Danish film director, actor, and screenwriter Benjamin Christensen found a copy of Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th C treatise on witchcraft, in a Berlin bookshop that sent him on a 2-year journey resulting in the silent film classic Häxan.
Adrianne Lenker holed up in a one-room cabin in the woods of Western Massachusetts last Spring, sat down in front of a tape deck or Walkman and recorded two albums-worth of songs and instrumentals. The results are some of the most simply beautiful bitter tears […]
Is a piece of HiFi just a piece of HiFi? Can we reduce the value of a given thing down to those items listed in the accompanying spec sheet?
A few (more) weeks with Junior.
The Audio Note DAC 4 Signature, c.2002, is a non-oversampling, digital filterless DAC using premium parts, more silver than a Liberace concert, a tube rectified choke filtered power supply, and a pair of E182CC / 7119 dual triodes in the Class A output stage. It […]
I’ve heard plenty of Wharfdale speakers, certainly enough to know their warm and rich house sound.
Sterling Walter Hayden was born in Upper Montclair, NJ in 1916, about 6 miles from where I was born which is why we look so much alike.
SPAZA is a loose collective of musicians based in Johannesburg, South Africa — the idea of SPAZA is to jam around a concept rather than to coalesce into a fully-fledged band.
What does the 22 Watt per channel, point-to-point wired, pure Class A Line Magnetic Audio LM-845iA Integrated Amplifier sound like? Perhaps surprisingly, it doesn’t sound like much of anything except pure power.
Listening to music just got that much simpler. Plug, meet play.
I love me a good pair of powered speakers because it makes hifi life so simple. I like simple, too.
The Ensemble Solo B-50 Tiger Hybrid Integrated Amplifier comes to us from 1991, care of John DeVore of DeVore Fidelity.
Vintage digital! The California Audio Labs Alpha DAC was the third digital device I owned from CAL, preceded by the Icon and Tercet MKIII CD players. So this Flaskback-Fi hits home.
Darko and I shoot the breeze about “Work Experience” in his recently posted podcast where we cover taste, selflessness, judgement, ego, reviewing, comparisons, and more.
Guitars are like lovers. And hifi.
Metz is a good old-fashioned trio — guitar & vocals (Alex Edkins), bass (Chris Slorac), and drums (Hayden Menzies) — who play high-energy, raucous punk-derived noise.
Do you know France-based Kora? Based in Toulouse, the ‘Silicon Valley’ of France, the company’s principals work in the Aerospace industry specializing in power supplies and signal treatment while also building integrated amplifiers that utilize tubes and transistors in an unconventional manner.
The Audiophile Tree of Life Print returns!
I recently showed up, virtually, for some pints with Ayre to discuss Listening Tests. I don’t know about you, but I crave a beer whenever I hear the word test when it comes to hifi.
The Bryston B135 Cubed Integrated Amplifier ($6695 basic to $8195 loaded) combines two Bryston products, the BP-17 preamplifier and 2.5B Cubed amplifier, in one chassis. Now that’s integration!
iFi has introduced a new Signature version of their popular Micro iDSD DAC / Headphone Amplifier and they have a lot to say about it.
Sometimes we need not look beyond our desktop to find a HiFi Bargain.
Looking into the future typically takes one of two turns; things get better or things get worse. Then there’s a third option where things just get strange.
Pipe organist and composer Anna von Hausswolff traveled to the Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Grove”), a park in a wooded valley beneath the castle of Orsini in Bomarzo, Italy, and was so taken with its 16th C grotesques, she went back home to Sweden, sat at […]
The new McIntosh Labs MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier, the company’s most powerful integrated yet, includes their DA2 DAC Module which means all you need to add is speakers and you’re off to the races. OK, maybe a forklift, too.
As regular readers have discovered, I like multi-function devices like integrated amplifiers, streaming DACs, and even streaming integrated amplifiers. Bryston’s new BR-20 Preamplifier packs a streamer, DAC, and headphone amplifier inside for people who are in love with their power amplifier. Nice.
Style and substance from the 1970s.
The hifi world is abuzz over the HoloAudio KTE May DAC for three reasons: it measures incredibly well, it sounds incredibly good, and it costs just under $5k.
When will it end? Amazon Music HD offers two streaming tiers: High Definition (HD) which is CD-quality, and Ultra HD which is the same thing as saying hi-resolution. Do we really more confusion when it comes to streaming and hi-res? Do we really need Amazon […]
I can think of no better way to kick off our new Flashback-Fi feature than the Wavelength Audio Junior Integrated Amplifier. Let me tell you why.
The already-a-HiFi-Bargain Bluesound Node 2i Wireless Multi-Room Hi-Res Music Streamer is on sale for $449, $100 of its regular price.
Truth be told, I’m not a fan of art criticism because I’m a fan of art and prefer to make up my own mind, which changes all the time. What I do enjoy is appreciation.
I admit to having a near fanatical desire to focus on new releases for the Album of the Week. And when I say new, I mean just released.
Keep on walkin’ / Don’t look back. The Temptations 1965 R&B hit single “Don’t Look Back” may as well be the official hifi reviewer’s anthem.
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