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Ortofon Bronze MM Cartridge
Ortofon Bronze MM Cartridge $440 Best Bang For Your Buck! There are zillions of cartridge choices out there. Which cart, out of all of them, hits the point of diminishing returns? I’m here to tell you, it’s the Ortofon Bronze 2M Moving Magnet cartridge. It will give you the biggest slice of very high end vinyl at an attainable price point. Why?…
Don’t Forget Silver Discs!
Streaming is lots of fun. The option to choose a song with a light touch of your tablet is pretty tempting. We are so spoiled! Yet for those of us who listen to entire works, or ALBUMS (can you imagine?!), please don’t lose track of your silver discs. That would include Red Book CD, and of course SACD. I for one, still…
Klipsch LaScala British Hi-Fi Review Comments
“The speaker’s upper cabinet contains the new tweeter, which sports a lightweight polyimide diaphragm loaded by Klipsch’s Tractrix horn.” Like no other. “This is a striking sounding design, in an almost entirely positive way. It’s the aural equivalent of a bright, fresh autumn morning with an azure-blue sky and a chill in the air through which the sunshine blazes a path. Listening…
Stereophile Magazine Surprises
I admit, I chide magazines like Stereophile & The Absolute Sound. There’s no doubt the writers are smart guys that love the hobby. But their perspective on price/performance doesn’t correlate with ours- the readers. The magazines don’t buy products to audition. Products are loaned. All you have to do is read a review or two to see how out of touch these…
Bjorn Erik Edvardsen: RIP (1945-2018)
BEE of NAD has died after being with the company 46 years. What a run! BEE was born in Norway and gets significant credit for changing the face of affordable audio gear. After stints at Dolby Labs and AR, BEE helped kick start a new audio company, NAD, in England in1972. In 1978 BEE designed the iconic NAD 3020 integrated amplifier. It…
McIntosh Integrated Amps (& One Receiver)
McIntosh doesn’t allow us to post prices. This doesn’t make any sense, but that’s their edict. Just Google a review of a given product to find its price. With so many customers buying the Bluesound Node ($600) from us these days as their streaming source that supports CD and MQA level sound through Tidal, integrated amps make great sense to interface to…
Klipsch Heritage Speakers
Finished in Satin Black Ash, American Walnut & Natural Cherry I’ve been at many an audio demonstration, that no matter how impressive, when it ended, the audiophiles were sitting on their hands in stone silence – as if they were in church. There is something about the nature of being a card carrying audiophile that makes these guys afraid to express an…