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  • The Art of Hi-Fi Volume 02: Soundstage

    PS Audioโ€™s Octave Records follows up with The Art of Hi-Fi Volume 02: Soundstage, a DSD 256 showcase designed to test speaker setup and capture the illusion of three-dimensional sound, reports The Sound Advocate.

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  • Rock Chronicles, Part 9 โ€” Badfinger’s Tragic Story Begins

    Apple Recordsโ€™ prodigal sons Badfinger were poised to inherit the Beatles’ mantleโ€”complete with George Harrisonโ€™s guiding handโ€”yet behind the scenes, turmoil, label neglect, and internal fractures began unraveling their golden opportunity.

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  • “No, I have the best system in the world!” An Update to #3: How Fate Brought Me To My Dream System

    Two years after downsizing seemed inevitable, Tom Gibbs finds himself retired, mortgage-free, and surrounded by two dream audio roomsโ€”one digital, one analogโ€”where Maggies, KLH Fives, and top-tier gear turn every listen into an event.

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  • Metallicaโ€™s 72 Seasons record review

    Metallicaโ€™s 72 Seasons may not reinvent thrash, but it refines it with maturity and muscle. With Greg Fidelmanโ€™s production and standout tracks like โ€œInamorata,โ€ the band delivers their strongest album since Death Magnetic.

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  • Michael Fremer bares all in exclusive interview with PMA Magazine, Pt 3/3

    In the final part of his candid interview, Michael Fremer defends good digital, champions honest reviews, praises his 17-year-old protรฉgรฉ Malachi Lui, and reflects on how far vinylโ€”and his own journeyโ€”has come.

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  • Rock Chronicles, Part 8 โ€” Paul McCartney saves the Poisoned Iveys (temporarily)

    George Harrison championed them, Paul McCartney produced their debut hit, and Apple Records signed themโ€”yet the Iveys (soon to be Badfinger) nearly vanished before they began, victims of internal rifts and corporate reshuffling.

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  • Metaxas & Sins distributed in North America

    Reel Sound Distribution announces exclusive North American distribution of renowned Metaxas & Sins Hi-Fi audio equipment. FORT LAUDERDALE, FL โ€“ May 2023 โ€“ Florida-based Reel Sound Distribution Inc. is now the exclusive distributor of the world-famous line of hi-fi audio products from Metaxas & Sins, following a partnership agreement with designer Kostas Metaxas. The Metaxas…

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  • Treasures from the Vinyl Vault, Part 4

    Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.

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  • Treat your system (and you!) to Korean psychedelic music

    Audioguy CEO Jung-Hoon Choi champions the traditional Korean genre of sanjoโ€”a hypnotic, rhythmically accelerating solo formโ€”as the ultimate system test and spiritual reset, captured in stunning resolution on his labelโ€™s audiophile-grade recordings.

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  • MoFiโ€™s In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida and Truth reviewed, Pt 2

    MoFiโ€™s 45rpm reissue of Jeff Beckโ€™s Truth delivers seismic bass and analogue warmth that outshines many rock classics; released just before Zepโ€™s debut, it remains a blues-rock benchmark for sound and influence.

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  • Mytek launches the Brooklyn Bridge II Roon Core

    New high-end Roon Powered Streamer/DAC/Preamplifier New York, March 16, 2023 โ€“ The new Brooklyn Bridge II Roon Core is a new high-end Roon Powered Streamer/DAC/Preamplifier. The device combines a Roon Core server, network streamer, exceptional DAC and preamplifier with phono MM MC input, and a headphone amplifier, in a single unit. It allows users to…

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  • Florida Audio Expo, 2023

    From Acoraโ€™s granite giants to Endowโ€™s space-age arrays, Mike Harkins captures the innovation and immersive sound at Florida Audio Expo 2023, where 77 exhibits showcased audioโ€™s finest and boldest in Tampaโ€™s warmth.

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  • Experiencing Esotericโ€™s new M1X monoblock

    Robert Schryer recounts the Canadian launch of Esoteric’s Grandioso M1X monoblocks, where Focal Scala Utopia speakers and jaw-dropping dynamics delivered a โ€œgrandiosoโ€ performance marked by explosive realism and lush musicality.

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  • PSB, Sonical, MQA announce headphone partnership

    The first in new category of smart, mobile and true hifi audio products Tuesday, 28 February 2023 โ€“ PSB Speakers, together with hearables start-up Sonical and audio specialists MQA, announced a partnership that will define a new category of high-resolution audio headphones. The product combines high resolution wireless transmission, proven high-fidelity design, and Sonicalโ€™s CosmOS…

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  • Qobuz coming to Canada

    After much speculation as to when or, even, will it?, the popular hi-res streaming platform from France, Qobuz, has announced it will be available throughout Canada starting in May of this year. All I can say to that, considering Qobuz was launched in 2007 and is currently available in 25 countries, including the US since…

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