Some of you may have wondered why my TAS review of the ARC Reference 5 preamp was relatively succinct. There were two reasons actually. First, I knew that the Anniversary Edition Reference preamp was waiting ...

The XJ is the final jewel in the crown of Jaguar’s fully redesigned stable of motorcars. Stately, definitive, and powerful, its interior bedecked with wood accents and the sweet bouquet of leather the XJ is ...

Since I literally just got it yesterday morning, it is way too early to say whether it really is over when Morel’s The Fat Lady sings (although even on a first audition, with the speakers ...

Transport Bit Accuracy Two Theories Explaining Sonic Differences Between CD Transports Robert Harley One of the theories explaining the analog-like sonic differences between CD transports suggests that better-sounding transports produced fewer bit errors. That is, ...

I'm just kidding, of course, about selling my 7D. It's just that I've recently gone back to using the Mamiya 7 II rangefinder film camera (for those of you unfamiliar with this classic you will ...

If you missed the Tele-Briefing with Jonathan Valin on The State of Analog Reproduction, you can listen to it here: What Goes Around Comes Back Around Having been repeatedly pronounced dead for two decades, the ...

This is going to be an impressionistic portrait of what I saw, heard, felt and, in a few cases, did during the audio carnival in Las Vegas early last month. Impressionistic because, for once, I ...

Up until about three weeks ago, if someone had asked me who in the States makes the best dynamic speakers I would without hesitation have answered: “Alon Wolf of Magico and Andy Payor of Rockport.” ...

I've been putting off writing about these products for two reasons, neither of which has to do with the incredible sound they are capable of delivering when fully functional. First, at the moment Japanese-made Technical ...

I feel compelled to repeat, for those who haven’t heard it, what Wilma Cozart Fine, the guiding musical light behind the Mercury Living Presence classics, oft bespoke: Trust Your Ears! Why? Because it isn’t the ...

I feel compelled to repeat, for those who haven’t heard it, what Wilma Cozart Fine, the guiding musical light behind the Mercury Living Presence classics, oft bespoke: Trust Your Ears! Why? Because it isn’t the ...

Unless you’re designing cartridges the concept of “small” has traditionally had little regard in the high end. Sure every once and awhile a tiny gem of a loudspeaker sneaks in to placate hobbyists with limited ...

The words Wilma Cozart Fine lived by were “Trust your ears.” This oft-repeated phrase was more than a mantra; it was the guiding principle that defined her working life. For those who don’t know the ...

Preamplifiers, Linestages, and Phonostages conrad-johnson GAT linestage $20,000conradjohnson.com The GAT is the successor to its highly praised ART, the Anniversary Reference Triode, produced in limited editions over the past decade. More than that, the GAT ...

An old anecdote says that things in life occur in threes. In audio, at least in recent days it’s been happening in twos. First the TAD CR1 loudspeaker a three-way stand mount with the triumphant ...