Audiophilia

Founded in 1997 and overseen by Anthony Kershaw, Audiophilia has become a leading online magazine for audio and music journalism. Anthony, a highly regarded classical musician from Canada, has showcased his talents as a flutist and conductor with some of the top ensembles across Europe and North America. He studied at Trinity College of Music in London on a Commonwealth Scholarship, where he was honored with the Chamber Music Prize—presented by Sir Yehudi Menuhin—and the Guild Prize for being the best wind player at the conservatoire.

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The Compact Disc is back! — Audiophilia

3 weeks ago | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

And I mean fully back with a vengeance. Everybody loves a comeback story, and in the CD’s return, we have a good one. For some music lovers and audiophiles, the CD remains a staple. However, many consigned their CD players to the bottom rack and the software to boxes in the darkest corner of their music room’s closet. The perch of the once shiny, sexy CD player taken over by even sexier turntables, DACs and the nail in the CD’s coffin, or, so we thought, the Network Streamer.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams“–Michael Tilson Thomas & Boston Symphony/DG The Original Source vinyl reissue [2025] — Audiophilia

1 month ago | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

This classic DG Boston recording was one of the first classical LPs I purchased with my “pocket money” from the famous “The Coop” in Harvard Square during one of my many visits to family in Boston. It was released in 1971, and I listened to it incessantly concurrent with my love affair with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, especially its fabulous flute section—I had begun playing the flute a year earlier. I was already set on becoming a professional player, god willing.
SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata, etc. ROSTROPOVICH/ESOTERIC SACD [2025] — Audiophilia

2 months ago | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Schubert Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821Schumann Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102Debussy Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in D minorMstislav Rostropovich, VioloncelloBenjamin Britten, PianoProduct ID: ESSD-90303This very famous Decca was recorded by Ken Wilkinson and Gordon Parry in The Maltings, Snape, UK, in 1968 and released on Decca and London in October 1970. The Decca vinyl originals go for over $2000, the Londons less, but still over two hundred bucks.
Infigo Audio Method 4 High End Digital to Analog Converter — Audiophilia

2 months ago | audiophilia.com | Karl Sigman

Having recently reviewed the superb Infigo Audio Method IS-1 Cryogen Streamer, I continue onward here with a review of their high-end Method 4 Digital to Analog Converter (DAC), USD 35,000, which I had used, along with other DACs, in the Streamer review. Hans Looman (CEO/Founder of Infigo Audio) kindly sent this expensive DAC for review, along with the Streamer. It arrived inside a special three-level packing box for shipping a Method 4, well wrapped in a silk cloth.
Infigo Audio Streamer Model IS-1 (Croyogen version) — Audiophilia

Mar 3, 2025 | audiophilia.com | Karl Sigman

Estimates today show that a worldwide figure is closing in on 1 billion streaming music users, which is expected to double in several years.
American Sketches—Kristin Lee, violin/FHR CD — Audiophilia

Feb 15, 2025 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

I receive between ten to fifteen emails a week from excited PR folks telling me about their latest boutique CD release of a star performer playing all matter of repertoire. Some of it is really “out there”. As the major record companies recede into relative classical obscurity, the recorded legacy of many gifted young players examining varied repertoire continues to grow. Hope. The email introducing American Sketches seemed intriguing—interesting, unusual repertoire played by a young violinist.
Katy Lied—Steely Dan/Analogue Productions UHQR 45 RPM vinyl reissue — Audiophilia

Feb 3, 2025 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Well, here it is. It's the UHQR remaster from Analogue Productions that Steely Dan fans have been waiting for but worried about. The worry? The original 1975 ABC Records recording, encoded with dbx, has never had the reputation of the band’s other great recordings like Aja and Gaucho.
Vivaldi in London/Interpreti Veneziani/Chasing The Dragon Audiophile Recordings/Direct to Disc vinyl — Audiophilia

Jan 24, 2025 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Vivaldi in London is the 2024 follow-up recording to Chasing The Dragon’s 2018 release, Vivaldi in Venice. Venice was a standard live recording, but London gets special treatment, Direct to Disc.
Soular Energy: The Ray Brown Trio—Concord Jazz/Analogue Productions 45 RPM 2LP Reissue [2024] — Audiophilia

Nov 6, 2024 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

This 2024 45 RPM double album from Analogue Productions was gifted to me by Jack Graham of Straight Talk with Jack Graham. He was very impressed with this new pressing of Ray Brown’s great 1984 album and wanted me to hear it and review it for Audiophilia. I’ll try to do justice to your generous gift, Jack. The original recording on Concord Jazz is from 1984. Brown enlisted Gene Harris on piano and Gerryck King on drums to fill out a trio.
Analog Relax EX1000 MC Phono Cartridge — Audiophilia

Nov 1, 2024 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Expectations were high. On the way to the island was a fairly new analog component—the Analog Relax EX1000 MC Phono Cartridge—a heavy hitter by price and reputation. The EX1000 is a handmade wood-body cartridge from Japan, priced at an eye-watering USD 17,750. Analog Relax is a Japanese artisanal company manufacturing a line of moving coil cartridges and analog accessories. The company was founded by Yasushi Yurugi in 2016. It is manufactured under the auspices of Zoot Communications.