Ken Kessler

Ken Kessler  |  Oct 25, 2022  |  Published: Jun 01, 1993  |  0 comments
hfnvintageAn old circuit with a modern look versus a new design with retro styling as Ken Kessler hears valve amps from Papworth and Sonic Frontiers

Contrary to the practices of most specialist companies, some still believe that small is beautiful. Despite the continuing displays of excess from across the Pond, enough manufacturers realise that the only way to get quality sound into certain homes is to 'down-size'.

Ken Kessler  |  Sep 27, 2022  |  0 comments
This month we review: Carole King, Andy Bey, Jamiroquai and John McLaughlin.
Ken Kessler  |  Sep 27, 2022  |  0 comments
This month, we review: The Mothers, The Church, Marianne Faithfull With Warren Ellis and Foxfeather.
Ken Kessler  |  Sep 16, 2022  |  Published: Dec 01, 2001  |  0 comments
hfnvintageLooks like valves, smells like valves, uses transistors – Ken Kessler hears 100W of single-ended MOSFET power from the pen of Tim de Paravicini

Statement amps are nothing new to Tim de Paravicini, his original EAR 509s and 549s hardly being minor projects. Neither were the first amps to bear the Yoshino names, a pair of designs showing that single-ended topology could be applied to both valves and transistors. But the latter, while Tim was able to voice it to ape the tubes, ran just as hot as the valves, and proved just as inefficient as all single-ended designs are known to be, so why bother? Damned if I know, for Tim's latest is a huge mutha of a single-ended amp... and it's solid-state.

Ken Kessler  |  Aug 29, 2022  |  0 comments
This month we review: Joe Jackson, Jackson Browne, Quincy Jones and Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns.
Ken Kessler  |  Aug 29, 2022  |  0 comments
This month, we review: Gabriel Mervine, The Band, Keb' Mo' and Judee Sill.
Ken Kessler  |  Aug 19, 2022  |  0 comments
hfnvintageKen Kessler explains why he believes Audio Research's Reference 1 preamp and Reference 600 power amplifiers are in a class of their own

Whatever your response to once-in-a-generation revelations, the Audio Research Reference 600 monoblock amplifiers and the matching Reference 1 preamp will render all who hear them something akin to 'gob-smacked'.

Ken Kessler  |  Aug 01, 2022  |  0 comments
This month we review: Miles Davis, The Dave Clark Five, Madness and Joni Mitchell.
Ken Kessler  |  Aug 01, 2022  |  0 comments
This month, we review: Otis Taylor, Garth Hudson, The Waterboys and Aleksey Revenko.
Ken Kessler  |  Jun 30, 2022  |  0 comments
This month we review: Janis Joplin, The O'Jays, Buck Owens and Sly & The Family Stone.

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