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RMAF Day One: First looks and First Watts
|Nelson Pass’ latest project is the First Watt J2 power amplifier. This $4,000 stereo model is a 25 watt design, running entirely in Class A mode. The simple two-stage circuit sports JFET devices at the ...read more -
"Music Matters" at Bjorn's: The Rega Research Demonstration
|Rega Research: Santa Fe Room, Bjorn's Audio - Video, San Antonio Click here for an overview of the "Music Matters" event at Bjorn's: www.avguide.com/blog/1st-annual-“music-matters”-event-bjorn’s-audio-–-video-san-antonio Chad Harper, account manager for The Sound Organisation (U.S. distributor for ...read more -
"Music Matters" at Bjorn's: The McIntosh Labs Demonstration
|McIntosh Laboratory: Ultimate Theater Room, Bjorn's Audio - Video, San Antonio Click here for an overview of the "Music Matters" event at Bjorn's: www.avguide.com/blog/1st-annual-“music-matters”-event-bjorn’s-audio-–-video-san-antonio James (“Jim”) Ludoviconi, McIntosh senior dealer support manager, was on hand ...read more -
The Antique Collector Installment 4 - More on H.H. Scott
|The Antique Collector Installment 4 By Steven Stone This installment will cover Scott integrated amplifiers and the Scott turntable. While none of the integrated amplifiers will deliver the performance of Scotts' separate components, there were ...read more -
Thorens’ TD 309 Tri Balance Turntable Reflects New Corporate Strategy
|At the Munich High-End Show 2009, the German audio manufacturer and turntable specialist Thorens introduced its all-new TD 309 Tri Balance turntable—a product that not only aims to stand on its own merits. But the ...read more -
Vinyl Comeback: Stanton Introduces Low-Cost, High-Quality USB Turntable
|Over the past two years vinyl has been making an unexpectedly strong comeback, notes a recent press release from Stanton, and to enable a broader audience of enthusiasts to experience the LP renaissance Stanton is ...read more -
The Antique Collector Installment 3: More Scott Classics
|The Antique Collector Installment 3: More Scott Classics By Steven Stone Hiya fans. I hope that by now, our third installment, we may have picked up a few devotees. This installment, we were going to ...read more -
The SRM Arezzo Ultra Turntable
|Oscar Wilde claimed to have the simplest of tastes; he was always satisfied with the best. But, while many of us would no-doubt - like Oscar - be more than happy with the most expensive ...read more -
Origin Live Calypso Turntable (Hi-Fi+)
|Origin Live’s Calypso is an updated version of the Aurora Gold - a turntable I’ve been using for a couple of years now. It’s broadly similar in concept, but has a new motor housing, different ...read more -
The Grand Prix Audio Monaco Turntable
|Turntable design has seen little real innovation since the 1980s, with development fastening instead on the refinement of existing approaches – refinement that has followed two basic paths: increasing simplicity and increasing mass. Indeed, the ...read more -
The Willi Bauer DPS3 Turntable
|Willi Bauer, maker of the dps turntable takes "does what it says on the tin" product naming to new heights of clarity, or at least he does when you realise that dps stands for der ...read more -
The Townshend Rock V Record Player
|Considering the apparent simplicity of playing a record and the sheer scope it offers when it comes to innovation and Heath-Robinson engineering, it’s remarkable how few new ideas have really stayed the course. Linear tracking ...read more -
Thorens TD160HD Turntable
|“I know nothing stays the same…” at least, so sang Carly. But in hi-fi, as in life, there are touchstones, ever-presents, whose constancy both reassures and marks our passage: they may develop or evolve, fade ...read more -
Kuzma Stabi S Turntable and Stogi S Tonearm
|My dad, now retired, is a mechanical engineer, and from looking over his shoulder throughout his career I learned that the field could be a strange and wonderful marriage of art and science. Great designers ...read more -
Nottingham Space 294 Turntable and Ace-Space 294 Tonearm
|I first became curious about Nottingham Analogue Studios (NAS) turntables and tonearms after reading Stephan Harrell’s favorable 2002 review of the NAS Space Deck ’table/arm combo in Issue 138. What appealed to me was Harrell’s ...read more