Joseph Audio’s immaculate Perspective loudspeaker is featured on the July issue’s cover and is treated to an in-depth review from John Atkinson. Revel’s superb Performa F208 tower speaker is also featured this month, along with the Classic reissue of Phase Technology’s best-selling PC-60 bookshelf. Art Dudley tries out the sound of DSD files with Luxman’s DA-06 processor, while radically different, ididosyncratic amplifiers from Miyajima in Japan and LFD in England are put under the aural spotlight.
Michael Lavorgna kicks off his “Audio Streams” column with a listen to Bluesound’s WiFi streaming products; Kal Rubinson tries miniDSP’s latest room-correction processor; July’s “Recording of the Month” is Texas Hurricane, Analogue Productions’ excellent compilation on 331⁄3rpm or 45rpm LP and SACD, of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s studio albums; while Steve Guttenberg kicks off the issue by predicting that the market for physical media—music, movies, books, publications—will shrink to a size you could drown in a bathtub and wondering if the LP will be the last physical medium standing.
