Music News
TIDAL Adds Millions of Master Quality Tracks!
Yes, I said millions.
Year: 2020
Flashback-Fi
Audio Note DAC 4 Signature: A Heavyweight Champ
Compared to the recently reviewed CAL Alpha DAC, the Audio Note DAC 4 Signature is a spring chicken.
Art&Culture
“In My Own Time: A Portrait Of Karen Dalton” Premieres Today!
Karen Dalton possessed a singular and soul stirring voice while existing well off the radar yet her influence belies her humble and troubled life.
HiFi News
Poll Results: Lossless Streaming
Sometimes Polls can yield surprising results or feed back pretty much what you expected. Other times the results can be misinterpreted and in that exceptionally rare case results can be completely ignored. Cough.
HiFi Bargains
HiFi Bargains: Roon + Streaming
Imagine your long lost great Uncle Bud passed away and bequeathed unto you his 2-million album music library.
Art&Culture
Three Great Art Books By People Not Known For Their Art
I am a fan of the other. Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, and Henri Michaux’s visual works of art have long fascinated me to no end.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Alison Cotton | Only Darkness Now
Sometimes words fail to capture my mood and this week was a perfect time for wordless reflection.
Digital Reviews
The CAL Labs Alpha: A Tube DAC For The Ages?
Have you ever wondered — What does a 25-year-old DAC sound like? Well, I’m here to tell ‘ya.
Digital Reviews
totaldac d1-tube DAC in Retrograde: The Tube Upgrade
Sometimes old is new again. I received this email from totaldac’s Vincent Brient on September 24:
Music News
Discogs Turns 20
Where do you buy your used vinyl? Yard sales, record shops, eBay? While I’ve done all of the above, my favorite place to buy used vinyl is Discogs.
HiFi News
The Finest Audio Show Zurich 2021 Cancelled Due To Corona Pandemic
When I first read the news announcing the dates for the Finest Audio Show Zurich scheduled for January 9 – 10 of 2021, I thought, really?
HiFi News
Poll: Which lossless streaming service do you use?
As the number of lossless streaming options grow, which one, or perhaps more accurately which ones, do you use? Please take a moment and respond to our Poll.
Art&Culture
Movies That Don’t Suck: Häxan and A Halloween List
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.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Adrianne Lenker | songs and instrumentals
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 […]
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?