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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Infigo Audio Streamer Model IS-1 (Croyogen version) — Audiophilia

1 month ago | 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

2 months ago | 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

2 months ago | 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.
Maurizio Pollini—Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28/DG The Original Source vinyl reissue — Audiophilia

Oct 21, 2024 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)The great Pollini’s famous DG recording of Chopin’s Preludes, Op. 28 (recorded in Munich’s Herkulessaal in 1972 and released in 1975), has been remastered (AAA) for LP by the Emil Berliner Studios for DG’s now celebrated Original Source vinyl series and was released a few weeks ago. Optimal printed 3400 copies. I received mine next-day delivery from Amazon.ca (CAD 66)—it was flat and silent.
Alta Audio Aphrodite Speakers — Audiophilia

Sep 29, 2024 | audiophilia.com | Karl Sigman

Some years ago, in 2016, Alta Audio came out with a floor-standing loudspeaker that deeply affected me due to its ability to cast a vast, life-like soundstage with intricate pinpoint accuracy in the imaging while keeping an intimate overall sound. It was called the Titanium Hestia, after the Greek Goddess “of the hearth, the home and family,” weighing about 140 lbs and costing USD 32,000 a pair.
Beethoven Quartets, Vol. 2: Middle String Quartets—Calidore String Quartet/Signum Classics 3 CD set — Audiophilia

Sep 4, 2024 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

Release date is September 13, 2024. Catalogue number: SIGCD872Barcode: 635212087220Signum ClassicsBeethovencame to the string quartet format quite late. Much like the first of his symphonies, piano concertos and piano sonatas, the first quartets were sketched when he was 25. He was well aware of the qualities his acquaintance Mozart and his teacher Joseph Haydn brought to the string quartet form. He wanted his first works to be in their exalted company.
Pure Fidelity Symphony Turntable — Audiophilia

Aug 31, 2024 | audiophilia.com | Anthony Kershaw

I believe the debut of a high-end audio manufacturer’s benchmark product is usually a reason for celebration. A turntable is doubly so, especially from a leading manufacturer like Vancouver’s Pure Fidelity Turntables. Owner/designer John Stratton asked me to judge his prototype turntable some years back. It was an excellent debut turntable, full of sonic goodness, great looks and exceptional value.