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Punk rock’s wild gift

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LETTERS • FEEDBACK TO THE EDITOR

CALENDAR OF INDUSTRY EVENTS

INDUSTRY UPDATE • AUDIO NEWS & VIEWS

Two at the Top

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something Blue.

Karan Acoustics Master Collection POWERa Mono • MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER

MEASUREMENTS

Moon by Simaudio Voice 22 • LOUDSPEAKER

MEASUREMENTS

Mastersound Compact 845 • INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

MEASUREMENTS

Arvus H2-4D • 16-CHANNEL DIGITAL AUDIO RENDERER

MEASUREMENTS

Jay’s Audio CDT3-MK3 • CD TRANSPORT

MEASUREMENTS

MOJO MYSTIQUE X SE D/A PROCESSOR

JOHN DOE • FABLES OF THE POST-RECONSTRUCTION

Bob Meets Burt

Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations from 1981

In soul’s kitchen with Jaws and the Queen

TYSHAWN SOREY TRIO + 1 • The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism

ALEXANDER MELNIKOV • Fantasie: 7 Composers, 7 Keyboards

NIELSEN • Symphonies 2 (The Four Temperaments), 6 (Sinfonia semplice)

R. STRAUSS/DEBUSSY • Also sprach Zarathustra/Jeux

BEETHOVEN • Violin Concerto in D Major (cadenzas by Jörg Widmann); Fragment from Violin Concerto in C Major

BOBO STENSON TRIO • Sphere

KIRSTEN EDKINS • Shapes and Sound

FRANCO AMBROSETTI • Nora

WALTER SMITH III • return to casual

JOHN LEE HOOKER • Burnin’

PARAMORE • This Is Why

NEW ORDER • Low-Life (Definitive Edition)

YO LA TENGO • This Stupid World

Goodbye to gatekeeping

MANUFACTURERS’ COMMENTS

A masterpiece as it is painted