HiFI Thoughts
HiFi Pedigree or Have A Heart About HiFi
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?
Month: October 2020
Flashback-Fi
A Few (more) Weeks With Junior: Wavelength Audio Junior EL84 Integrated Amplifier
A few (more) weeks with Junior.
Flashback-Fi
In Barn For Flashback-Fi: Audio Note DAC 4 Signature
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 / […]
HiFi Bargains
HiFi Bargains: Wharfedale Denton 80th Anniversary Bookshelf Speakers 50% Off
I’ve heard plenty of Wharfdale speakers, certainly enough to know their warm and rich house sound.
Art&Culture
Movies That Don’t Suck: Starring Sterling Hayden
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.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: SPAZA, UPRIZE! (Music from the Original Motion Picture)
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.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Line Magnetic Audio LM-845iA Integrated Amplifier
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.
HiFi News
KEF LS50 Wireless II Speakers Now Support TIDAL Connect!
Listening to music just got that much simpler. Plug, meet play.
HiFi News
PSB’s New Powered Alpha AM3 and Alpha AM5 Speakers
I love me a good pair of powered speakers because it makes hifi life so simple. I like simple, too.
Flashback-Fi
In Barn for Flashback-Fi: Ensemble Solo B-50 “Tiger” Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
The Ensemble Solo B-50 Tiger Hybrid Integrated Amplifier comes to us from 1991, care of John DeVore of DeVore Fidelity.
Flashback-Fi
In Barn for Flashback-Fi: California Audio Labs Alpha Tube Analog Processor (DAC)
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.
HiFi News
Darko.Audio Podcast #21: Work Experience with Twittering Machines’ Michael Lavorgna
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.