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Editor: Great writing by Herb Reichert: His left brain/right brain/heart trilemma is fascinating stuff.

Herb's review is the sixth very complimentary review of the BorderPatrol DAC, and all the reviewers have emphasized its relaxed, natural quality. Four reviewers, including Stereophile's and C-NET's Steve Guttenberg, have purchased the DAC.

Despite inferior measurements, there is a good argument to be made that R-2R NOS DACs are more accurate than delta-sigma DACs, which use upsampling and massive error correction to achieve good measured…

"We picked CARE because they're incredibly efficient for a large charity—they have only 10% overhead—and are well known among audiophiles," says Robert Stein, founder of The Cable Company. "They've also become known as one of the…

Anders Ertzeid, who serves as the Norwegian manufacturer's vice president of marketing…

My first CD player was a portable: a Sony Walkman. My second CD player was a sturdy black TEAC VRDS 7, which I quickly relegated to transport-only duties serving one or another DACs from Audio Note. From the start, I enjoyed playing CDs. But compared to LPs, digital sounded deficient in contrast and conspicuously artificial, in a plastic-bottles-in-the-ocean kind of way. It felt distant and mechanical. Nonetheless, my brain readily adapted to its shortcomings.

After the TEAC, I switched to a C.E.C. TL2 belt-drive CD transport, which I…

The history of English song extends back…

In works as vast and challenging as the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, near perfection of interpretation and execution can come in different, even opposed forms. The slow…

From the time the Luxman MQ-88uSE arrived at my house until I sat down to write these opening paragraphs, I knew only the following: It uses tubes for voltage and current gain—the latter accomplished with two KT88 pentodes per channel—but not for power-supply rectification…

Legendary British record producer James Mallinson, whose close to five decades of work with Decca/London, Telarc, and the labels of the major orchestras in London, Chicago and St. Petersburg, died unexpectedly on Friday night, August 24. He leaves behind, in addition to his beloved wife and son, an estimable recorded legacy that earned him no less than 16 Grammy Awards and 49 Grammy nominations.

John Atkinson remembers…

I've been especially curious about the color and tint of Esoteric's house sound, which to this…