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Field Report: Magico S3 Loudspeaker • Don't Look Back

Thorens TD 124 DD Integrated Turntable and TP 124 Tonearm • Swiss Precision Redivivus via Germany

Linn Majik LP12 Turntable, Krane Tonearm, and Adikt Cartridge • A Classic Miss

YG Acoustics Tor • For a Song

Tidal Piano G3 • Great Things in Smaller Packages

Acora SRB • Uncompromising

Living Voice Auditorium R25A • 25 Years in the Making

Stella(r) Sound! • Focal Stella Utopia EM Evo Loudspeaker

Electromagnetic Drive in the Stella Utopia EM • The following is the sidebar from my 2011 review of the first-generation Focal Stella Utopia EM explaining the electromagnetically driven woofer. —Robert Harley

Siltech Royal Double Crown Cables • Superlative Performance

Furutech Pure Power 6 NCF AC Distributor • Stranger Things

Manufacturer Comments

Farewell to a Guitar King • Jeff Beck, June 24, 1944—January 10, 2023

New Classical Recordings on Vinyl • Fresh Approaches to an Old Tradition

Total Immersion • New Multichannel Mixes from Pink Floyd and Franco Ambrosetti

Trumpeter on Fire • Freddie Hubbard Shines on New Mosaic Compilation

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Q&A • Scot Markwell President, Elite AV