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More than two years after its Brooklyn premiere, Terry Riley's mesmerizing The Holy Liftoff receives a definitive multitracked recording by its commissioner, flutist Claire Chase, and the ever-adventurous JACK Quartet. The genesis and completion of the work is unusual even by the standards of the 90-year-old father of…

You're Gonna Need a Little Music is Yard Act's third album, and it's their first to be recorded together as a band in a studio. Their first two albums were made on laptops, each member recording their own piece separately. That may be what makes this their best album so far.

Their earlier work's directness and simplicity remain, but here it is fuller and more…

Following Miles '54 and Miles '55, Craft's previous 70th anniversary box-set reissues of Davis's Prestige recordings, this year's concluding set, which coincides…

At their best, bicycles and hi-fi components have this in common: They are fine machines that are unusual in how people commune with them; enthusiasts spend many hours with them each week. In very different ways, they facilitate intense experiences. Some of us form relationships with…

I could hear it from the hallway at Audio Advice Live 2026. It was the sound of music—not an audiophile's wet dream of treble and bass extension, not an AV lover's vision of bombs bursting under the floor, and not active loudspeakers cranking and combusting. No, it was something else…

Though sitting atop each other on a hotel room coffee table at Audio Advice Live 2026, the Fyne Audio Cubitt 5 powered bookshelf speakers cast a wide if diffuse stage. Treble rolled off, yet there was also ample and solid bass.

With those caveats aside, the Cubitts were firebreathers of punch,…

During that time in the '90s, I had a pretty swell home system featuring German-made Avantgarde Trio loudspeakers powered by an Ongaku amplifier in which the silver-foil capacitors, cold-drawn silver wire, and silver-wired output transformers were designed and…

The website of Japanese audio concern Elekit is a different kind of experience. The site looks like it was designed by an engineer, and it probably was. No ultra-slick photography, no hyperbolic copy—nothing but product, straightforwardly presented, with simple photos. But once you start scrolling, things can get strange. While doing my research for this review of the…

As the Elekit TU-8888 is supplied as a kit, it carries no serial number; the sample I measured was fitted with a matched pair of Tung-Sol KT170 output tubes, a Telefunken EF86, and a Radiotechnique 12AU7WA. The TU-8888 uses a manually adjusted fixed-bias scheme, set with the front-panel meter according to Elekit's prescribed procedure; I adjusted the bias at 50-minute intervals throughout a 30-minute warmup at 1W into 8 ohms before commencing the measurements, which were performed with an Audio Precision APx555 analyzer. Unless otherwise noted, measurements were…