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AXPONA 2025 Part 9: Børresen, Aavik, Linn, DS Audio, DeVore, Leben, Well Tempered Lab

5 days ago | analogplanet.com | Julie Mullins

AXPONA 2025 Part 9: Børresen, Aavik, Linn, DS Audio, DeVore, Leben, Well Tempered Lab Hello and welcome to Part 9, the final installment of my AXPONA 2025 show report series. One of the more surprising — or maybe the more accurate term is unexpected — items I saw and heard at AXPONA this year was something that Michael Børresen designed, the new flagship Aavik R-880 phono preamp ($70,000) that made its North American debut at the show.
Bill Evans Trio’s Masterful Final Studio Recording, 1961’s Explorations, Receives a Most Excellent AAA 180g 1LP Small Batch Treatment

6 days ago | analogplanet.com | Mark Smotroff

Bill Evans Trio’s Masterful Final Studio Recording, 1961’s Explorations, Receives a Most Excellent AAA 180g 1LP Small Batch Treatment Explorations, the March 1961 second and final studio release on Riverside by the classic first Bill Evans Trio featuring piano maestro Bill Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian, is remarkable on many levels.
New Wax Wednesday: R.E.M. Stations Their Radio Free Europe 2025 EP for September 12 Release

1 week ago | analogplanet.com | Mike Mettler

Welcome to our new weekly New Wax Wednesday column, in which we will highlight upcoming new LP releases and/or important vinyl reissues worthy of preordering and spinning again and again once they arrive in prime, direct from doorstep to turntable fashion.
AXPONA Part 8: MoFi Electronics, Thales, Clearaudio, Yukiseimitsu Audio

1 week ago | analogplanet.com | Julie Mullins

AXPONA Part 8: MoFi Electronics, Thales, Clearaudio, Yukiseimitsu Audio Welcome to Part 8, the penultimate installment of my AXPONA 2025 show report. In the Schaumburg B Room, MoFi Electronics previewed their latest phono preamp, the MoFi Ultra Phono PRO, as a preproduction prototype on passive display. Well-known hi-fi electronics designer Peter Madnick, who created their MoFi MasterPhono phono preamp, is also the mind behind the forthcoming MoFi UltraPhono PRO.
AXPONA Part 7: VDM Records, Grand Prix Audio, VTL, Pure Fidelity, Lab12, Nordost

1 week ago | analogplanet.com | Julie Mullins

Hello and welcome to Part 7 of my AXPONA 2025 show report. Once in a while when attending a hi-fi show, I receive a compelling invitation to hear something special — or at least out of the ordinary. At AXPONA 2025, I was invited to listen to a lacquer of a forthcoming vinyl release of pianist Marco Arcieri’s Chopin at Home Vol. 2, on VDM Records. It’s the followup installment of pianist Arcieri’s Chopin at Home Vol. 1, which was released in 2024 on VDM.
Short Cuts, Vol. 25: Rhino High Fidelity Series Strikes Again With a Pair of 180g 1LP Winners From Alice Cooper & Black Sabbath

1 week ago | analogplanet.com | Mark Smotroff

Short Cuts, Vol. 25: Rhino High Fidelity Series Strikes Again With a Pair of 180g 1LP Winners From Alice Cooper & Black Sabbath The prospect of reviewing new two new Rhino High Fidelity reissues featuring seminal recordings by hard-rockin’ proto-heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper is both exciting and daunting.
Mike Peters on the Eternal Love, Hope, and Strength of Listening to The Alarm on Vinyl

2 weeks ago | analogplanet.com | Mike Mettler

One Love: Mike Peters was always about getting to the heart of the matter. Photos in this story courtesy The Alarm. We lost a true hero the other day. Mike Peters, frontman of the iconoclast Welsh alt-rockers The Alarm, passed away at age 66 on April 29, 2025, in Dyserth, Wales, following a three-decades-long battle with cancer. There are many brave souls who have fought cancer and won, and Mike was a fighter in everything he did.
AXPONA 2025 Show Report, Part 6: AirTight, Reed & AXISS Audio

2 weeks ago | analogplanet.com | Julie Mullins

Welcome to Part 6 of my AXPONA 2025 show report series. You know, it’s generally a good sign to enter a demo room where listeners are smiling and sitting at rapt attention. It’s even better to go in one and see a company rep/exec dancing about and headbanging to AC/DC. AirTight’s Yutaka (a.k.a. Jack) Miura was doing just that when I stopped by Room 1129.
AXPONA 2025 Show Report, Part 5: Treehaus Audiolab & SME

2 weeks ago | analogplanet.com | Julie Mullins

Hello and welcome to a new week, and to Part 5 of my AXPONA 2025 show report series. In addition to what I saw in the Monarch Systems Distribution setups in Room 434 in Part 4, I also came across another SME turntable, the Model 12 MKII, in the Treehaus Audiolab room (Room 1420), where it held court ahead of a stack of classic, old-school tube gear modeled after the spirit of traditional Japanese audio-design approaches.
Elton John & Brandi Carlile Collaborative Who Believes in Angels? LP Is a Somewhat Surprising SQ Winner on Tri-Color Vinyl

2 weeks ago | analogplanet.com | Mark Smotroff

Elton John & Brandi Carlile Collaborative Who Believes in Angels? LP Is a Somewhat Surprising SQ Winner on Tri-Color Vinyl By now you’ve probably heard the news that Elton John has paired up with Americana crossover phenomenon Brandi Carlile on their fine new Top 10 LP Who Believes in Angels?, which was released by Rocket/EMI on April 4, 2025. Given all the advance hype, we suspect some of you fence-sitters are probably wondering how the album actually sounds on vinyl.