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Even though I know that some Stereophile writers have somewhat ... idiosyncratic views on what constitutes great music playback the following from an article by Herb Reichert about a 78 rpms listening club surprised me. "At the Hot Club, music from 78s felt disarmingly raw and unadulterated and...

Though Stereophile provide measurement data for their speaker reviews, it is well known that their method of graphing anechoic response (splicing gated nearfield data), results in some inaccuracies, especially at low frequencies. To get a feel for how large these inaccuracies are, I looked...

Stereophile Editor-in-Chief Jim Austin has a new As We See It column, entitled Dolby Atmos: A Bleak Shadow? Here, Austin is continuing his one-man crusade against Atmos as it's currently streamed by Apple Music. (To be clear, Austin is criticizing "lossy" Atmos as streamed. Not lossless Atmos...

In Stereophile's review of the Mastersound 845 Compact integrated amplifier, which is a tube amp, editor in chief Jim Austin is once again publicly disagreeing with a reviewer; this time it's John Atkinson. Basically, the TL;DR is that in the measurements section of the review, Atkinson (JA1)...

Courtesy to mr. John Atkinson and Stereophile we have the measurements of the new 804 D4. For many this speakers could be the best bang for buck in the 800 D4 series and the one with the most upgrades compared with the older model (reverse wrap cabinet; down fire port + plinth, new spider for...

Meet the PecanPi DAC and Streamer Improvements over previous generation DAC include: Fully linear ultra low noise power supplies Re-clocking with Crystek femtosecond jitter oscillator Built in HW volume control (no Volume-Clocker needed) Built in high performance headphone amplifier Full...

Can anyone guess what most likely is Sterophile's drug of choice?