to cello after an arm injury at the end of the decade, then plowed on at the top of his game till he died in 1960. The cello never ascended to the mantle of standard jazz instruments (which may account for Pettiford's unjust obscurity), but Erik Friedlander stands as its greatest champion, so no wonder that, for his 18th album as a leader, at the age of 55, he's finally recorded a tribute to the master.
Oscalypso (on Friedlander's self-owned…
Friday–Saturday, November 20–21, 10am–8pm: Electronic Concepts (174 Route 17 North, Rochelle Park) will host a special event to celebrate the launch of the new Bowers & Wilkins 800 D3 Series loudspeakers. Also on display will be B&W's legendary Nautilus loudspeakers. Other featured gear will include Classé electronics and AudioQuest cables.
Manufacturer representatives from B&W will be on hand to answer questions, provide demonstrations, and play great music. Refreshments will be served and prizes will be given away.
Private listening sessions will be available. For…
Joanna Newsom: Divers
Drag City DC561 (LP/CD). 2015. Joanna Newsom, prod.; Noah Georgeson, prod., eng.; Steve Albini, eng.; John Golden, mastering. ADA/ADD. TT: 51:56
Performance *****
Sonics ****
Drag City DC561 (LP/CD). 2015. Joanna Newsom, prod.; Noah Georgeson, prod., eng.; Steve Albini, eng.; John Golden, mastering. ADA/ADD. TT: 51:56
Performance *****
Sonics ****
It's hard to imagine a more auspicious debut than Joanna Newsom's The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City DC263): Her songs on that 2004 release were imaginative, memorable, and almost uniquely literate, and her performances of them—she sang as distinctively as she wrote, and on most of them, her full-size Lyon & Healy concert harp was the sole accompanying instrument—were effective and…
Thursday–Friday, November 19–20, 4–8pm; Saturday, November 21, 10am–3pm: Signature Audio Video (126 Iber Road, Stittsville, ON) will hold their 2015 Technology Expo.
Manufacturer representatives from Bluesound, Control4, Definitive Technology, Devialet, Naim, Samsung, Sonos, Yamaha, AudioQuest, and more will be on hand to answer questions, discuss new products and technologies, and play great music and movies.
On Friday, AudioQuest's Kathleen Thomas and Frédéric Pinsonneault will conduct a Computer Audio Seminar, providing valuable and entertaining information on how best to…
It never fails. Browse Stereophile's Facebook page, scroll through the comments to an article that refers to life as an audiophile, and splat—appearing like bird droppings on your glistening screen are anti-audiophile wisecracks pointing out exactly how far off the "normal" track our hobby has derailed. Occasionally, I catch myself in mid-sentence, already replying to one of these droppings, the gist of my intended message invariably being: "If you're an anti-audiophile, what are you doing using up what life you have left reading a webpage devoted to a hobby you don't get? Shouldn't you be…
Four-channel stereo is here, but for how long? By the time this gets in print, it is extremely unlikely that any of our readers will have escaped being told that 4-channel stereo is here. "Two channels brought us direction," the announcements trumpet. "Now, four channels bring us dimension." Now, for the first time in the history of hi-fi (footnote 1), modern technology can bring us hall acoustics in stereo, to surround us with the sense of spaciousness that we hear in the concert hall.
On first hearing of this, our reaction was "Whoopee'A breakthrough in realism." The more we read about…
Maryland dealer JS Audio (4919 Street, Elmo Avenue, Bethesda) is holding a special event Saturday November 21, starting at 4pm. Featured guests will be John Giolas, director of marketing for Wilson Audio Specialties, and Rich Maez from Boulder Amplifiers. John Giolas will be discussing Wilson's new Alexx loudspeaker and Rich Maez will be introducing Boulder's new 3000 and 2100 series amplification products and the new 2120 DAC.
The demo reference system will comprise:
Boulder 3060 amplifier, Boulder 2110 preamplifier
dCS Reference Vivaldi Digital system (DAC, Upsampler,…