features

features
9 Steve Hoffman Selects:
Get Off The Couch:
15
Fresh McIntosh Gear — The MC275
( on the cover )
82
Colleen Cardas Gives Us Sailing Lessons
20 The Vinyl Anachronist:
Old School:
25
Darrell Grant
27
Bill Conrad and Lew Johnson’s
82
Marc Phillips
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Components
A Legendary Workhorse
The Audible Illusions Modulus 2 Preamplifier
Jazz Pianist
talks about
his inspiration with Norwood Brown
Magic Bus: The Conrad-Johnson ART3
15
27
6. NEW CONTRIBUTORS
7. PUBLISHE R’ S LE TTER
8. TONE TOON
— Liza Donnelly
9
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music/media
34. Classical Music A to Z
— Dan Babineau
42. KISSology and My Generation
— Christina Kratzman
34
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46. Club Mix: Does Music Repeat
Itself Like History? — Scott Tetzlaff
50.
Tone On Tour:
Jeff and Steve Meet and Greet
53. Blues You Can Use — Irv Gross
57. Video Killed The Radio Star:
The State of Music Video Television
— Joe Golfen
63.
Six Head-banging Favorites
— Jerold O’Brien
67.
Book Report:
This Is Your Brain On Music
69. Current Classics: Three Modern
Sonatas and Bach’s Works for
Trumpet? — Dan Babineau
72. From the UK to the US
— Nicole Rice
77.
Audiophile Pressings: The Japanese
Experience from Eastwind Import
— Jeff Dorgay
72
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114
reviews
108
187.
DeVore Fidelity
Gibbon Super 8 Speakers
192.
AV123 Strata Mini Speakers
198.
Penaudio Charisma Speakers
103.
Sehring S704 SE Speakers
109.
The Harbeth HL-P3ES-2
Classic British Monitors, Reinvented
— Joe Nino-Hernes
120
127
114.
The Aurum Acoustics CDP
System Integration at Its Finest
120.
Peak Consult Princess Floorstander
127.
Headphone Planet:
The Meier Corda Opera Amp and
The Cardas Headphone Cable
133.
Short Takes: Tubes.Tubes.Tubes.
138.
Slummin’ Audio on the Cheap!
140.
Where to Find What You’ve
Seen In TONE
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