There’s much to be said for a product that precisely defines its purpose and then proceeds to fulfill it to near perfection. The British designer Jon Palmer set out to make a high-end turntable that ...

The majority of the rooms I visited were playing vinyl or tape per my assignment. That little fact may have added to my belief that RMAF 2013 had the best overall sound I’ve experienced at ...

Most readers of show reports tend to point out the rooms or equipment that a reviewer missed during the show, as if he should have covered them all. However, any seasoned audiophile/music lover who has ...

October 11, 2013 - Live streaming video of RMAF 2013 will be provided by EnjoytheMusic.com. Please check the schedule below to see what content will be available during the show. Live Interactive Streaming Schedule Note: ...

Elsewhere in this issue I discuss the best source component I’ve ever heard—the united Home Audio UHA-HQ Phase 11 tape deck. I’m about to discuss the second best. As a lot of you already know, ...

The wonderful New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin frequently draws amusing tableaux picturing human evolution from fish to man. One favorite ends with a strutting Groucho Marx brandishing a large cigar. Another shows a startled restaurant ...

YOU WANT TO ANNOY AN AUDIOPHILE? You know you do. It’s a fun game the whole family can play. Goes like this. Find a sucker who just spent a pile of money on a DAC ...

When I played him Rapsodie espagnole from a test pressing of Chad Kassem’s soon-to-be-released (October 8), 200-gram Analogue Productions’ reissue of RCA LSC-2183 The Reiner Sound, my buddy and TAS Music Editor Mark Lehman, whose ...

Located directly across the street from the John Wayne Airport, the Newport Audio show would have done the Duke proud. Spirits were high, old hands abounded, and a few greenhorns showed up to sample the ...

For some time now I’ve been hoping that the Eagles catalog would be receiving the white glove, 180gram vinyl treatment. I still own the American originals plus some of the British and Japanese pressings and ...

Good old-fashioned American chauvinism notwithstanding, Munich is by consensus the world’s most important high-end audio show, replacing CES as the place to do business—that is, if doing business in Europe and the Far East are ...

Pro-Ject Debut Carbon$399sumikoaudio.net The most significant upgrade to Pro-Ject’s latest Debut is found in the model’s name, which refers to the lighter, more rigid, single-piece 8.6" carbon-fiber arm tube that replaces the Debut III’s aluminum ...

If last year’s New York Audio Show was a rebirth, 2013 saw its fruition. Everything about this year’s show was better. “We can actually get our gear to the rooms,” marveled Andy Singer of Sound ...

Kuzma Stabi S$2075eliteavdist.com The Stabi S is Kuzma’s least expensive turntable, but you wouldn’t know it to listen to the thing. Blessed with deep background silences, the Stabi S makes a great complement to the ...

Some three-and-a-half years ago now, my wife Kathy and I traveled to Bern, Switzerland, to visit audio engineer Peter Brem and his companion Jolanda Costa, the co-proprietors of DaVinciAudioLabs—makers of the AAS Gabriel turntable and ...