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WHEN I'M 84

THE WORLD STILL NEEDS RINGO STARR.

A WARNING OUT OF TIME

How autocrats create spheres of lawlessness

The New King of Tech

How Jensen Huang built Nvidia into a nearly $3 trillion business

Who Needs Intimacy?

Influential novelists are imagining what women's lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.

What Is Classical Music?

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

EVERYTHING WE ONCE BELIEVED IN

Trumpism has replaced conservatism's core values with just one: the raw pursuit of power.

THE HUNGARIAN MODEL

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he's left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

7 mins |

SPIN DOCTOR

Connected-Fidelity TT Hub Turntable and AFI FLAT.DUO record flattener and relaxer.

Ayre Acoustics KX-8

PREAMPLIFIER - For the past decade or so, I haven't been using a preamplifier. The D/A processors I have been using all have volume controls, so I have been feeding their outputs directly to the power amplifiers.

T+A Solitaire T

BLUETOOTH/WIRED HEADPHONES

THE WORLD PORN MADE

In 1999, the year I turned 16, there were three cultural events that seemed to define what it meant to be a young womana girl-facing down the new millennium.

THE HOLLOW MEN

It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.

AURAL ROBERT

Staying up on what's new in music ain't easy these days, in a world short on new record stores and long on websites, social media blather, and celebrity. Asked what he listens to when he's not writing music, fast-talking septuagenarian Ray Mason exudes a teenager's eager urgency.

4 mins |

What to Make of Miracles

In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus's most wondrous acts.

Canton Reference 5

Canton Elektronik GmbH is a family-owned manufacturer of loudspeakers based in Weilrod, Germany. Founded in 1972—the name is from Latin and German: “Can” from the Latin “cantare,” “to sing”; “Ton” from the German for “sound”—Canton is now well past its 50th anniversary. The largest manufacturer of perfectionist speakers in Germany, Canton is still based in the small township where it began, with manufacturing facilities in the Czech Republic.

Innuos ZENith Next-Gen

STREAMER-SERVER

The Anti-Rockwell

R. Crumb’ comics dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.

dCS Varèse Music System

JASON VICTOR SERINUS - D/A PROCESSOR

GRAMOPHONE DREAMS

Falcon and Lyra

The Making of Dwyane Wade

Basketball, and what comes after

JAMES FARBER

ASK THE AVERAGE JAZZ-LOVING AUDIOPHILE TO LIST HIS FAVORITE RECORDING ENGINEERS, AND SUCH ICONS AS RUDY VAN GELDER, ROY DUNANN, AND FRED PLAUT WOULD TOP THEIR LISTS. BUT IF YOU ASKED A HANDFUL OF CURRENT AND RECENT NEW YORK CITY JAZZ MUSICIANS TO CITE THEIR FAVORITES, ONE NAME WOULD LEAP TO THE FRONT OF THE PACK: JAMES ALLEN FARBER.

BRILLIANT CORNERS

Racks, cleaners, cables, resonators

TALES OF THE 21

Lethal Cold War icon

THE GOONEY TURNS 90

Still one of the most important transport aircraft of all time

HUNTING THE HUNTERS

Memories of a night intruder pilot

The Curtiss P-40 Came early and stayed late

The Curtiss P-40 was undoubtedly the most widely used Allied fighter of WW II.

1 min |

C3B The Original Stearman

WHEN THE NAME STEARMAN IS MENTIONED in aviation circles, the first thought that comes to mind is of the popular World War II PT-13, PT-17 and N2S biplane military primary training planes that introduced thousands of military pilots to flying.

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