Goldring's GR3 turntable is the company's first turntable in twenty years. Developed in collaboration with a renowned British hi-fi manufacturer, GR3 is equipped with the multiple award-winning Goldring E3 moving magnet cartridge and features a built-in phono pre-amplifier. It also comes with a choice of high-quality interconnects from "sister brand" QED.Per the pleasingly spec complete press release for the $999 turntable/cartridge/phono... Read More

"The Doors is 60 years old. Jim and Ray are gone, Densmore and Krieger are still with us and the group's power, led by Jim Morrison's grip on the imaginations of repeat generations of alienated youth, continues full strength. Rhino and Doors management led by Jeff Jampol, CEO of JAM Management plan a 2025 year long celebration starting with an all new AAA edition of a very familiar looking faux lizardskin box set that was originally issued in 2008... Read More

The San Francisco Audiophile Foundation invited me to speak about whatever I wanted to talk about, in two, two hour long sessions held at the most fascinating and packed with cool radio and hi-fi gear, California Historical Radio Society. No, those are not my legs. Mine are actually better. Those two records are part of a multi-record set issued by Riverside Records in which they cut up a single long shot into three or perhaps four album covers. The records were part... Read More

I flew to Slovenia Monday evening, September 30th and returned home on October 2nd. It was a short trip during which Franc Kuzma gave me a factory tour and I spoke to an international group of Kuzma distributors from the U.K., China, India, the U.K. and Turkey among other locales. Kuzma the company has been in business for 40 plus years, manufacturing premium turntables and tonearms, and more recently phono cartridges and a series of accessories.The Stabi S turntable... Read More

Four new ‘Original Source’ titles recently arrived on my door marking the start of fall, and the first new batch of releases following the company’s monumental Karajan/Bruckner box set reviewed here by my colleague Mark Ward. This batch fit nicely into two categories: symphonic orchestral works, and piano repertoire. This review will cover the just released two LPs of symphonic music. The first work needs very little introduction. If you are even peripherally aware of... Read More

Though progressive rock peaked in the 1970s, next gen prog bands continued exploring adventurous compositional directions. Dream Theater, and bands like Queensryche and Fates Warning, embraced the technicality of Yes and Rush while honing in, with a hint of technical prowess, on the harder edges of Iron Maiden and Metallica. Each Dream Theater member is a virtuoso of his craft as evidenced, for example, by drummer Mike Portnoy's double kick drum patterns and... Read More

Continuing my examination of the history and future of classical audiophile-quality vinyl reissues... you can read Part 1 here.

With the success of the Deutsche Grammophon Original Source Series, are we poised on the cusp of an exciting future for audiophile vinyl reissues of classical music? Or will the other classical labels opt for expediency over quality if and when they decide to embark on their own vinyl reissue programs? There are clues to be found in the history of this small but significant market for audiophile vinyl reissues...

Released in 1974, 50 years ago, Neil's 5th studio album, and the one following Harvest is among his most revered and musically enduring albums. Musicians on the album included Crazy Horse's rhythm section Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums), along with other key players Ben Keith, Tim Drummond, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Rusty Kershaw, David Crosby, Graham Nash and George Whitsell (The Rockets). Sessions were held at Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch in... Read More

Mistelbach, Austria – September 24th, 2024 – Pro-Ject Audio Systems just announced the latest edition to the T Series of turntables, the T1 EVO, T1 EVO Phono & T1 EVO BT. Improvements include the Ortofon OM10 MM phono cartridge, a larger Debut-sized sub-platter as well as electronic speed change for all 3 models. The precision-machined chassis remains free of resonant hollow spaces. The high-mass tempered glass record platter is anti-resonant & great for... Read More

The Domino website characterizes these two albums as "beloved", but when they were first released no one paid them much attention. They are costly on Discogs mostly because so few copies were manufactured. Most copies you'll find either have "cut out" cut corners or are promo copies discarded by foolish people.At the time John Cale was a Warner Brothers employee, as I recall, an "A&R Man", tasked with finding and signing new... Read More

At an event Technics hosted at parent company Panasonic's Newark, New Jersey headquarters September 17th, Technics Business Development Manager Bill Voss walked me through all of the new $3299 SL-1300G turntable's features and mechanical and physical attributes, comparing it to the $2199 SL-1200GR2 below and the $4299 SL-1200G above. This video should clear up any and all confusion about what stepping up from the 1200GR2 gets you and what stepping down from... Read More

Press release Oslo, Norway. September 2024 New Little Fwend P8/P10Mount for Rega turntables. No mass, no problem. Our Low model has always been very popular among the Rega-crowd since we started Little Fwend in 2016. When Roy Gandy decided to follow his “less (mass) is more”-philosophy even more aggressively on the P8, P10 and the new Naia and simply just replace less mass with nothing at all - fans of Little Fwend had a problem. We got countless emails from fwends... Read More

‘The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono’ Spotlights Seven AlbumsReleased in America Between January 1964 & March 1965;180-gram Vinyl LPs Analog Cut from the Original Mono MastersLondon - September 12, 2024 – Originally compiled for U.S. release between January 1964 and March 1965 by Capitol Records and United Artists, seven Beatles albums have been analog cut for 180-gram audiophile vinyl from their original mono master tapes for global release on November 22 by... Read More