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Favored Reflections 2021-22 | Music

December 31, 2022 Editorial Staff 1

While I haven’t written about music for a while, I’ve liked a good many musical things since I last scribbled for this fair outlet in March 2020 (!). Reflections regarding 2022/21’s favored and favorite 2021 […]

Audio-Life

Colorfield Records & Pete Min | On The Road

October 24, 2021 Grover Neville 1

On walking into Lucy’s Meat Market Studio (website) for the first time, you could be forgiven for underestimating the studio—in fact the space seems almost designed to have that effect. Keyboards line the walls, Celestes, […]

Jazz Files

John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band–The Ultimate Collection | Jazz Files

May 21, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off on John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band–The Ultimate Collection | Jazz Files

If you’re an analog, aka vinyl lover, I’ll cut to the big magilla: John Lennon’s remastered solo debut LP, Plastic Ono Band, humiliates the original 1970 US pressing. The new pressing, which I assume was […]

The Ivory Tower

Why Do Records Sound Better? | The Ivory Tower

October 17, 2020 Dave McNair 46

Into The Groove Why do a lot of us audiophiles (and casual listener types) prefer the sound of records over the same music released digitally? Is it something about the inferiority of digital? Are vinyl […]

Announcements

dCS Legends celebrates GRAMMY winning engineers

May 9, 2020 Mohammed Samji 1

We can make all kinds of fuss about our audiophile gear, but this hobby would not exist without the magnificent content created by artists and the engineers that support them. dCS (Data Conversion Systems, Ltd.) […]

Audiophile Journal

The Audiophile Socialites | CAF 2019

November 12, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on The Audiophile Socialites | CAF 2019

WASHINGTON DC (PTA) — Most of the things I love about attending an audio show seldom have anything to do with audio. As for Capital Audiofest 2019, it has proven itself to be one of […]

Music

Review: Brian Eno “Music For Installations” 9 LP box set

May 20, 2018 Editorial Staff 1

by Paul Ashby After the piece had been running for about a week, I decided to do a bit of customer research and I went to the park with a translator and asked the old […]

AXPONA 2018

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

May 10, 2018 Rafe Arnott Comments Off on Munich High End 2018: Fern & Roby make it feel like the first time

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 there he related his excitement at attending […]

Analog

Review: Kondo Overture II integrated amplifier and GE-1 Phono Amplifier

May 9, 2018 Rafe Arnott 2

This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional this February in our Winter 2018 edition. We’ll be rolling out articles from it over the next several weeks in anticipation […]

Munich 2018

Munich High End 2018: The show that all shows want to be?

May 8, 2018 Rafe Arnott 1

MUNICH. Have you seen the 2005 Academy Award® historical thriller by Steven Spielberg? If you haven’t let me just say it’s intense. I bring it up because if you have been to the High End […]

Music

Jimmy Smith: DVL Album of the Month for April

May 1, 2018 Rafe Arnott 2

This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the bins, and coming up with […]

Canada

Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: McIntosh Labs and YG Acoustics

April 29, 2018 Rafe Arnott 2

Walking into this room at the Vancouver Audio Festival was a bit like turning the fairy tale Beauty & The Beast into a visual audiophile metaphor. Scoping out the massive McIntosh Labs MC 1.25KW mono […]

AXPONA 2018

AXPONA 2018: In-depth with Zesto Audio

April 26, 2018 Rafe Arnott 1

Music is a thread that seems to run through the lives of audiophiles. I say “seems to” because often in my conversations with those who profess to be said audiophiles at large high-fidelity trade shows […]

Announcements

AXPONA 2018 Advance: New venue, more gear, live music

April 8, 2018 John Stancavage 1

There are a lot of ways to judge the significance and success of a hi-fi show — including the size of the venue, total attendance and number of exhibitors. By any of those metrics, Audio […]

Canada

DVL Album of the Month for February – Traffic

March 3, 2018 Rafe Arnott 3

This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the bins, and coming up with […]

Audio-Life

A visit to Hawaii’s oldest record store: Hungry Ear Records

February 18, 2018 Rafe Arnott Comments Off on A visit to Hawaii’s oldest record store: Hungry Ear Records

It was sun tan lotion, and fresh rain… no wait, tropical flowers. Errr, maybe a whiff of roasting meat on a BBQ mixed in too? This is what greeted my nose upon disembarking from the […]

Occasional Magazine

The Occasional magazine Winter Edition – Download your copy now

February 3, 2018 Rafe Arnott 6

DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY OF OUR BRAND NEW WINTER EDITION HERE If you’re reading this than I’m still alive, and none of my family or friends has tied me up, and left me for dead in a […]

Announcements

MQA: A fresh take – why the big labels are converting their catalogs

January 9, 2018 Lee Scoggins 14

There has been much interest in MQA of late and on some audio forums it seems quite a topic of controversy as well.  So I thought I would do some digging on it in advance […]

Canada

DVL Album of the Month for December – Murray Head

January 1, 2018 Rafe Arnott 3

This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the bins, and coming up with […]

Music

Part-Time Audiophile’s favorite albums of 2017

December 31, 2017 John Stancavage 2

You’ll note that we’re not calling this the Best Albums of 2017. There are plenty of those lists out there, and they are pretty much dominated by this year’s critical darlings with some heavily promoted […]

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