Art Dudley | Stereophile – October 2017 Turntable & Tonearm We got our wish. Phonograph ownership is once again depicted as commonplace, even hip, in popular films, TV shows, and ads for other products. Turntables and LP jackets show up in photos in Elle Decor and Vanity Fair. New LPs are sold in stores in […]
by Michael Fermer | Stereophile August 2017 Issue Ortofon, which turns 100 next year, launched the original Windfeld cartridge nearly a decade ago. Named for cartridge designer Per Windfeld – Who had just retired at age 75, after 30 years with the company – that top-of-the-line cartridge cost $3,400 at the time of its introduction.
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Robert Deutsch | Jul 11, 2017 If Stereophile gave an award for Loudspeaker We’ve Most Frequently Reviewed, the hands-down winner would have to be the Quad ESL. The list of past and present Stereophile contributors who’ve written about the ESL’s various incarnations includes John Atkinson, Martin Colloms, Anthony H. Cordesman, Art Dudley, Larry Greenhill, J. Gordon Holt, Ken Kessler, Dick Olsher,
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by Anthony H. Cordesman | TAS September 2017 issue I suppose that in some ways it was inevitable that GoldenEar Technology could not rest on its laurels in producing the Triton One – a truly excellent speaker at its price of $5,000 a pair. GoldenEar’s corporate slogan may be “We make the high-end affordable”,
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by Caleb Denison | Updated July 25, 2017 As I walked out of the GoldenEar Technology suite at CES 2014 three and a half years ago after hearing the company’s Triton One speaker, I thought to myself, “Wow! Those speakers are amazing. Too bad Sandy Gross left almost no room for improvement. What in the world will he do
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May 11, 2017 | HAYWARD, CA – Magico, the Leader in High-Performance Loudspeaker Design and Manufacture, is pleased to announce the M6 which establishes a new pinnacle of engineering and design vision at Magico. Since the release of the M-Project in 2014, Alon Wolf and his engineering team have worked to expand upon the ground breaking
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March 24 | Kari Nevalainen A loudspeaker can be “sophisticated” by featuring highly complex and unusual techniques, or simply by being elegant and expert in matters of culture. ProAc Response D20R sports a new ribbon tweeter, modern carbon fiber mid-woofer and of course, ProAc’s trademark: the meticulously executed crossover. But I’d not call this speaker
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7th March 2016 | What Hi-Fi? So, if you’re not familiar with the Clearaudio Concept turntable by now, the concept is essentially getting the most exceptional sound you can from your records at this price. If that, combined with the five stars at the top of this review and this deck’s mantelpiece full of What Hi-Fi? Awards,
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By Al Griffin | Apr 4, 2017 With the Triton Reference, GoldenEar Technology has delivered their finest loudspeaker yet. It looks great, sounds great, and represents an exceptional value in high-end audio. When I reviewed GoldenEar Technology’s debut loudspeaker, the Triton Two, shortly after the company launched in 2010, co-founder/president/polymath Sandy Gross indicated that it
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By Hi-Fi Choice | May 2017 Classic hi-fi brand, Quad hasn’t forgotten how to innovate as Ed Selley discovers from this luxury set of components I’m not much of a gambler, but I’d be willing to bet that for some readers, a Quad Beautiful System should have a pair of electrostatic speakers fronted by something
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