Jason Victor Serinus

Enough Mozart for a Lifetime In a Single Box

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 30, 2016

In honor of the 225th anniversary of Mozart's death at the age of 35, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation have together issued a whopping 24-lb box of recordings and commentary called Mozart 225. Billed as the most complete and authoritative edition of Mozart recordings ever assembled, the $480 box, in an edition limited to 15,000 copies worldwide, includes 200 CDs with 240 hours of music.

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An Expanded TAVES Opens Friday in Toronto

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 24, 2016

TAVES, which bills itself as "Canada's Ultimate Consumer Electronics Show," returns to Toronto's contiguous Sheraton Parkway Toronto North & Best Western Hotels October 2830. With over 120 exhibitors in toto, three quarters of which are either home system audio (approx. 6065) or personal/headphone audio, and close to 300 brands, the show has become one of the largest consumer audio shows in North America.

Jason Victor Serinus

C.F. Kip Winger: From Rock to Ballet in Hi-Rez

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 23, 2016

This release from VBI Classic Recordings, C.F. Kip Winger, is not only for all the rock'n'rollers amongst us, but also for lovers of classical music and ballet. That's because it showcases three ballet-inspired scores by the very same of C.F. Kip Winger who founded and lead the rock group, Winger. He's also the same Kip Winger who played bass with Alice Cooper from 19851987, and performed and recorded with Alan Parsons, Roger Daltrey, and Bob Dylan.

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AudioQuest Warns of Counterfeit DragonFly^®s

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 22, 2016

Friday, October 21, Irvine, CA-based high-end audio manufacturer AudioQuest issued a warning about what appears to be low-priced, inferior-sounding counterfeits of its discontinued AudioQuest DragonFly v1.2. The matter was brought to AudioQuest's attention by a consumer who saw a thread on Reddit about a product that resembled the discontinued DragonFly 1.2's proprietary technical features. The real DragonFly is pictured above right with the subject of the Reddit thread on the left.

RMAF 2016

RMAF 2016: An Assessment

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 14, 2016

All good things must come to an end

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RMAF 2016: One, Two, Three…Go

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 14, 2016

Did Ted Denney really start out my listening with "Hotel California"?

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RMAF 2016: Wilson Premiere (and Other Delights)

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 14, 2016

At an hour-long Saturday-afternoon press event, jointly sponsored by Wilson and VTL, John Atkinson and I joined others to hear Wilson Audio's Peter McGrath introduce Yvette

RMAF 2016