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When you've sung "Ha! You think it's funny, turning rebellion into money!," it can be problematic when you start scoring major hits. With the Clash, it wasn't funny; their success increased tensions and led to the band splitting up. Music labels rarely have such qualms, and 40 years later Combat Rock gets the deluxe treatment, with 1½ sides of The People's Hall, with rarities and…

In a distinguished half-century jazz career, John Scofield has been everywhere, played with everyone, and done everything. But he has never made a solo guitar record. Until now.

This eponymous release is his most intimate, most introspective album, though it's not entirely mellow. Scofield has roots in rock and country, and on his first solo record, he…

For her first proper full-length, British-born Iranian composer/performer Shiva Feshareki set her ambitions high, reaching up into the ether and backward into the early days of electronic music.

Feshareki has garnered acclaim for her live mixing of electronic and acoustic sounds. On the…

"It's about what we love the most. It's about what we hate the most. It's about what we wait for but never happens. Relationships turn on, interrupt, and resume. Or sometimes they just stay still. Floating and suspended. So breathe in. Let go. Let's begin from nothing."

Huh. Any luck yet?

"And suddenly we discover that it's easier than we thought. It's more powerful than we ever imagined. You can see and feel what's around you with an intensity that you never felt before. Just embrace the most…

Description: Wireless stereo, 4-way, DSP-optimized closed-box system. Two 0.75" silk-dome drivers; two 3" paper-pulp cone drivers; two 1.75" cellulose-pulp membrane drivers; one 6.5" long-throw aluminum-cone driver. Frequency response 30Hz–25kHz, –6dB. Power rating (sum of all channels): 490W. Inputs: phono, line in, HDMI ARC. Network connectivity: Ethernet (10/100Mbps); Wi-Fi dual-band 2×2 802.11 b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz and 5.2GHz).
Dimensions: 5.1" (130mm) × 25.6" (650mm) × 11.1" (282mm). Weight 16.75lb (7.6kg) Finishes: Walnut veneer, graphite (black).
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Digital sources: 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max and iPhone 12 Pro Max, running Roon. Roon ROCK (Lenovo ThinkCentre). Sony S9000ES SACD player.
Loudspeakers: Naim Mu-so 2. MartinLogan Crescendo X.—Rogier van Bakel

To win an EISA award all products undergo a comprehensive multi-step judging…

When Rotel shipped the Michi S5 stereo amplifier to me for review (footnote 1), they sent along a sample of its companion stereo preamplifier, the P5 ($4299.99, serial number 255-9501002), so that I could experience a complete Michi pairing. After a brief listen to that Michi combo, I decided to pair the S5 with my familiar reference for that review, the two-piece D'Agostino Momentum HD preamplifier ($42,500) and write a separate follow-up to Ken Micallef's November 2020 review of the P5.

Whereas Ken's…