Alex Halberstadt

3 days ago | stereophile.com | Alex Halberstadt

There are things that make me feel so unpleasantly lightheaded that some days I worry my cranium might float away like a helium balloon. Like baby animals generated by AI that I can no longer distinguish from real ones. Skin care for tweens. Headlines about American politics that read like headlines about Turkmenistan. The music of Charli XCX. And being middle aged. Even the term is a con.

3 weeks ago | stereophile.com | Alex Halberstadt

Brilliant Corners #27: Ortofon SPU Royal N phono cartridge (and Patsy Cline) Back in the '90s, when I was young and marginally employed, one of the things I looked forward to most was going downstairs to my mailbox and finding a copy of Audiomart. The booklet arrived every two weeks, sometimes monthly, and was filled with classified ads for audio gear typeset in tiny, difficult-to-read print.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Alex Halberstadt

7 hours agoTanchjim Origin - I Was Wrong! Back to the Origin! - Honest Audiophile Impressions ReduxA BIG thanks to Tanchjim Audio for providing the Origin for review. Revisiting the Tanchjim Origin, what changed my opinion?

1 month ago | stereophile.com | Alex Halberstadt

Some years ago, I visited the home of a well-known American author who happened to be an audiophile. His cramped, dimly lit listening room contained a tube amp, a DAC, and a pair of inexpensive floorstanding speakers surrounded by what looked like a museum of audio tweaks.

2 months ago | cntraveler.com | Alex Halberstadt

All products and listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. The Japanese concept of the jazz kissa, a café-bar where you can hear records played on astonishingly fine sound systems in the company of other enthusiasts, dates back a century.