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AXPONA!
Stereophile • JULY 2022
LETTERS
CALENDAR OF INDUSTRY EVENTS
INDUSTRY UPDATE
The J.Sikora Reference turntable and KV12 VTA tonearm
Dream incubation
Gryphon Audio Designs Commander • LINE PREAMPLIFIER
MEASUREMENTS
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Clearaudio Reference Jubilee • RECORD PLAYER
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Lejonklou Entity • PHONO PREAMPLIFIER
MEASUREMENTS
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Technics SU-G700M2 Grand Class • INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
MEASUREMENTS
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Rotel Michi S5 • POWER AMPLIFIER
MEASUREMENTS
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Stromtank S 1000 • COMPUTER-CONTROLLED BATTERY POWER SOURCE
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
FOLLOW-UP
LYLE LOVETT • Music among great players can be a conversation
Rush’s Moving Pictures at 40: A superdeluxe artifact
New rock music as an odd musical niche
RECORD REVIEWS
CAMP COPE • Running with the Hurricane
OUMOU SANGARÉ • Timbuktu
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW • Paint This Town
SPIRITUALIZED • Everything Was Beautiful
TIGRAN HAMASYAN
REBECCA MARTIN/LARRY GRENADIER/ORQUESTRA JAZZ DE MATOSINHOS • After Midnight
WALTER SMITH III & MATTHEW STEVENS • In Common III
“ELEGIE” • Tchaikovsky, Piano Trio; Shostakovich, Piano Trio 2
PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA • Le Monde Selon George Antheil
R. STRAUSS • Macbeth, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
SCHUBERT: 21 SONGS • Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano; Julius Drake, piano
Is it time for a tube surge?
MANUFACTURERS’ COMMENTS
Quackery, gullibility, and open-mindedness