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8 TONE AUDIO NO.53 28 ©Photo by David McClister music 16. LIVE MUSIC: David Byrne & St. Vincent By John Darko Leni Stern By Jeff Dorgay 24. SPIN THE BLACk CIRCLE: Reviews of New Pop/Rock and Country Albums By Bob Gendron, Andy Downing, Todd Martens, and Chrissie Dickinson 56. CLASSIC ALBUM SUNDAYS: Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy By Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy 64. CLUB MIx: Dada Life, and Steve Aoki By Connor Willemsen 76. AUDIOPHILE PRESSINgS: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Joni Mitchell 126. JAzz & BLUES: Wayne Shorter Quartet, and Miles Davis Quintet By Jim Macnie 64. Dada Life The Rules of Dada gear previews 146. Rega RP8 Turntable 148. Oppo BDP-103 and BDP-105 disc players 150. Thorens TD-125 Turntable, Rebuilt by Vinyl Nirvana 152. Boulder 3050 Monoblocks gear reviews 154. PrimaLuna ProLogue Premium Stereo <strong>Power</strong> Amplifier By Jerold O’Brien 166. Penaudio Sinfonietta Loudspeaker By Rob Johnson 176. Simaudio Moon 88M Monoblocks A New Peak By Jeff Dorgay 188. Bob Carver Black Magic 20 Stereo Amplifier Small But Soulful By Andre Marc 200. Pass Labs XA 200.5 Monoblocks Further Evolution By Jeff Dorgay 212. Burmester 909 MK5 <strong>Power</strong> Amplifier By Jeff Dorgay web reviews 224. Meridian Explorer 226. Iriver Astell & Kern AK100 228. Slummin’ 233. Manufacturer Info. 188 200 March 2013 9
Zellaton Concert Holborne Analog 2 10 TONE AUDIO NO.53 Audioarts CH Precision D1 cd/sacd player CH Precision C1 DAC/PRE CH Precision A1 Amplifier Audioarts 210 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 212.260.2939 audioarts.co publisher’s letter It’s been a busy New Year, and I hope you’ve all settled in and have been keeping your New Year’s resolutions. I’d like to thank those of you who have joined our online community on Facebook. We are now the web’s most “liked” audio publication! This is thanks to major efforts by our gear editor, Bailey Barnard, our main headphone contributor, Michael Liang, and the handful of our advertisers that have helped us pull together some fun giveaways—a trend that will continue as we go forward. I hope these giveaways will help those of you lucky enough to win one of our prizes enjoy your music a little more in the months to come. For everyone else, we’ll keep bringing you new music and gear in every issue. For me, the best part of our growing online community is interacting with so many of our readers on a daily basis, and I appreciate the fact that you’re all keeping it civil. With so many flame wars erupting on the various Internet forums, I’m striving to keep the TONEAudio Facebook page a friendly place to hang out. If you want to argue about the merits of double-blind testing or why cables don’t matter, or insist on taking a poke at our counterparts on the staffs of other magazines, we will show you the door pretty quickly. Life’s too short to bicker about things like that. One topic that always creates a heated discussion is the cost of audio gear near the stratosphere, and this issue is chock-full of really high-priced amplifiers, including exceptional examples from Boulder, Burmester, Simaudio and Pass Labs. After spending time with the biggest, best and most expensive amplifiers these manufacturers can create, I’m spellbound by just how great recorded music can sound. As many of you know, I’m equally smitten with high-performance cars and motorcycles, worlds in which there’s a pet saying: “How fast can you afford to go?” Today, great components exist at all levels, but the amplifiers reviewed here are truly special products that reproduce music at a level beyond anything I’ve experienced. I realize that most of you aren’t in the market for a $205,000 pair of monoblocks, but part of our mission is to find great gear in every segment of the spectrum. We’ve got some great music for you to peruse in this issue, as well. We recently added a couple of new writers, who will be covering country and classical music, and have brought back our Club Mix column to celebrate electronica, ambient and EDM. Thank you again for reading. March 2013 11
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