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Every month Stereophile magazine offers authoritative reviews, informed recommendations, helpful advice, and controversial opinions, all stemming from the revolutionary idea that audio components should be judged on how they reproduce music.

The new aether

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LETTERS • FEEDBACK TO THE EDITOR

CALENDAR OF INDUSTRY EVENTS

INDUSTRY UPDATE • AUDIO NEWS & VIEWS

OMA’s K3 direct-drive turntable and custom Schröder tonearm

The RAAL-requisite HSA-1b headphone and speaker amplifier

Stereophile PRESENTS RECOMMENDED RC2021 COMPONENTS

HOW TO USE THE LISTING • The classes each cover a wide range of performance. Carefully read our descriptions here, the original reviews, and (heaven forbid) reviews in other magazines to put together a short list of components to choose from. Evaluate your room, your source material and front-end(s), your speakers, and your tastes. With luck, you may come up with a selection to audition at your favorite dealer(s). “Recommended Components” will not tell you what to buy any more than Consumer Reports would tell you whom to marry. Heaven forbid.

SPECIFICATIONS

Stenheim Alumine Three • LOUDSPEAKER

MEASUREMENTS

ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

SPECIFICATIONS

Cambridge Audio EVO 150 • ALL-IN-ONE PLAYER

MEASUREMENTS

ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

SPECIFICATIONS

KLH Model Five • LOUDSPEAKER

MEASUREMENTS

ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

SPECIFICATIONS

Antipodes Audio K50 • MUSIC SERVER

ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

SPECIFICATIONS

Dirac Live 3 • ROOM-CORRECTION SOFTWARE

ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

DIRAC LIVE BASS CONTROL

HI-FI LO-FI • 20 YEARS OF THE BEST-SOUNDING INDIE ROCK

George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass

RECORDING OF THE MONTH

GRATEFUL DEAD • Grateful Dead

SCRITTI POLITTI • Cupid & Psyche 85

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS • Tiny Music … Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

VICTORIA • Officium hebdomadae sanctae

TRIO MEDIÆVAL • Solacium

IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE • Northscapes

ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR • Enigma

NINA SIMONE • The Montreux Years

DMITRY BAEVSKY • Soundtrack

DAVID HELBOCK • The New Cool

ROY HARGROVE/MULGREW MILLER • In Harmony

Getting your hi-fi fix(ed)

MANUFACTURERS’ COMMENTS

Lou Reed’s dirty boulevard of dreams