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New Feature: The Mimi hearing test—Bathys adapts to everyone’s hearing.
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Streaming may rule, but this $2K system—featuring Cambridge’s AXR100 amp and AXC35 CD player, Pro-Ject’s T1 turntable, and Wharfedale Diamond 12.2 speakers—proves that physical media still delivers musical magic with detail, warmth, and soul.
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John Gish’s Garden District home hosts a mind-blowing, museum-worthy high-end audio system featuring 6-foot German speakers, 30,000 LPs, and 20,000 films—making it part private concert hall, part cinema, and all passion project.
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It was September 6, 1970, a day that would go down in rock ‘n’ roll folklore. The scene was set: Germany’s Open Air Love & Peace Festival in Fehmarn, an ambitious attempt to capture the Woodstock magic on European soil. But while the festival bore the weight of its own chaos, from relentless rain to
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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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In this eye-opening interview, a longtime moderator of a Quebec audiophile group, details how Facebook communities meant to celebrate hi-fi turned hostile—driven, he says, by bullies, egos, and a toxic fear of honest sharing.
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Jade Bird sharpens her edge on Different Kinds of Light, weaving rock grit with intimate songwriting, while Greta Van Fleet’s The Battle at Garden’s Gate finds the band maturing into a grander, more cinematic soundscape.
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BROADENING OUR HORIZONS We’re excited to announce that PMA Magazine is broadening its horizons! Starting now, PMA will, along with its written content, offer a platform for a diverse range of podcasts. Our first feature is an engaging series hosted by the multi-talented Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister fame. This new feature aligns with
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The music lover’s first step into True Sound.
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The BP-19 leverages years of R&D and many design innovations that were achieved during the development of the multi-award-winning BR-20 preamplifier.
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In this moving tribute, Sinéad O’Connor’s battles with trauma, fame, and faith are laid bare—yet it’s her transcendent voice and fierce vulnerability that ultimately defined a life lived beyond the grasp of convention.
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Let the Sun Shine In Feb. 16–18! Save these dates for The Florida International Audio Expo 2024.
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The second part of this insightful series explores how Aversions, Desires, and Expectations subtly sabotage our music enjoyment—arguing that true listening begins only when we quiet the critical voice in our head.
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Reflecting on his first Fillmore East show in 1968, Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French recalls how Canned Heat’s Henry Vestine provided the inspiration he needed—a blue-collar blues guitarist whose tone and style were accessible enough to emulate and transformative for a budding player.
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Iron Maiden’s Senjutsu earns an 8/10 from a loyal fan who praises Bruce Dickinson’s vocals and the fresh sound of “The Writing on the Wall,” but criticizes the album’s dragging length, flat production, and familiar formulas.