July 1, 2020

Mikio Hasui: Renaissance Hifi for a New Age

Where Earth meets the sky is a transitional plane of both stark and subtle light play, much like the body of work Japanese photographer Mikio Hasui has produced in the last four decades straddling both the analog and digital realms.
July 30, 2020
Anatomy of a Review

Anatomy of a Review: Flawed journals recollecting an individual’s experience

Product reviews are not scientific documents, they are flawed journals recollecting an individual's experience.
December 18, 2020

Review: Gold Note DS-10 Headphone Amplifier and Network DAC

Headamp/DAC/Streamers like the Gold Note DS-10 reveal that there is less light falling between integrated options in the $3k range and higher-priced separates than previously thought.
August 7, 2022

SUT: The Moving Coil Step Up Transformer

Black magic. Voodoo. These are the usual replies when asked what’s inside one of the small silver boxes kept near my turntable. The answer doesn’t stray too far from the truth, because the passive step-up transformer, or SUT, offers such a marked increase in the level of performance from an moving-coil cartridge as to be considered supernatural.