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The new aether
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CALENDAR OF INDUSTRY EVENTS
INDUSTRY UPDATE • AUDIO NEWS & VIEWS
OMA’s K3 direct-drive turntable and custom Schröder tonearm
The RAAL-requisite HSA-1b headphone and speaker amplifier
Stereophile PRESENTS RECOMMENDED RC2021 COMPONENTS
HOW TO USE THE LISTING • The classes each cover a wide range of performance. Carefully read our descriptions here, the original reviews, and (heaven forbid) reviews in other magazines to put together a short list of components to choose from. Evaluate your room, your source material and front-end(s), your speakers, and your tastes. With luck, you may come up with a selection to audition at your favorite dealer(s). “Recommended Components” will not tell you what to buy any more than Consumer Reports would tell you whom to marry. Heaven forbid.
SPECIFICATIONS
Stenheim Alumine Three • LOUDSPEAKER
MEASUREMENTS
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
SPECIFICATIONS
Cambridge Audio EVO 150 • ALL-IN-ONE PLAYER
MEASUREMENTS
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
SPECIFICATIONS
KLH Model Five • LOUDSPEAKER
MEASUREMENTS
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
SPECIFICATIONS
Antipodes Audio K50 • MUSIC SERVER
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
SPECIFICATIONS
Dirac Live 3 • ROOM-CORRECTION SOFTWARE
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
DIRAC LIVE BASS CONTROL
HI-FI LO-FI • 20 YEARS OF THE BEST-SOUNDING INDIE ROCK
George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass
RECORDING OF THE MONTH
GRATEFUL DEAD • Grateful Dead
SCRITTI POLITTI • Cupid & Psyche 85
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS • Tiny Music … Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
VICTORIA • Officium hebdomadae sanctae
TRIO MEDIÆVAL • Solacium
IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE • Northscapes
ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR • Enigma
NINA SIMONE • The Montreux Years
DMITRY BAEVSKY • Soundtrack
DAVID HELBOCK • The New Cool
ROY HARGROVE/MULGREW MILLER • In Harmony
Getting your hi-fi fix(ed)
MANUFACTURERS’ COMMENTS
Lou Reed’s dirty boulevard of dreams