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New Album Releases Project 2020-5-10
It is what it is. What I like, and to that which I listen may very well go against the grain, but then whoever said I was agreeable just doesn’t know me all that well. Anne Bisson is a treasure. I not...
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Stillpoints Ultra 6 Resonance Control Feet Review
Introduction In the past (at least until about ten years ago), I used a wide, constantly changing variety of isolation shelves and footers hoping to find the holy grail, or at least the audiophile...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-5-16
Mid May and what has NARP learned? Well, I can only surmise from the paucity of releases from one week to the next that the pandemic is indeed taking its toll. Now, let’s do bear in mind that a...
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Historically Significant Phono Cartridges, Part 2: Grado
When Constantine suggested I write this series of articles on significant phono cartridges, Grado was one of the very first cartridges that came to mind. I started selling Grado cartridges in 1968...
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Esoteric Grieg “Peer Gynt” Excerpts SACD
In 1983 at the height of digital recording craze, Philips issued a digital recording of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt incidental music to the 1867 play by the composer’s countryman,...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-5-24
Releases this week picked up steam towards the latter half, which is good news for all of us. I was getting worried there. A good friend of mine released an album on Bandcamp: Ars Divina Metaphysical...
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Book Review: Better Days Will Come Again – The Life of Arthur Briggs by...
Better Days Will Come Again: The Life of Arthur Briggs – Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris and a Nazi Prison Camp By Travis Atria Chicago Review Press (2020), bibliography and index, 60 photos, 300+ pages....
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Audio-Technica now shipping ATH-ANC300TW QuietPoint in-ear headphones
The following is a press release from Audio-Technica. Stow, OH 04-24-2020 – Audio-Technica is now shipping its new ATH-ANC300TW truly wireless in-ear headphones, which combine Audio-Technica’s...
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Pro-Ject Records Richard Strauss Don Juan, Tod und Verklarung, Also Sprach...
Press Release: Pro-Ject Records releases the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan LP Tracks: Side A: Don Juan, Op. 20 Side B: Tod und Verklarung, Op. 24 Side C & D: Also Sprach Zarathustra,...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-5-30
We need music now more than ever for reasons I don’t have to go in to. And for anyone who needs to have the explained, perhaps, quite possibly, music is NOT for you. Having overseen this project for...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-6-6
We need music now more than ever for reasons I don’t have to go in to. And for anyone who needs to have the explained, perhaps, quite possibly, music is NOT for you. What an odd assortment and as for...
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The King – Original score from the Netflix film
Publisher’s note: Spoiler alert. The brilliance of today’s film producers is thoroughly demonstrated in the 2019 Netflix Original movie, The King. Except for a few passing scenes during the Battle of...
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Clearaudio Master Innovation turntable system Review
Clearaudio Master Innovation (pictured with Clearaudio Universal tonearm). After reviewing three high-end turntable systems by boutique shops, one from Europe and two from the U.S., I wanted to find...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-6-13
Yes, we’re quarantined. Yes, we’re locked down. No, that does not give you a reason, a rationale, an excuse to trod out some introspective navel-gazing shallow attempt at impressing with your depth,...
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Pass Laboratories XA200.8 pure Class A monoblock amplifiers Review, Part 1
Why review the XA200.8 Two years ago, I made a decision that changed my audiophile life. I went to a big box home improvement store where I spied some furniture dollies, and a chill ran down my spine....
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New Album Releases Project 2020-6-21
Late start this week. My mind and focus were taken up with forces greater than I could muster the energy and resources. Blame Canada. An oldie, but a goodie #SouthPark. So some tantalizing...
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Pro-Ject Audio Jukebox E Bluetooth integrated turntable system Review
After reviewing the ultra-high-end Clearaudio Master Innovation turntable system, a curious product came to my attention: a $499 turntable, albeit made by another large corporation, Pro-Ject Audio....
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EMM Labs DA2 V2 Update Review
Introduction If you are like me and have been in this hobby for an extended period, you have encountered manufacturers who for whatever reason seem to update their equipment frequently. Inevitably,...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-6-27
This week came up and bit me in the … I wasn’t expecting it to pick up at the end of the week, so let’s tuck in: Kansas Smitty’s Things Happened Here dropped yesterday on the 26th. I watched the...
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Pass Laboratories XA200.8 pure Class A monoblock amplifiers Review, Part 2
Read Part 1 Critical importance of the amplifier to a system I tried various configurations of equipment to gain an understanding of what the XA200.8 was contributing. Here is one example of a...
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