#NewMusicFriday
Weird New Pop, v.12
Today’s special edition of #NewMusicFriday features a Playlist of some favorites from 2018.
Month: November 2018
Art&Culture
Twittering Machines 2018 Holiday Gift Guide
This year was an interesting and amazing year. Let’s hope they all are. Mine was split roughly in half, work-wise, and I couldn’t be happier about where I’ve landed—TM is becoming the site I always wanted to see and I thank you, yes you, for […]
HiFi News
News: Qobuz Prepares for US Launch, Announces Pricing Plan
While there’s no set date for the US Qobuz launch, it “will be announced soon”. Soon is good! We do however, have the Pricing Plan!
HiFi Reviews
Review: Micromega M-150 All-In-One Integrated Amplifier
My great-grandmother on my father’s mother’s side loved Chiclets, especially the red ones. She didn’t speak much English, dressed only in black after her husband passed, and perpetually rolled rosaries between her thumb and fingers, the speed of the passing beads based on what was […]
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Asian Women on the Telephone
I first wrote about, and recommended, Asian Women on the Telephone (AWOTT) back in 2013. Here’s what I said:
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: November 23, 2018
I am thankful for you.
Classic Albums
The Blues Are Dead: Long Live The Blues
According to me, The Blues was a musical genre that encompassed many styles of roots music beginning in the late 1800s, ending in the 1950s. Anyone who started playing ‘the blues’ after the 1950s, especially twelve-bar blues and extra-especially if they’re from England, isn’t playing […]
Art&Culture
Review: Google Chromecast Ultra or What Happens When A Stream Runs Dry?
I purchased the Google Chromecast Ultra for one reason—to stream movies from FilmStruck.
HiFi
Lovely Music: Hosted by Joe Whip
It’s been awhile since my last installment [on AudioStream] as I have been busy with life but thought it was time for another go round with some stellar music. Some mainstream and some a bit edgy but worth your time.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: November 16, 2018
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream.com columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Ambrose Akinmusire
Sometimes when I drive, magical things happen. 23 or so years ago Cathy and I were driving from the Maui airport to our hotel, on our honeymoon, and I tuned into a radio interview with Terence McKenna. This was my introduction to him and his […]
In Barn for Review
In Barn: Vinnie Rossi L2 Signature Preamplifier & L2 Signature Monoblocks
Vinnie Rossi L2 Signature Preamplifier (starts at $14,995), L2 Signature Monoblocks ($14,995). The review unit L2 Signature Preamplier includes the optional DAC (+$3,495) and Phonostage (+$3,495).
HiFi Reviews
Review: HoloAudio Azure Headphone Amplifier
What kind of idea are you? The Analyst? Are you the detail hound looking to plumb the depths of your favorite recordings? Or maybe the Sensualist? You’re looking for a dynamic, captivating and more physical listening experience? While no one is any one thing and […]
New York Audio Show 2018
NY Audio Show 2018: The Wrap
There are things I like about the NY Audio Show and there are things I do not like about the NY Audio Show. Let’s start with the bad.
New York Audio Show 2018
NY Audio Show 2018: The Rooms (Part 2)
I’m presenting my NY Audio Show coverage in the order I moved around the show—namely, I started at the top, Floor 9, and worked my way down. See Part 1 for the beginning. Enjoy!
New York Audio Show 2018
NY Audio Show 2018: The Rooms (Part 1)
I’m going to present my NY Audio Show coverage in the order I moved around the show—namely, I started at the top, Floor 9, and worked my way down. Enjoy!
Letters
Letters to the Editor: Welcome Back…
The word is getting out about Twittering Machines in part thanks to my friends John Darko, Darko.Audio, and Scot Hull, Part-Time Audiophile, who have generously mentioned / linked to TM on their sites. Thanks fellas. Another important piece of the word-spreading puzzle in hifi-land is […]
Portraits in HiFi
Portraits in HiFi: Steve Guttenberg
Steve Guttenberg, the Audiophiliac.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: November 9, 2018
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream.com columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Artaud / Chalosse
Antonin Artaud is someone we should all get to know. Unfortunately he’s been dead since 1948. Fortunately his works in literature, theater and art are timeless and his influence continues to be influential.
New York Audio Show 2018
The New York Audio Show 2018 Opens Tomorrow
No, really. Tomorrow. I joked while at the Capital Audiofest just the other day that I was going to buy a tour bus to live on and go from show to show and I had some interest. I’m sure more shows are good for. . .someone?
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: The Wrap
What a great show. What a great show the Capital Audiofest is. Lots of friendly happy people, a panoply of hifi, and real good music being enjoyed by many. What more can you ask for?
Portraits in HiFi
Portraits in HiFi: Jonathan Derda
Jonathan Derda, Mo-Fi.
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Tenacious Sound
Retailer Tenacious Sound also had a number of rooms at RMAF 2018 and I’m going to agree with my friend Art Dudley, again, in picking this room as my favorite of the Tenacious bunch. Here’s Art—”It was sonically wide-open—the system would not have wanted an […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Doshi and DeVore and the Tale of the Tape
DC-area dealer Command Performance A/V had a number of rooms at CAF 2018 and my favorite was the one with Doshi and DeVore in it.
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Mostly Sights 2
When you walk around a hifi show, especially the Capital Audiofest, you can’t help but be struck by difference. There are more means toward our ends than anyone has the time to get to know well. Ideally we find things we like living with and […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Gryphon Audio
Gryphon Audio and retailer 20/20 Evolution shared room 523 along with guest tape spinner Philip O’Hanlon of On A Higher Note, Gryphon’s US Distributor. Philip reeled out Lee Morgan’s The Sidewinder and I had to resist the urge to get up and move to that […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Mostly Sights
I said to myself at the beginning of CAF 2018, Self, you’re going in every room. And I (almost) did. That being the case, I think the best way to share that experience is with pictures. Up top is the “Virtues of Vintage” crew—Art Dudley […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Channel D
Rob Robinson of Channel D is a man on a mission(s)—one of said missions is to help you rip your vinyl, metadata and all. His Pure Vinyl software has the ability to automagically add your LP’s metadata using an internet db lookup “using only the […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: BorderPatrol and Volti (and the end of controversy)
You have to ask yourself— how can a DAC be controversial? You have to ask because a DAC can’t be controversial any more than a spoon can be controversial—people make things controversial when they try to impose their opinion so forcefully in order to make […]