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Lab12 Integre4 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW

June 17, 2022 Marc Phillips 6

There’s an important foreword to my love story with the Lab12 Integre4 integrated amplifier. A few years ago, shortly after I joined the PTA team and started work on my first issue of The Occasional […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Turntables | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 4, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Turntables | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Turntables section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Turntables | Buyers Guide 2022

November 26, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

Welcome to the Best Turntables section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Turntables | Buyers Guide Summer 2021

May 16, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

The Best Turntables [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best turntables that we, the PTA team, have heard.] Fluance Reference FT-85 (from $499 USD) This Canadian […]

Analog

GEM Dandy PolyTable Signature Turntable with Sorane TA-1L Tonearm | REVIEW

January 29, 2021 Marc Phillips 3

I do have a couple of my patented old audio guy stories about George Merrill, the legendary turntable designer who now makes the GEM Dandy PolyTable Signature turntable. (Website here.) The first isn’t really a […]

Analog

The Best Turntables | Buyers Guide 2021

December 4, 2020 Editorial Staff 6

The Best Turntables [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, which makes it […]

Analog

Fern and Roby Maverick Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

August 14, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Fern and Roby Maverick Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

I originally intended to include this review of the Fern and Roby Maverick phono preamplifier as part of my testing of their Montrose turntable and tonearm. Things changed during the review process, however—what was once […]

Loudspeakers

Stenheim Alumine 2 Loudspeakers | REVIEW

July 12, 2020 Marc Phillips 3

Whenever I see a pair of two-way monitors with a high price tag such as the Stenheim Alumine 2 loudspeakers from Switzerland, I’m immediately intrigued and I immediately want to sit down and listen to […]

Analog

Jeff Rowland Design Group Conductor Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

June 28, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Jeff Rowland Design Group Conductor Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

  Having a Jeff Rowland Design Group product in my reference system reminds me, in a roundabout way, of one of the greatest hi-fi systems I’ve heard. This happened nearly a decade ago, at the […]

Analog

Fluance RT85 Reference Turntable | REVIEW

June 19, 2020 Marc Phillips 6

The Fluance RT85 Reference turntable retails for $500. That’s very important to me from a historical standpoint, so allow me to elaborate. I came up with the $500 Rule for turntables back in 1998, during […]

Loudspeakers

Trenner and Friedl Osiris Loudspeakers | REVIEW

June 5, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Trenner and Friedl Osiris Loudspeakers | REVIEW

This is the final entry borne from that magical In Living Stereo room at last year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. I started with the precious, jewel-like Mactone MH-120 power amplifier and XX-7000 preamplifier, continued with […]

Analog

Hana ML Phono Cartridge | REVIEW

May 31, 2020 Marc Phillips 3

My first experience with Hana cartridges of Japan came at the 2016 Newport Show when I had organized my Down Under Audio exhibit rooms for Colleen Cardas Imports. My idea was this—after visiting Australia in […]

Components

Mactone MH-120 Amplifier, XX-7000 Preamplifier | REVIEW

April 19, 2020 Marc Phillips 4

My Mactone (website) adventure started last year at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, when I went to visit my good friend Bob Clarke of Profundo. He brought a pair of Trenner & Friedl Osiris loudspeakers, […]

Analog

PS Audio Stellar Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

March 29, 2020 Marc Phillips 5

After arranging to review the PS Audio Stellar phono preamplifier, I realized that the first time and only time I’ve reviewed a PS Audio product was way back in 2008, when the GCPH phono stage […]

Music

Orqid’s Tenderness | The Vinyl Anachronist

January 30, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Orqid’s Tenderness | The Vinyl Anachronist

Back when I reviewed Rasmus Kjaer‘s stunning LP Turist, I mentioned that three electronica albums showed up on my front porch within a few days of each other. Orqid’s Tenderness was actually the first slab […]

Analog

Lab12 Melto2 Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

October 6, 2019 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Lab12 Melto2 Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

The Lab12 Melto2 phono preamplifier reminded me of how I sometimes get really excited about trying new outboard phono stages—and this is from a guy whose first article about phono preamps was dismissively titled “Little […]

THE Show 2019

A Reunion with Gene Rubin | T.H.E. Show 2019

June 23, 2019 Marc Phillips Comments Off on A Reunion with Gene Rubin | T.H.E. Show 2019

If you’ve been reading my stuff for a while, especially the original Vinyl Anachronist column for Perfect Sound Forever, you probably know of my fondness for Gene Rubin of Gene Rubin Audio in Ventura, California. […]

RMAF 2018

RMAF 2018: Fidelis Music Systems, Exposure, Acoustic Signature and Those Amazing Stenheim Monitors

November 17, 2018 Marc Phillips 1

I’ve known the folks at Fidelis Music Systems in Nashua, New Hampshire for many years. Not only were they one of my top dealers when I was a distributor but they also distribute, in turn, […]

Newport Beach 2012

Newport 2012: Gene Rubin presents Harbeth, LFD, Palmer, MSB

June 13, 2012 Editorial Staff 3

Okay, seriously. Is there anyone out there who isn’t a Harbeth fan? And if so, what’s wrong with you? Seriously. You’ve got issues. Gene Rubin was on hand at Newport this year with a new […]

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