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RMAF 2018: Jeff Rowland Design Group and the Ultimate Phono Pre for Multiple Tonearms

November 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

Lucien Pichette of the Jeff Rowland Design Group is an old friend of ours. He grew up in Montrose, Colorado, where Colleen and I lived for a few years, and I used to drive [...]

ZYX UNIverse Optimum 1Ω MC Cartridge | Review

August 25, 2018 // 4 Comments

Astonishment, personified US $16,995.00. There, I’ve said it, in bold. That’s nearly seventeen thousand dollars for a phono cartridge. I still remember the first [...]

Pure Fidelity Eclipse Turntable Review

August 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Pure Fidelity Eclipse Turntable Review: Total Eclipse of the Art, as originally seen in The Occasional Magazine. [...]

Recording the Masters FOX C-60: The New Audio Cassette Standard

July 1, 2018 // 5 Comments

by Carlos Guzman Technics RS M63. That was the first cassette deck recorder I bought with my own money. On monthly installments, I paid $21.50 for 24 months with my funeral [...]

Review: PS Audio Sprout 100 DAC/Integrated Amplifier

June 22, 2018 // 5 Comments

“Dad, why does he always get to do things before I did?” That was my daughter voicing mild complaint over the prospect of her younger brother receiving a Sprout. A [...]

Audio Cassette Revival: For Real?

June 16, 2018 // 6 Comments

by Carlos Guzman With the new tape revival around the world, more and more audiophiles are getting into the exclusive, and sometimes expensive, hobby of open reel playback. [...]

The Occasional Magazine – Spring 2018 Edition

June 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY OF OUR BRAND NEW SPRING EDITION HERE It’s June, it’s back and it’s better than ever… I’m talking about 120 pages in the [...]

AXPONA 2018: Nick Doshi Builds a Time Machine

May 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

A few months before AXPONA, Nick Doshi of Doshi Audio showed up at The Audio Company, a superb local hi-fi store in Marietta, Georgia. The program was to show local [...]

Munich High End 2018: Fern & Roby make it feel like the first time

May 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Christopher Hildebrand of bespoke high-fidelity manufacturer Fern & Roby showed off some impressive pieces of kit at AXPONA a few weeks ago, and when I spoke with him [...]

Munich High End 2018 preview: Von Schweikert rolls thunder from the mountain

May 8, 2018 // 2 Comments

High End at Munich (May 11-13) is peeking over the horizon this week, so I’m continuing coverage – after a fashion – of what’s happening there this year, [...]