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Three New Year's FollowUps
The January and February 2022 issues of Stereophile feature followup reviews of three products: the darTZeel NHB-18NS Mk.2 preamplifier; the Sutherland Little Loco Mk.2 phono preamplifier; and the Mola...
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Gold Note PH-1000 phono preamplifier
Gold Note's $11,999 PH-1000 is by a considerable margin the most sophisticated, most configurable phono preamplifier that any audio manufacturer has ever produced, at least that I know of. Remarkably,...
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Three March 2022 FollowUps: iFi, Pro-Ject, Canton
One reason Stereophile publishes a FollowUp is when the original review leaves an issue unresolved or where further thoughts would be useful. Such was the case with the magazine's March 2022 issue,...
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Analog Corner #319: Paradox Phono 70 Signature phono preamplifier
One privilege of being a Stereophile columnist is the opportunity to cover products from smaller, less well-known manufacturers, including those that don't have wide enough distribution to qualify for...
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Three May Issue FollowUp Reviews
Michael Fremer wrote about the Paradox phono preamplifier in the March 2022 Analog Corner, Jim Austin reviewed the CH Precision D1.5 CD/SACD player/transport in March 2022, and Herb Reichert included...
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EMT 128 phono preamplifier
In 2018, Micha Huber's HiFiction AG, manufacturer of Thales tonearms and turntables, assumed control of EMT Tontechnik, taking over EMT's cartridge business including development, production, repair,...
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Channel D Lino C 3.3 phono preamplifier
Years ago, at a San Francisco Audiophile Society gathering, I was lucky enough to spend time with the late, brilliant electrical engineer Roger Modjeski, whose Music Reference RM-200 Mk.II hybrid...
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Three Recent FollowUp Reviews
Three high-performance products were subjected to second opinions and/or measurements in recent issues: Channel D's Lino C 3.3 phono preamplifier, Mola Mola's Tambaqui D/A processor, and Pass Labs'...
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Lejonklou Entity phono preamplifier
Sometime around 483 BCE, in Kushinagar, the capital of the Malla Republic in what today is the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, an aristocrat named Siddhãrtha Gautamaknown better to us as the Buddha,...
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Analog Corner #324: Phono Cartridge Standards, SW1X LPU III Balanced phono...
Whenever I do turntable-setup seminars, I complain to the participants about the lack of cartridge-pin diameter and clip-opening standards. Anyone who does their own setup has experienced it: The...
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Gramophone Dreams #65: Music Hall Analogue A3 phono preamplifier
If I hear it, is it real? If your ears see, And your eyes hear, Not a doubt you'll cherishHow naturally the rain drips From the eyes!Bujutsu Sosho The more audio gear I review, the more fascinated I...
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Brilliant Corners #1: Auditorium 23, EMIA, Murasakino, and Sound Tradition...
The first audiophile I met lived near a sewage treatment plant on the outskirts of Moscow. It was a few months after the Soviet Union collapsed, in 1992, when I was a college senior, and I recall...
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Analog Corner #263: Zesto Andros Téssera phono preamp & Acoustic...
Maybe you've seen the widely circulated New Yorker cartoon: Two guys stand in front of a nicely drawn, tubed audio system, under which are shelves full of LPs. One guy says, "The two things that really...
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Analog Corner #262: CH Precision P1 phono preamp, darTZeel NHB-18NS Mk.2...
CH Precision's P1 phono preamplifier, which I wrote about in the April 2017 issue, is not going back to its manufacturer. The longer I used it, the more obvious it became that I couldn't part with it,...
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Brilliant Corners #2: Manley Steelhead RC phono preamplifier
The other day it occurred to me that the main difference between audiophiles and more reasonable adults isn't our gear. Plenty of people have impressive hi-fis simply because they can afford them and...
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Analog Corner #260: CH Precision P1 phono preamplifier
Although Swiss-based CH Precision (footnote 1) is a relatively young company, its core design team has been involved in high-performance audio for many years. Their website doesn't state the company's...
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Gramophone Dreams #70: Sutherland Engineering SUTZ & Lounge Audio Copla...
As an upstart journalist-flâneur, my basic urge is to step on the gas and let my '54 Buick careen down the freeway, crashing into guardrails on both sides. Old Buicks were built for that, and I would...
View ArticleAnalog Corner #258: Dan D'Agostino Momentum Phonostage & Gold Note Tuscany...
At the beginning of this century, when the vinyl resurgence was at best nascent and few believed it would be as strong as it is today, Boulder Amplifiers manufactured a phono preamplifier that cost...
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Analog Corner #257: AJ Conti, Audio Research Reference Phono 3, TARA Labs Air...
Armando "AJ" Conti, 19572016 As I began writing this column, the terrible news arrived that Armando "AJ" Conti, founder of Basis Audio, had died of a heart attack at 59. A talented designer of...
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Spin Doctor 2: CH Precision P1 phono preamplifier
In 1928, Swiss engineer and inventor Jean-Léon Reutter created a clock that could run for years without human interaction or any type of external power source. The Atmos Clock required no AC power,...
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