Audio Note UK DAC and Cabling, Acapella Audio Arts Music Server, Integrated Amplifier, Loudspeakers and Cabling, HRS Equipment Rack

Click:electronics pcbStaged by Cornelia and Michael Davis, the beautiful Audio Federation assemblage consisted of the Acapella Audio One music server ($6875), Audio Note UK DAC Five Signature ($98,355), Acapella LaMusika integrated amplifier ($110,000), new 93” tall, 450 lb. Acapella Audio Arts Campanile 2 loudspeakers with an updated spherical horn midrange (95dB at 8 ohms, $66,500/pair),…

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The American Sound Rooms: Wadax Electronics, Avantgarde Loudspeakers, Transparent Cabling

Click:Beach ShoesAmerican Sound distribution presented three rooms featuring Avantgarde horn loudspeakers, and, in the two rooms I visited, Wadax digital products. This was the U.S. debut of Wadax’s much-talked-about flagship, the Atlantis, the company’s all-out assault on the state of the digital art. If looks are any measure, the Atlantis was designed to compete with…

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Wilson Unveils the Chronosonic XVX at Definitive Audio

Bellevue, Washington: On Wednesday and Thursday, Nov 13 and 14, Definitive Audio in Bellevue hosted multiple by-invitation showings of Wilson Audio’s just-unveiled Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker ($329,000/pair). Designed by Daryl Wilson, the XVX was envisioned as a smaller version of the late Dave Wilson’s magnum opus, the huge WAMM Master Chronosonic ($850,000/pair with Master Subsonic subwoofers)….

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Revinylization #1: The Burrito Brothers Fly Again

Think of the greatest commercial LPs made during the past 72 years: the Solti-Culshaw recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, Magda Tagliaferro’s D’ombre et de lumiere, Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, John Lennon’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, and a thousand or so others. Music lovers were able to buy those records…

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Learning Lennon: Guitar Master Bill Frisell

For the musically prolific, releasing too many records too close together can be problematic or worse. Just because you can make a record every week in your home studio doesn’t mean you should. The impulse to commit every golden thought and performance to tape without self-editing or even pausing to reflect screams narcissism run amok….

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