As most of you know, the Sophia Electric 91-01 300B mono amplifiers that I reviewed for Positive Feedback Online back in January of 2011 reignited my interest in SET amplification, because they made incredibly beautiful music with my Tannoy Westminster Royal Special Edition loudspeakers. Richard Wugang, the President of Sophia Electric, just sent me a [...]

Today’s Fresh Catch is the new Duelund Coherent Audio CAST Mylar Capacitor. For those of you who have been following the developments of the Duelund-WRSE Project, where we are building custom outboard crossovers for the Tannoy Westminster Royal SE loudspeakers using the state-of-art Duelund Coherent Audio CAST components, you know that Frederik Carøe created a [...]

As I mentioned in my last post on upcoming reviews, the Fab Four of Mhdt Labs: Mouse, Horse, Dog, and Tiger, sent me their Stockholm V2 USB DAC to review for Positive Feedback Online. As you know, I’ve reviewed both the Mhdt Labs Paradisea+ and Havana for Positive Feedback Online, and I’ve really liked what I’ve heard. You [...]

Today’s Fresh Catch is the impressive Acoustic Revive RL-30 Mark III Demagnetizer.  The RL-30 Mark III Demagnetizer is designed Mr. Ken Ishiguro primarily for analog records, but he says you can also demagnetize cables and multiple CDs/DVDs/Blu-Ray discs in it as well. Like a number of the Acoustic Revive products the RL-30 Mark III Demagnetizer also utilizes [...]

I’m listening to Egberto Gismonti’s LP Sol Do Meio Dia right now, using the New Valve Order SPA one phono equalizer created by Andreas Hadjiminas, working out of Nicosia, Cyprus. Andreas does his artistic expression in vacuum tubes, and man, he is one of the gods of ancient times come to visit us again! The SPA [...]

Today’s Fresh Catch are the Acoustic Revive Single Core Interconnects. Some of you might remember that I wrote about the Single Core interconnects back in Issue 49 of Positive Feedback Online in their 1-meter length. I’ve been wanting to find a really nice interconnect that works well in long lengths so I could put my equipment rack on the [...]

I can’t believe how behind on posts I am! I have a bunch of things I want to tell you about, but the time has just been getting away from me. Where does it go!? Before I get into some Fresh Catchs and such I want to share a couple of messages that I received [...]

There’s nothing quite as luxurious for me as getting up on a day off, fixing a nice cup of coffee, and then settling in for a little listening session of some good LPs playing over the Westminster Royal SE loudspeakers. Today was particularly nice with Dr. Friedrich Schaefer’s hand-crafted ASR Basis Exclusive phono stage and Emitter II [...]

Today’s Fresh Catch is the ASR Audio Systems Basis Exclusive Phono Stage designed by Dr. Friedrich Schaefer. which I’ll be reviewing for Positive Feedback Online. The Basis Exclusive was supposed to arrive at the same time as the Emitter II but a FedEx shipping game of ‘hide & seek’ took place that had Dr. Schaefer, Zed (US [...]

If you’ve read the Sablon Audio Panatela Special Edition Component Speaker Cable review at Positive Feedback Online you know how much I’ve been enjoying listening to music on the combination of an EMT TSD-15 phono cartridge, VPI Classic ‘table, New Valve Order SPA-II phono stage, Sablon Audio Panatela interconnects & speaker cables, ASR Audiosysteme Emitter II Exclusive Version [...]