This is the Audiophile Website of Arthur Salvatore

This website is dedicated exclusively with the reproduction of Music.

Now all the most recent updates are in one place:

AUDIO CRITIQUE

Audio Critique is my audio "journal", and will eventually be turned into a "blog". It is a venue for uncensored criticism and essays concerning the entire High-End Audio Industry. This section includes my audio philosophy, opinions and advice, plus a focus on the so-called "underground press".

First, there is a huge and thorough Reference Components List, which encompasses the entire history of high-end audio. It is the most popular section of this website. This formerly giant list has been converted into separate files for each component category.

After a large number of requests, I've started a Modification File, which will detail the many mods I've made on preamplifiers, amplifiers etc. over the last 25 years. This is a long-term project that will take a few years to complete, but there's already some useful information posted to it.

There is another list of around 300 of the best sounding LPs of all-time: The Supreme Recordings. In addition, within a number of separate classification files, is a description of each and every record. In total, these description files are the size of a novel! Finally, there's even a list of LPs entitled The Honorable Mentions, which includes numerous records, with one or more outstanding qualities, which almost make The Supreme Recordings.

Audio Critique is the most valuable and provocative part of the entire website. It offers a truly different outlook. It is meant to be a refuge for those readers who are bored and disgusted with the typical garbage, pabulum, "cheerleading" and politics they've repeatedly encountered in the print audio magazines and now even in their new relatives on the Internet.

If you are looking for substance, and a direct, uncompomising and critical attitude, you will find it here. The author has been an audiophile for more than 40 years, and an "insider" in the audio business for more than 20 years. For example, Reviewing the 'Reviewers' has become one of single most controversial audio columns on the Internet.

One sample...John Atkinson's editorial decisions over the last two decades have been seriously questioned, for instance: The HALCRO dm58 AMPLIFIERS-ANOTHER FAILURE OF INTEGRITY.

Atkinson, Michael Fremer and other 'reviewers', are unmasked and exposed in a manner unlike anything else ever seen in print, the Internet or otherwise, guaranteed. Using their own written words no less. The most recent column covers a variety of important issues: Stereophile's "Dangerous" June 2009 Issue.

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There are also a small variety of Vacuum Tubes for sale.

There is also a growing number of DIY sites, plus some obscure manufacturers which readers may find interesting. (I am not involved in any of the transactions.) I am always looking for more links that will help my readers find superior components and accessories at direct or wholesale prices.

"Music is more profound than Philosophy"-Beethoven