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Roon Does Chromecast!

July 6, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

When I read this news, released on July 6, I said “wow” out loud. Wow because Google’s Chromecast devices have infiltrated more homes than carpenter ants (that may be an exaggeration).

Art&Culture

Beauti-fi: Dieter Rams

July 6, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

Wright Auctions is auctioning off the JF Chen Collection of Dieter Rams & Co. on July 12, 2018. There are over 130 works available and prices start at $50.00 (it costs nothing to look and […]

Road Tours

What’s a Road Tour?

July 4, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

 (a pair of Don Garber of Fi’s listening chairs) I penned my first Road Tour for 6moons back in 2005. Here’s the opening paragraph from that first Tour where I explain my reasoning for hitting […]

Album of the Week

Album of the Week: Grouper

June 29, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

If there’s one thing you should know about Liz Harris, aka Grouper, it’s this—buy every record.

Classic Albums

Classic Albums: Fritz Hauser – Solodrumming

June 22, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

Recorded live at the Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin) on the nights of April 4-7, 1985.

Classic Albums

Classic Albums: Adolf Wölfli – The Heavenly Ladder | Analysis Of The Musical Cryptograms

May 8, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

The granddaddy of outsider art, Adolf Wölfli (1864 – 1930), lived out his adult life inside Waldau Clinic in Bern after a series of failed child molestation attempts (Wölfli was abused as a child, orphaned […]

Classic Albums

Classic Albums: Jean Dubuffet, Expériences Musicales

May 6, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

“Certain unexpected windfalls … come of improvising on an instrument one doesn’t really know how to use.” ~ Jean Dubuffet

Art&Culture

Serious Eye Candy: Duchamp’s Rotoreliefs

April 8, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

Marcel Duchamp published his 6 double-sided Rotoreliefs, he referred to them as optical entertainment, in 1935. These discs were meant to be ‘played’ on a turntable at 33 1/3.

Art&Culture

Hollywood Hospital’s Acid Room: LSD, Dali, and Bach

April 8, 2018 Michael Lavorgna

The Acid Room, Hollywood Hospital, New Westminster, Canada I know a place, a place where, for a price, you can take LSD and be guided on your trip by the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD” while […]

Road Tours

Road Tour: Fi

November 13, 2010 Michael Lavorgna

Did you ever wonder what the inside of a Fi looks like? Between the sheets, so to speak? I’m not talking about capacitor types and signal path lengths, I’m talking about seeing past the parts […]

Art&Culture

Recommended Reading: The Recording Angel

September 29, 2010 Michael Lavorgna

It started innocently enough—I’d responded to an odious email from an angry and obnoxious reader who was responding to my Stereophile AWSI but asked JA and Stephen to give it quick read-through before I hit […]

Art&Culture

Playing It Over and Over, by Herbert Reichert

January 28, 2010 Michael Lavorgna

I was born in Chicago in 1949. I was a skinny feminine nerdy kid that couldn’t sit still. I didn’t talk. I was a ‘rocker’. I called it “bouncing”. Whenever I sat in a chair, […]

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HiFi with a twist
  • Innuos Statement: Never Let Me Down Again
  • The Primare NP5 Prisma Is Now Roon Ready!
  • “Stray Dog, Misawa” Action Figure!
  • #NewMusicFriday: January 15, 2021
  • Album of the Week: Ashley Paul, Ray
  • More, Much More, From Mytek!
  • Review: Parasound HINT 6 Halo Integrated Amplifier
  • HiFi Show Schedule 2021: When You Wish Upon A Star
  • Missing Live Music? Bandsintown To The Rescue!
  • In Barn for Review: iBasso DC03 DAC/Headphone Amplifier
  • MQA: That Sounds Good. To Me.
  • In Barn for Review: Riviera Audio Laboratories LEVANTE Integrated Amplifier
  • Mola Mola Goes All-In-One With the Kula Integrated Amplifier
  • Looking Ahead From The Red Chair
  • #NewMusicFriday: January 8, 2021
  • Album of the Week: Steve Earle & The Dukes, J.T.

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