Volume IX·Issue 36·Summer 2026·Listening, slowly, since 2017
Section · 01

Reviews — slow,
considered, and
occasionally contrary.

We review equipment after we have lived with it for at least four weeks, often longer. We do not run buying guides. We rarely give scores. We do, on occasion, contradict the rest of the press, when our ears disagree with the consensus.

Recent reviews.

Vintage turntable
Turntable12 weeks · home use

An honest report on a 1979 idler-drive deck, restored properly.

Twelve weeks of daily listening to a turntable that, in stock form, most reviewers would not bother with.

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Bookshelf speakers
Speakers6 weeks · two rooms

Small speakers, large rooms — a fortnight of compromise.

What happens when you put a pair of well-regarded bookshelf monitors in a room they were never designed for.

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Cartridge close-up
CartridgeBlind listening

A budget moving-coil that out-performs three of its more expensive rivals.

Four cartridges in the same arm, eight weeks of blind comparison. The cheapest one won.

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