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Today's Best Hi-Fi Reviews and Commentary Stereophile Lenbrook Presents the NAD M33 BluOS Streaming DAC Amplifier 21 August 2020, 7:13 pm LIVE: Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 12:00PM ET Join us when Lenbrook presents a deep dive into the NAD M33 BluOS Streaming DAC Amplifier, with an overview of features and benefits, including an in-depth look at their novel Eigentakt amplification technology.Fri, 08/21/2020... Revinylization #9: Sonny Rollins's <I>Way Out West</I> on ERC 21 August 2020, 6:12 pm Used copies of Sonny Rollins's classic 1957 record Way Out West are easy enough to find. The album has been reissued some 30 times on vinyl, most recently in 2018 on Craft Recordings (but read Michael Fremer's take on that reissue before buying). You can still buy Original Jazz Classics reissues from 1988—sealed —for about $20. If you want an early pressing, though, your opportunities are limited. If you want an early pressing in collectable condition, expect to pay real money. And if... GoldenEar BRX (Bookshelf Reference X) loudspeaker 20 August 2020, 3:54 pm Loudspeaker manufacturer GoldenEar Technology was founded in 2010 by a team led by Sandy Gross, who over the decades was responsible for a succession of affordable high-performance loudspeakers from Polk and Definitive Technology (footnote 1). Gross continued that tradition with GoldenEar: Even the company's flagship, the Triton Reference, which I favorably reviewed in January 2018, was priced a couple of dollars short of $8500/pair. (GoldenEar was acquired by The Quest Group, the parent company... Analog Corner #301: WallyTractor, StylusTimer, Fuuga, Tzar DST 19 August 2020, 5:53 pm How goes your quarantining? Honestly, my life hasn't changed much here. I'm locked in the basement as usual, happy to have a good audio system and overwhelmed by my musical choices. Other than minimizing shopping expeditions and wearing a mask, the biggest change in my life is a spike in requests from readers for upgrade advice. I've never been so busy answering reader emails. Wed, 08/19/2020... Summer Vinyl Sweeps which features prizes from VPI/SVS/Nordost and Disney Music Emporium! 18 August 2020, 5:53 pm Register to win a complete vinyl playback system and stack of records (Value $4,682.44 total) we are giving away! Prizes include: 10 select vinyl LPs from Disney Music Emporium's collection (including the Star Wars: A New Hope Box Set!), The VPI Player Turntable, SVS Ultra Bookshelf speakers and Prime Wireless Soundbase, and a complete set of Nordost cables to tie everything together! Tue, 08/18/2020... Absolute Sound Introducing the New R 6-Series 21 August 2020, 2:30 pm The following is a press release issued by Audiovector. August 21, 2020 - Since 1979, we have designed, developed, and handcrafted our Audiovector loudspeakers in Copenhagen, Denmark. Audiovector is a family-owned company. Today we can finally announce the launch of the new Audiovector R 6-series. A series of loudspeakers based on a mixture of evolution and brand-new inventions. Everything we believe a pair of high-end loudspeakers should be able to deliver – Speed, Dynamics, and Clarity. ... Boulder 3010 Preamplifier and 2108 Phono Preamplifier 21 August 2020, 4:08 am In 1936 the Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman asked Arturo Toscanini to conduct the opening benefit concert of the Palestine Symphony in New York. The musicians, most of whom had fled Europe after the Nazis rose to power in Germany, were both terrified and elated to rehearse under the famously tyrannical Toscanini, who spent a month in Palestine preparing the orchestra for its American debut. “Mr. Huberman,” the violinist Lorand Fenyves exclaimed after one session, “Toscanini... Muddy Waters: The Complete Plantation Recordings 20 August 2020, 3:18 am Limited to 1000 numbered copies, Analogue Productions’ deluxe release of these seminal Muddy Waters recordings is one of the coolest and most significant projects I’ve seen—not only in terms of the recorded content, but in conception and packaging, too. For the first time these LPs include all the songs captured by Alan Lomax’s “portable” field equipment—350 lbs. worth custom rigged into a Ford sedan—during two sessions in 1941 and 1942, plus inter... HP-3 NOVA – A New Budget Reference with World-Wide DELIVERED PRICING 19 August 2020, 4:58 pm The following is a press release issued by LSA. August 19, 2020 - Walter Liederman announces a new program delivering a spectacular Budget Reference in headphone design – The HP-3 NOVA made possible in collaboration with our friends at Kennerton Audio Equipment. The HP-3 is a thoroughly advanced design featuring a hybrid 50mm membrane made of Mylar that is powder coated with Graphene using a thermal bonding methodology. We are not aware of any other company doing anything like this. This h... Newvelle Records Launches Fifth Season 18 August 2020, 9:15 pm About six years ago New York jazz pianist Elan Mehler and Parisian Jean-Christophe Morisseau came up with an interesting business model. Rather than sell individual titles for the Newvelle Records label, they instituted a subscriber series, releasing six limited edition clear vinyl LPs per season—Mehler calls them “bi-monthly events”—exclusively on 180-gram vinyl, with curated artwork and literature. The LPs are recorded and mixed at EastSide Sound in New York by Marc Urs... Enjoy The Music.com The Cable Company Summer Against Hunger 21 August 2020, 11:52 am This is the 25th year of The Cable Company's Summer fundraiser for CARE. This program has run in the aftermath of recessions, droughts, earthquakes, tsunami's and more - but never something like this. Please take a moment to consider the devastating impact if the virus took hold in the Rohingya camp in Bangladesh, housing close to a million refugees. The good epidemiology news is that most of the poorest areas in the developing world are even more remote than usual due to the global reduction in... Marantz PM6007 Int. Amp. & CD6007 CD Player 21 August 2020, 11:51 am Marantz announced their new PM6007 stereo integrated amplifier and CD6007 CD player ($599 and $449 respectively). These models are designed for listeners ready to take a step in their two channel hi-fi system with good performance and connectivity options. Marantz's new PM6007 is a refined two-channel integrated amplifier that produces 45 Watts per channel and handles both digital and analog sources.---> More about Marantz's PM6007 int. amp. & CD6007 CD player. ... Audio Research: Making The Music Glow Book 20 August 2020, 12:08 pm Audio Research is honored to partner with author Ken Kessler in releasing a book timed to the company's 50th anniversary. Audio Research: Making the Music Glow ($150) describes the people behind the company, designing, manufacturing, fine-tuning, and marketing the audio amplification and source components that have been regarded perpetually as among the best in the industry. Celebrating their first half-century, Audio Research's book tells the story of a manufacturer that helped define high-end ... TBT Review: EMM Labs DA2 Digital-To-Analog Converter (DAC) 20 August 2020, 11:41 am On Amazon.com one can purchase a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with three digital inputs and a volume control for $30. Leave out the volume control and limit yourself to only one digital input and you can purchase a DAC for $14. So, why the heck would anyone, even an audiophile, pay more than $2000 for a DAC? And while we're at it, why would an audiophile purchase this EMM Labs DA2 for $25,000? There's really no answer to this other than sound quality, of course, and as proof of this, audiop... Furutech NCF Clear Line AC Optimizer 20 August 2020, 11:40 am Incorporated into selected Furutech products, NCF Clear Line AC Optimizer ($250) features a special crystalline material that has two 'active' properties. First, it is said to generate negative ions that eliminate static. Second, it converts thermal energ...