I have been into music seriously since I was 5 years old and heard Joan Jett sing about how she loves rock 'n' roll on the radio. I have been hooked ever since. HI-FI seems to be a logical second step after developing a love for music. Sounds puritanical but it's what I think.
“This review has been a long, long, long time in the making,” writes Thad Aerts of this review of the Sonist Concerto 3 loudspeaker. While designed for use with single-ended triode (SET) amplifiers, Thad exercises it with the AMC hybrid push-pull amplifier. “They have the ability to seduce you away from what you are doing and get you to sit down in front of them to listen to music.”
“It is, hands down, the best tonearm I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing…. This tonearm is one of the few that are handmade specifically to meet the requirements of the cartridge that will be attached to them.” Thad Aerts continues his review of the Pete Riggle Engineering “The Woody” tonearm, with an update on the Anti-Skate Measurement System, and his listening impressions.
This past Monday, I capped off my evening by heading to downtown Lincoln’s Bourbon Theater to see Battles. The NYC (recently made) trio brought their brand of post math-rock (despised term, I’m sure) to Lincoln in support of their newest recorded offering Gloss Drop – which is out now on Warp. I’m not a huge [...]
In part one of his review, Thad Aerts discusses the design concepts and installation of Pete Riggle’s Stringtheory “Woody” tonearm. These attractive and cleverly simple tonearms are handmade specifically for each owner’s cartridge, and feature vertical tracking angle and azimuth adjustments as a record plays.