Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Welles
Do you like T. Rex? I do because I enjoy hook-rich rock. If you like T. Rex, you’ll like Welles.
Articles by Michael Lavorgna
In Barn for Review
In Barn: PS Audio Sprout100
PS Audio Sprout100 integrated amplifier/DAC ($599.00).
Music
Alice Coltrane’s Lord of Lords Vinyl Reissue
Ethereal beauty. That’s what I think of when I think of Alice Coltrane’s music. Lord of Lords was her last record for Impulse!, released in 1972, and its a humdinger.
Art&Culture
The Audiophile Tree of Life
I made this ‘print’ some years ago. The image is based on alchemy text updated for our hifi hobby. The print was a limited edition as it was printed on ancient paper (from one of my childhood sketchbooks).
In Barn for Review
In Barn: Alta Audio Io
Alta Audio Io speakers ($3,495/pair).
HiFi
Computer Audio Basics: DAC Types
Think of Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) as the genus and DAC types as the species.
Music
:zoviet*france: Curates 60 Minutes of Music 314 Times
Attention :zoviet*france: fans: :zoviet*france: present A Duck in a Tree, a 60 minute continuous mix of some of the best genre-refusing, zero BPM, hypnatropic and maximinimalist recordings that have grabbed their attention.
Art&Culture
Members of Pussy Riot Hit The World Cup Pitch
Four members of Pussy Riot, the Russian protest-art collective, dressed in Russian police uniforms interrupted play 52 minutes into the World Cup final at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow when they took to the pitch. The group’s Twitter page explained the reason:
Music
The Playlist
I have, in my life, made one playlist—The Playlist. While it gets refined with time, here it is in its present state. Guaranteed to cure all ills.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Lucy Dacus
Historian is Lucy Dacus’ latest release on Matador and it’s a record that has grown on me, or I’ve grown into it, over time like a too-big comfortable cardigan.
HiFi
Qobuz Hits The US Market
The news of French Hi-Res streaming service and download site Qobuz coming to the US of A broke last December but the Official US Debut will take place at this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) come October. Hi-Res’ers rejoice!
HiFi
Roon-ology: Hardware Basics
Roon, the music player software (think iTunes but 1 million-times better), is more than a beautiful interface to your music. It is an ecosystem that relies on hardware, software, and a network. As such, there are some things you need to understand about Roon’s hardware […]
HiFi
Computer Audio (CA) Basics: An Introduction
Getting music out of a computer is easy—just hit “Play”. If you want the music coming out of your computer to sound more like music and less like chipmunks trapped in a shoe box, you’ve come to the right place. There are three basic ways […]
HiFi
TM Select: Get Better Sound From Your Phone To Your ‘Phones
If you want to listen to digital music, either streaming or files, using your phone, you need a DAC. Luckily, your phone already has one inside. While you can use your phone as a music player, most everyone does, you can make your music sound […]
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Tropical Fuck Storm
What the hell is going on in Australia?
HiFi
Roon Does Chromecast!
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
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 enjoy).
Road Tours
What’s a Road Tour?
(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 the road:
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Grouper
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
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
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 at age 10, and suffered from psychosis and hallucinations). He […]
Classic Albums
Classic Albums: Jean Dubuffet, Expériences Musicales
“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
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
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 listening to Bach on thehifi and staring at Salvatore Dali.
Road Tours
Road Tour: Fi
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 into the heart and soul of the beast to have […]
Art&Culture
Recommended Reading: The Recording Angel
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 send to make sure I was being clear. I have […]
