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.
Articles by Michael Lavorgna
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?
Amplifier Reviews
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 / 7119 dual triodes in the Class A output stage. It […]
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.
Amplifier 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.