Music Reviews

John E. Johnson, Jr.July 22, 2019

2L, a Norwegian music publisher, has made a reputation for exquisitely-recorded albums. Each album has several resolutions, including 24/192 stereo and seven-channel surround in 96 kHz sampling.

CD Music Reviews

A Collection Of New Vinyl For The Audiophile – April, 2019

Jason CrawfordApril 9, 2019

Gram Parsons, the nominal frontman of the early Flying Burrito Brothers band, was the living personification of a Cautionary Rock ’n Roll Tale.

Vinyl Music ReviewsVinyl Reviews

Astell & Kern KANN Digital Audio Player Review

Mel MartinMay 24, 2018

The Astell & Kern KANN is a feature packed high end digital audio player with superb sound and will drive just about any headphone

Audio Player Reviews

A Collection Of New Vinyl For The Audiophile – December, 2017

Jason CrawfordDecember 12, 2017

I’ve done a lot of bitching recently about the quality of new vinyl pressings, in general. I went on a bad run, same as the bad ones I’ve experienced in...

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IFA 2017: MQA Expands Global Reach On Smartphone, Portable Devices & Music Services

SecretsAugust 31, 2017

Music technology company, MQA, announces a breadth of partnership news at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. Developed for convenient delivery...

Press

A Collection Of New Vinyl For The Audiophile – June, 2017

Jason CrawfordJune 6, 2017

It chaps my ass to know that Music Matters Jazz has come to the end of their run. It’s like watching Bo Jackson’s football career being cut short or imagining Michael Jordan retiring after just three championships. To my ears, everything that Music Matters released...

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A Collection Of New Vinyl For The Audiophile – April, 2017

Jason CrawfordApril 4, 2017

I grew up, for the most part, in Augusta, Georgia. It recently turned up near the top of a list of the least happy cities in the USA. Hardy and the Hardk...

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MQA and Universal Music Group to Collaborate on Advancing Hi-Res On-Demand Streaming

SecretsFebruary 17, 2017

Hi-Res Audio Movement Gains Significant Momentum LONDON AND SANTA MONICA, FEBRUARY 16, 2017 – Music technology company MQA and Universal Music Group (UMG), t...

Press

An inside look at the “King of Instruments”: A tour of the Kotzschmar Organ in Portland, Maine

Jim MiltonSeptember 7, 2016

How do we judge whether our stereo systems produce sound that rivals the “real” thing? Hopefully, it is because we visit actual, live music events or concerts. ...

Tours, Interviews and Book Reviews

JJ’s Now-and-Then Blog: Music (on discs) Releases from 2L that have Auro-3D Encoding

John E. Johnson, Jr.May 9, 2016

Now that Auro-3D is a codec that is showing up in receivers, it would be nice to know where to get discs...

Blogs & Little Things

A Collection of New Vinyl for the Audiophile – February, 2016

Jason CrawfordFebruary 9, 2016

It’s Truckers time again, y’all. They released a live album on vinyl a couple of years back, and it’s a pretty precise document of what the band did on stage… in the year 2000. They were gut bucket powerful. Punk rockers...

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A Collection of New Vinyl for the Audiophile – January, 2016

Jason CrawfordJanuary 13, 2016

I’m not sure how I whiffed on the Nirvana catalog as issued by ORG Music a while back. They did everything right. They were mastered for vinyl from the original analog master tapes at Bernie Grundman and pressed at Pallas in Germany back when Pallas...

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Little Things: Music and the Apple Watch

Reader SubmissionDecember 21, 2015

Granted, the Apple Watch is not cheap. It's definitely not essential to listening to your music. But if you have the money, it's a next step towards that economy of motion that we're ultimately...

Reader Reviews

Optimize Your WiFi Network to Stream Music Over AirPlay

Jay HaiderNovember 11, 2015

Apple's AirPlay technology streams music losslessly over a home network. But AirPlay only works as well as the underlying network allows. This article will help you optimize your WiFi network to stream music over AirPlay.

Technical Reviews

Pono Portable Music Player Review

Rick SchmidtFebruary 9, 2015

We've been waiting for the PonoPlayer for a long, long time. Neil Young was first pitching this thing on Letterman in 2012. The kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly 15x the initial goal of $800,000 ended on Tax Day 2014 with delivery promised by October.

Portable Audio