Little Feat: Sam’s Place Hot Tomato Productions (auditioned as CD). 2024. Little Feat, Charles A. Martinez, prods. Performance ***** Sonics ***** It has been 12…

Photo: D. Darr Sasha Matson: Good morning from Cooperstown, home of baseball. Do you follow baseball? Charles Lloyd: I played first base. I’m left-handed. Matson:…

It’s like hearing the name of an old friend and then seeing him, in your mind’s eye, as he was when you were both much…

Sometimes, I feel I’m two people. One, a card-carrying audiophile, is always looking for ways to optimize his enjoyment of multichannel music recordings, a purist…

I have reviewed several network-connected music servers in recent years, from Antipodes, Aurender, and NAD. All performed well but are relatively expensive, and their associated…

It’s always a jolting, life-renewing Ka-BLAM when a new experience shatters your preconceptions of the order of things. From the moment you realize your dad…

Osvaldo Golijov: Falling Out of Time The Silkroad Ensemble In a Circle Records ICR 017 (CD). 2020. Jeremy Flower, Jonny Gandelsman, prods.; Jody Elff, Kevin…

Among the electrically connected, the phrase short circuit induces panic and horrific images of tripped breakers, blown fuses, acrid blue smoke, and melted circuit boards.…

Ah, domesticity. Just when I had the reference system sounding better than ever, the husband decided to relocate his electric keyboard and music stand, which…

CH Precision’s P1 phono preamplifier, which I wrote about in the April 2017 issue, is not going back to its manufacturer. The longer I used…