HiFi News
PSB’s New Powered Alpha AM3 and Alpha AM5 Speakers
I love me a good pair of powered speakers because it makes hifi life so simple. I like simple, too.
Flashback-Fi
In Barn for Flashback-Fi: Ensemble Solo B-50 “Tiger” Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
The Ensemble Solo B-50 Tiger Hybrid Integrated Amplifier comes to us from 1991, care of John DeVore of DeVore Fidelity.
Flashback-Fi
In Barn for Flashback-Fi: California Audio Labs Alpha Tube Analog Processor (DAC)
Vintage digital! The California Audio Labs Alpha DAC was the third digital device I owned from CAL, preceded by the Icon and Tercet MKIII CD players. So this Flaskback-Fi hits home.
HiFi News
Darko.Audio Podcast #21: Work Experience with Twittering Machines’ Michael Lavorgna
Darko and I shoot the breeze about “Work Experience” in his recently posted podcast where we cover taste, selflessness, judgement, ego, reviewing, comparisons, and more.
Art&Culture
My Gretsch Jim Dandy: Why Guitars Are Like Lovers and HiFi
Guitars are like lovers. And hifi.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Metz | Atlas Vending
Metz is a good old-fashioned trio — guitar & vocals (Alex Edkins), bass (Chris Slorac), and drums (Hayden Menzies) — who play high-energy, raucous punk-derived noise.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Kora Audio TB140 Integrated Amplifier
Do you know France-based Kora? Based in Toulouse, the ‘Silicon Valley’ of France, the company’s principals work in the Aerospace industry specializing in power supplies and signal treatment while also building integrated amplifiers that utilize tubes and transistors in an unconventional manner.
Art&Culture
The Audiophile Tree Of Life Print (for sale)
The Audiophile Tree of Life Print returns!
HiFi News
Pints With Ayre: Listening Tests
I recently showed up, virtually, for some pints with Ayre to discuss Listening Tests. I don’t know about you, but I crave a beer whenever I hear the word test when it comes to hifi.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Bryston B135 Cubed Integrated Amplifier
The Bryston B135 Cubed Integrated Amplifier ($6695 basic to $8195 loaded) combines two Bryston products, the BP-17 preamplifier and 2.5B Cubed amplifier, in one chassis. Now that’s integration!
HiFi News
The New iFi Micro iDSD Signature Limited Edition DAC / Headphone Amplifier
iFi has introduced a new Signature version of their popular Micro iDSD DAC / Headphone Amplifier and they have a lot to say about it.
HiFi Bargains
HiFi Bargains: ADAM Audio A3X Active Studio Monitor
Sometimes we need not look beyond our desktop to find a HiFi Bargain.
Art&Culture
Movies That Don’t Suck: Strange-Fi
Looking into the future typically takes one of two turns; things get better or things get worse. Then there’s a third option where things just get strange.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Anna von Hausswolff | All Thoughts Fly
Pipe organist and composer Anna von Hausswolff traveled to the Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Grove”), a park in a wooded valley beneath the castle of Orsini in Bomarzo, Italy, and was so taken with its 16th C grotesques, she went back home to Sweden, sat at […]
HiFi News
McIntosh Labs New MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier: A Beast In McIntosh Clothing
The new McIntosh Labs MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier, the company’s most powerful integrated yet, includes their DA2 DAC Module which means all you need to add is speakers and you’re off to the races. OK, maybe a forklift, too.