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The four Hana cartridges reviewed here (EL, EH, SL, SH) are designed and manufactured by Excel Sound Corporation of Japan. According to its website, this 45-year-old company has more than 50 years of cartridge-making experience, much of it OEM work for...

Rarefied air. That kind of sums up the Japanese house of Air Tight for me. The Osaka-based bespoke electronics manufacturer celebrated its 30th anniversary last April, which is no small feat for an esoteric tube amplification-based company. I’m sure...

Interview & Photos by Eilon Paz I ntroducing London-based collector Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy: the woman behind Classic Album Sundays, a self-proclaimed “audio diva,” a mom, and a lover of cosmic-disco. Colleens’ CAS listening sessions take place...

Bob Dylan — folk singer, American national poet, enigma — is the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. The announcement was a surprise. Dylan had long been regarded as having an outside shot at the prize, but after a short run of writers virtually...

Reposted from My Music Masterclass. Getting Ahead in the Music Business…The Right Way   (because online tools can only do so much)   I decided to write this article after reading a post in a musician group yesterday. The post said...