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Audio-Technica new back-to-school gadgets for our time
The following is a press release from Audio-Technica STOW, OH, June 30, 2020 Soon, students will be going back to school but the educational landscape will be different this semester, with some...
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Audio Note UK Fifth Element/Fifth Force DAC Review
Whether you are a tone-phile or a resolution-phile determines if an Audio Note UK DAC is right for you. While Dagogo is about providing “A unique audiophile experience,” Audio Note UK is about being...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-7-5
Always nice for there to be welcome blasts from the past and the familiar to drop albums in these special times. Shout-outs to: Willie Nelson’s First Rose of Spring Paul Weller’s On Sunset James...
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Pass Laboratories XA200.8 pure Class A monoblock amplifiers Review, Part 3 –...
Read Part 1 and Part 2 With premium program material The greatest joy of an extreme system is not salvaging poor recordings, it is exulting in superb recordings. Experiencing “you are there” moments,...
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W.C. Handy Remembers
A rarely published portrait of Mr. Handy from sometime before 1900. Courtesy of W.C. Handy Home and Museum and Mister Handy’s Blues. The music, words and voice of W.C. Handy reveal a passion for...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-7-12
As the sheer volume of new releases and re-issues/re-masters abates, I’m not about to sacrifice quality for quantity. I am quickly becoming a fanboy of Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony...
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Esoteric K-01XD SACD player/USB DAC Review
Disc ripping and music streaming are all the rage, and many audiophiles celebrate the riddance of their own CD collections in transition to hard drive storage. After having accumulated over 2 TB of...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-7-18
I was sweating this week out as my as it was just about over before the onset of the deluge. A truly mixed bag and some welcome new releases from old friends and acquaintances: The Pretenders’ Hate...
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Wells Audio Cipher DAC – First Impression
Another Wells Audio product is in my possession, this time the Cipher tube DAC. It has the characteristic Wells Audio touch: a generous and inviting warmth with ample definition. I am not going to...
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Top Wing Suzaku coreless straight-flux cartridge Review
When one has a phono stage as powerful and delicate as the Pass Laboratories Xs Phono, he/she is emboldened to expand his cartridge search criteria to include those with ridiculously miniscule...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-7-25
I get several messages and missive folks with strongly worded suggestions and rants, so this week I open the mailbag and address some of them. I do not earn any money off of NARP. There are no...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-8-2
Real winners this week, I spent a lot of time listening and re-listening to recordings, so let’s dig in. Jennifer Pike’s Elgar and Vaughan Williams. I am such a fan of hers, having attended numerous...
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Musical Surroundings introduces the Hana Umami Red moving-coil cartridge
The following is a press release from U.S. importer Musical Surroundings The HANA-Umami Red hand-built MC cartridge embodies Umami, officially coined in 1908 by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda-san as a...
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Godzilla (2014) and Shin Godzilla (2016) motion picture soundtracks
In 1954, the Japanese audience in Nagoya, Japan attended the premiere of the original black-and-white movie Godzilla (Gojira) by director Ishiro Honda. Toho Studios produced and distributed the movie...
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NAD announces Masters M28 seven-channel power amplifier
Pickering, Ontario, Canada, August 4, 2020— NAD Electronics, the highly regarded manufacturer of high-performance audio/video components, today unveiled another new and unique Masters Series product....
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Audio-Technica Introduces AT-ART9XI and AT-ART9XA High-Performance Phono...
STOW, OH, August 7th, 2020 Audio-Technica today announced the introduction of its AT-ART9XI and AT-ART9XA dual moving coil stereo phono cartridges, two high-performance models designed to deliver...
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Linn Majik DSM revamped
The following is a press release from Linn UK. Linn Majik DSM: a beloved classic revamped, inside and out Introducing the new high performance all-rounder from Linn, pioneers...
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New Album Releases Project 2020-8-8
Jumping right in, once more into the fray. Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience’s To Know Without Knowing is a bonafide banger. It has just about everything I could want an album. The music is...
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Commentary: affordable tubes
This quarantine has been difficult and although I do play records a lot during the day, I’ve needed some other things to do audio-wise. So, I have been changing things around in my stereo: swapping...
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Audio Note UK TT3 turntable system Review
Vinyl is alive in 2020 and records have made a strong comeback over the last several years. Unlike CD, SACD, or computer audio, I have always felt that turntables require a certain level of mechanical...
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