The Art of vinyl at home: PTP Audio Solid9 and Solidsteel WS-5: Introductions Music and especially listening to music at home can become a rich and engaging social and cultural diet for all the family. We all have started our musical journeys from different points but we all arrive at the same destination, in our […]
British audio makers 2.0
Audio Quarterly outlines a snapshot of British audio soon to be reported on by the editorial team. AQ has from early publication in print back in 1997, some 24 years ago, set out to embrace and focus on well-designed and well-engineered British made audio. It was a natural direction as the UK has had throughout […]
Rogers LS3/5a Classic
Save the best for last Our German correspondent, Christian Bayer listens to the new Rogers LS3/5a model of the older Rogers LS3/5a model he fell in love with decade ago. His personal choice of the best speakers in the world is a little improved with new Panzerholz stands to boot. The best just got better. […]
Crafted Analogue: Acoustand Evolution Turntable
“Now’s the Time” was written in 1945, Parker’s audience would have understood. Equally, white racists probably wouldn’t have, and that would be no bad thing. Phil Brett, AQ AQ’s Jazz editor Phil Brett, wrote a special report linking the Civil Rights Movement and Jazz in the US. Historically artists such as Charlie Parker referenced the struggle for […]
American legends: VAC amplifiers and Von Schweikert loudspeakers
Christian Bayer, takes a music trip down memory lane for AQ as part of our series of articles on American Audio today. It’s legends time An audio match made in heaven: VAC amplifiers and Von Schweikert loudspeakers How do we define a legend? The Cambridge dictionary offers an explanation that fits our bill: “Someone very […]
Charlie Parker: The Savoy 10 inch LP Collection
AQ’s Jazz editor, Phill Brett raises the spirits in these dark times from the BeBop music of Charlie Parker, with mono recordings transcending the times from the 40s to our times today. great music, like all art and culture, can bring light to darkness, raise the spirits and to give hope This August, is the […]
VAC STATEMENT 452iQ Musicbloc: American icon in the making
VAC 452iQ MUSICBLOC AMP Audio enthusiasts and music lovers may ask themselves the existential question, why are we here? Fundamentally it is the pleasure, the emotional reward of music live or recorded. Our journey from the inception of AQ back in the late 90’s was to get a little closer to the sound of live […]