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Passos Brasileiros Toomai String Quintet

Jan 13, 2025 | positive-feedback.com | Stephen Francis Vasta

Passos Brasileiros, Toomai String Quintet, with assisting artists. Tocanta Media (CD). 53 minutes. Pascoal: Garrote. Villa-Lobos: Saudades das Selvas Brasilieras 1-2; Chôros 5 ("Alma Brasileira"). Gonzaga: Passos no Choro. Freire: Mamulengo; Espiral; Turbulenta; Pintou um Grilo. Nascimento: Cais. Gil: Domingo no Parque. Nogueira: Bachianinha 1. Lara: Força da Imaginação/Sonho Meu.
Los Angeles & the LAOC Audio Society

Jan 4, 2025 | positive-feedback.com | David Robinson

All components in BOLD are loaned; all components in standard face are owned by me. Last updated 07/15/2022LOUDSPEAKERSThe Vivid Audio Giya G1 Spirit Loudspeakers with YG Acoustics Rack, Gold Note P-1000 MKII Preamplifier (top shelf), Gold Note Tube-1012 Tubed Output Stage (second shelf), Wolf Audio Systems Alpha 3 SX Music Server (third shelf), Innuos PhoenixNET Ethernet Switch.
Music Hall Stealth Turntable

Jan 2, 2025 | positive-feedback.com | Ed Kobesky

01-02-2025 | By | Issue 137: January - February 2025 I threw everything but the kitchen sink at this relatively affordable Darth Vader-looking contraption in terms of upgrades. Not because it's bad, but rather, because it's very, very good. It sounds and feels more like a $2500 product than something priced at $1649, including cartridge. Could a few, well-chosen and easily installed swaps make it sound more like $3000 or $4000, for a fraction of the cost?
Schumann Symphony 4 - Positive Feedback

Nov 1, 2024 | positive-feedback.com | Stephen Francis Vasta

Schumann Symphony 4 (orig. vers.); Manfred Overture. Yun: Cello Concerto. Jaemin Han, cello; Korean National Symphony Orchestra/David Reiland. Decca Records (Korea). Downloads and streams: music.apple.com; plixid.net (FLAC 24/96); qobuz.com (16/44.1); spotify.com; uk.7digital.com (M4A, MP3, FLAC)Universal, the current parent company of Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, has been unusually unforthcoming about this particular production.
Goldring 1012GX Cartridge

Oct 26, 2024 | positive-feedback.com | Ed Kobesky

"They're boxy, but they're good." That was the slogan coined for Volvo cars by Dudley Moore's unhinged ad exec in the mediocre 1990 movie farce, Crazy People, which imagined what might happen if marketers started writing painfully honest ads. Regarding Goldring's $549 1012GX, I couldn't help but think along the same lines: looks old fashioned, sounds awesomely modern. After all, the looks of the 1000 series cartridges haven't changed in decades.
Gem Dandy PolyTable Signature

Oct 21, 2024 | positive-feedback.com | Juan Ayllon

My eyes welled with tears staring at a glorious reproduction of Edgar Degas' painting, The Orchestra at the Opera, in a massive book in the reference section of the University of California, Riverside Library. As an art student in 1990, I was overwhelmed by the virtuosity, draftsmanship, rhythmic composition, and sheer beauty of a bassoonist—captured in vivid detail performing with orchestra members in a packed pit, with spotlighted ballerinas dancing above.
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Oct 18, 2024 | positive-feedback.com | Dave Clark

I am not a music reviewer. Never done that before as I never saw that as something I could do with respect to being faithful to the artist and their music. Pretty much a whole different thing than reviewing audio gear. Of which, that is hard enough. But, out of nowhere I get an album in the mail.
Roger Eno, the skies:rarities

Oct 14, 2024 | positive-feedback.com | Gary Lea

Roger Eno, the skies:rarities. 2024. Desutche Grammaphon. Available HEREAs I am shifting away from 24 years of equipment reviews and focusing more and more on sharing music I find, I was recently afforded the opportunity to listen to a wonderful new album by Roger Eno. The album is titled the skies:rarities available on Deutsche Grammaphon. Yes that is spelled correctly. My copy happened to be a promo copy. I got an introduction to the music via a pre-release download and then later on with this vinyl.
GoldenEar T66 Loudspeaker

Oct 14, 2024 | positive-feedback.com | Michael Zisserson

This is not 1999 anymore. Flash forward 25 years and most loudspeakers from any reputable manufacturer are far more than a few speaker drivers in a cabinet with basic filtering. The finest loudspeaker companies are leveraging advancements in materials, complex software, precision manufacturing practices, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), finite element analysis (FEA), and a whole cornucopia of other modern design tools to take their products into the future.
Audiophile Economics (Part 1)

Oct 10, 2024 | positive-feedback.com | Roger Skoff

Roger Skoff, a portrait, Orange County, CA, 2023 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson)Roger Skoff writes about why things cost what they doLike everything else, the cost of HiFi gear has escalated over the last few years. Some might say that that's just because the whole world is caught in an inflationary spiral and, to an extent they might even be right. With HiFi, though, there are other factors to consider, and they may be far more important overall.