I’ve met quite a few fanatical design engineers in my 18 years of full-time audio reviewing, but Basis Audio founder A.J. Conti is among the most obsessed with engineering detail. For the past 23 years, ...

Designing a high-performance, extremely musical, lownoise phonostage that is able to drive a wide range of cartridges is a formidable engineering challenge, and no single approach has been deemed as the “way to go.” Solid-state ...

As stunningly great as it is, the iPod has one bottleneck that compromises it as a source for serious listening through a high-end home system. I’m talking, of course, about the unit’s integral digital-to-analog converters ...

My last phono-pickup survey (Issue 137) evaluated five cartridges costing $195 to $1500. This time I’ll cover four costing $895 to $3000. I make no apologies for the disparity in pricing. As with speakers, so ...