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.
No server is an island. • No hi-fi is an island entire of itself; every component is a piece of the system, a part of the mains. —JOHN DONNE, FROM THE COMPLEAT AUDIOPHILE, 1623
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CALENDAR OF INDUSTRY EVENTS
INDUSTRY UPDATE • AUDIO NEWS & VIEWS
A Chinese cartridge manufacturer surfaces
The Devon and Marlow Excitements
RC2022 RECOMMENDED COMPONENTS
HOW TO USE THE LISTING
VIVID AUDIO KAYA S12 • LOUDSPEAKER
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Engström Monica Mk3 • LINE PREAMPLIFIER
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Lumin P1 • STREAMING D/A PREAMPLIFIER
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Schiit Freya + • STEREO PREAMPLIFIER
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Cyrus CDi-XR • CD PLAYER
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FROM CONGO SQUARE TO TIMES SQUARE • A SHORT HISTORY OF DRUMS IN JAZZ
SOME JAZZ RECORDINGS TO LISTEN TO
Coltrane’s Live at the Village Vanguard and Crescent, from Impulse! and Acoustic Sounds
Recorded music’s hidden history
RECORD REVIEWS
ELVIS COSTELLO • The Boy Named If
CHARMING DISASTER • Our Lady of Radium
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD • Ants From Up There
MENDELSSOHN • Violin Sonatas
THE DANISH NATIONAL VOCAL ENSEMBLE, MARCUS CREED, COND. • Lux Aeterna
BRUCKNER • Symphony No.2
MARCEL ZAES • Parallel Prints
HAROLD MABERN • Mabern Plays Coltrane
PAUL JOST QUARTET • While We Were Gone
VARIOUS ARTISTS • Buena Vista Social Club 25th Anniversary Edition
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