Digital Reviews
Review: Technics SL-G700M2 Network/SACD Player
I’m warming up to CDs. There, I said it. And part of the reason for this newfound fondness is the Technics SL-G700M2.
Articles by Michael Lavorgna
HiFi News
Not One But Two! New Pieces from Schiit: Meet Kara & Mjolnir 3
Schiit Audio news is among the most popular kind of news. That’s just a fact, you can figure out why.
HiFi News
HiFi News
Gryphon Audio Readies the EOS 5 Loudspeaker
I’ve been impressed with the complete Gryphon systems I’ve heard at shows, every single time. They always seem to marry great looks with impressive sound, two of my favorite things.
HiFi News
Get Your History On: From Cylinders to Surround Mixes: Daylong Demonstration Features Sound and Preservation at the Library of Congress
I recently had the rather unique pleasure of listening to a stereo LP of the Barbara Carroll Trio released in 1954 by the Livingston Electronic Corporation, a full four years before the major labels got to stereo.
HiFi Thoughts
Aural Memory Is(n’t) Short
I read this statement often enough that it bears some scrutiny—Aural memory is short. Is it?
HiFi News
Tidal Launches Max with HiRes FLAC Leading the Way
Anyone paying attention will have seen this day coming: Tidal Max is here.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Shannon Lay | Covers Vol. 1
Covers can be tricky. My perfect balance between original and redo finds no set formula but one commonality among the covers I love is listening to the new brings the old along with it, like the presence of a dear departed friend.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Living Voice Auditorium R25A Loudspeakers
Some of my favorite hifis are the kind of hifis that are as easy to slip into as a well worn pair of 501s.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Java Hi-Fi Single Shot Integrated Amplifier
The hifi underground has been especially vocal of late, this time pointing me to New Zealand’s Java Hi-Fi and their GaN FET-based amplifiers.
HiFi News
Update: the Aurorasound HFSA-01 Integrated Amplifier’s Got Curves!
EQ curves, that is.
HiFi News
Linkplay Technology Launches the WiiM Pro Plus: A Better WiiM
I was first made aware of the WiiM streamers by my pal Darko (The Wiim Mini is the streamer you’ve been waiting for) last year who has been all over Linkplay Technology’s super affordable streamers.
HiFi Bargains
HiFi Bargains: Aurorasound VIDA Prima Phono Stage
Not a week goes by where I don’t find myself thinking about the Aurorasound VIDA Prima Phono Stage (part of the glamorous life of the hifi reviewer).
HiFi News
Introducing The HiFi ROSE RS130 Ultimate Network Transport brought to you by MoFi Distribution
South Korea’s HiFi Rose burst! onto the hifi scene with their RS150b Reference Network Streamer back in 2001 which I reviewed and had this to say, If you looked at the HiFi Rose RS150b and thought — I need that — you may want to […]
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
Ana Roxanne (see Because of A Flower) and DJ Python’s (Brian Piñeyr) collaboration saw its roots take hold in NYC in 2020 during lockdown as they drove around the outskirts of NYC, listening to Telegram by Björk, HTRK, Portishead, all manner of melancholy acoustic indie […]