2nd Edition
Weiss MAN301DAC Music Archive Network Player
The Weiss MAN301DAC Music Archive Network Player wraps everything you need, minus music storage and the mandatory iPad and associated app, into one very smart, clean, and simple box.
MSB Technology Analog Power Base
The Analog Power Base is a $2,995 upgrade power supply for the MSB Technology Analog DAC. My recent review of The Analog DAC (see review) was going to include the Analog Power Base, but MSB Technologies’ recent move to a new factory delayed this evaluation.
Trunk Records
The label, Trunk Records, was new to me so I made my way over to their website. And there was a tiny treasure trove of the unusual and offbeat. Hooray!
Download of the Week: Snow Ghosts
Normally I like to know a record, and know it well, before recommending it here as a DotW. But I'm going to go out on a shaky limb for Snow Ghosts. I've streamed their debut album A Small Murmuration a handful of very pleasurable times and it sounds familiar which can be a good or bad thing, I haven't decided which, yet.
Download of the Week: Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho
Paêbirú is a monster of Brazilian psychedelic proportions filled with earth, air, fire, and water (after which the four album sides are devoted). And magic. Happy, trippy, hippy magic. One of my favorite kinds.
Meitner MA-2 Integrated Playback System
"It’s the undigital digital." That's a quote from Ed Meitner from an interview in Positive Feedback Magazine regarding DSD. And I enjoy that, the undigital digital. For those of you who don't know Ed Meitner, he is an electrical engineer by education and has been involved in audio design for more than 30 years.
Download of the Week: The Doors
I know, obviously. I grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey, near Paterson, and I can still recall the dull ache of boredom that infested most of my waking teenage hours. There were few true salves but music was always a sure bet breaking through the unfulfilled longing (most days feeling as if you had an impossibly mad crush on someone you had yet to meet).
Synergistic Research Transporter Ultra SE
It was back in February 2008 that several of us took a drive to the Synergistic Research Factory in Irvine, CA. We had the good fortune to meet Ted Denney, lead designer at Synergistic Research who provided me with my first musical experience with Active Shielding.
1st Edition
Meitner MA-2 Integrated Playback System
"It’s the undigital digital." That's a quote from Ed Meitner from an interview in Positive Feedback Magazine regarding DSD. And I enjoy that, the undigital digital. For those of you who don't know Ed Meitner, he is an electrical engineer by education and has been involved in audio design for more than 30 years.
Download of the Week: The Doors
I know, obviously. I grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey, near Paterson, and I can still recall the dull ache of boredom that infested most of my waking teenage hours. There were few true salves but music was always a sure bet breaking through the unfulfilled longing (most days feeling as if you had an impossibly mad crush on someone you had yet to meet).
Synergistic Research Transporter Ultra SE
It was back in February 2008 that several of us took a drive to the Synergistic Research Factory in Irvine, CA. We had the good fortune to meet Ted Denney, lead designer at Synergistic Research who provided me with my first musical experience with Active Shielding.
Download of the Week: Keith Greeninger
This 4 selection album is Blue Coast Records’ first double DSD recording. Keith Greeninger is a folk-style singer that accompanies himself on guitar in this excellent minimalist recording that utilized two channels / 2 mics, and a Korg M2 2000.
I know, obviously. But Getz/Gilberto holds a very special place in my heart, body, mind, and soul. When I was a kid, we'd spend a lot of our summertime at my grandparents house at the shore. My father and his younger brother would mix a thermos full of gin and tonic (which they'd let me sip), and pack it up along with the Coppertone, fishing poles, and fins for our days at the beach.
There's no such thing as digital: A conversation with Charles Hansen, Gordon Rankin, and Steve Silberman
During a conversation with AudioQuest's Steve Silberman, Steve brought up the notion that "there's no such thing as digital" which I found thought provoking. I suggested to Steve that we have an email conversation about this very topic and Steve suggested adding Charlie Hansen of Ayre Acoustics and Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio into the mix. So that's what we did. The opening question . . .
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