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Standard Resolution 19MB The e-journal of analog and digital sound. no.24 2009 NOTHING BUT ANALOG! MoMA’s New York Clearaudio, Lyra, Air Tight and More NEW Punk Exhibit Grateful Dead Book By Ben Fong-Torres STYLE: We Ride Ducati’s Newest Supermotard At Indy! Box Sets: AC/DC and Thelonius Monk Perreaux Returns to the US Bob Gendron Goes To NYC to View Punk’s Past at MoMA TONE A 1 NO.24 2 0 0 9 PUBLISHER Jeff Dorgay EDITOR Bob Golfen ART DIRECTOR Jean Dorgay r MUSIC EDITOR Ben Fong-Torres ASSISTANT Bob Gendron MUSIC EDITOR M USIC VISIONARY Terry Currier STYLE EDITOR Scott Tetzlaff C O N T R I B U T I N G Tom Caselli WRITERS Kurt Doslu Anne Farnsworth Joe Golfen Jesse Hamlin Rich Kent Ken Kessler Hood McTiernan Rick Moore Jerold O’Brien Michele Rundgren Todd Sageser Richard Simmons Jaan Uhelszki Randy Wells UBER CARTOONIST Liza Donnelly ADVERTISING Jeff Dorgay WEBSITE bloodymonster.com Cover Photo: Blondie, CBGB’s. 1977. Photograph by Godlis, Courtesy Museum of Modern Art Library tonepublications.com Editor Questions and Comments: [email protected] 800.432.4569 © 2009 Tone MAGAZIne, LLC All rights reserved. TONE A 2 NO.24 2 0 0 9 55 (on the cover) MoMA’s Punk Exhibit features Old School: 1 0 The Audio Research SP-9 By Kurt Doslu Journeyman Audiophile: 1 4 Moving Up The Cartridge Food Chain By Jeff Dorgay The Grateful Dead: 29 The Sound & The Songs By Ben Fong-Torres A BLE Home Is Where The TURNta 49 FOR Record Player Is EVERYONE By Jeff Dorgay Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: 55 MoMA’s New York Punk Exhibit By Bob Gendron Budget Gear: 89 How Much Analog Magic Can You Get for Under $100? By Jerold O’Brien by Ben Fong-Torres, published by Chronicle Books 7. NEW CONTRIBUTORS 8. PUBLISHER’S LETTER 29 9. TONE TOON The Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead Scrapbook By Liza Donnelly TONE A 3 NO.24 2 0 0 9 ©Herb Greene from tone style The Leica M9: The Pinnacle Of 66 Photographic Excellence By Jeff Dorgay The Ducati Hypermotard 1100 72 The Music of Speed By Jenny Smith Furutech’s Monza LP Stabilizer 77 Perfect Weight and Size 72 By Jeff Dorgay Furutech’s Silver Arrows 78 Tonearm Cable True Improvement By Jeff Dorgay Furutech’s LaSource 79 Cartridge Wires Fun Five Minute Upgrades By Jeff Dorgay The Clearaudio Strobe 80 Spot-On Speed Correction By Jeff Dorgay Clearaudio’s Weight Watcher 82 A Weight Program You Can Stick With By Jeff Dorgay 66 TONE A 4 NO.24 2 0 0 9 music 18. LIVE MUSIC: The TONE Staff Covers Alice In Chains, The Derek Trucks Band, Mott The Hoople, Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt, and Wilco 37. CUrreNT RELEAses: Fresh Releases in the Pop/Rock World By the TONE Staff 52. CLUB MIX: Selections from the Six Degrees Catalog By Scott Tetzlaff 62. AUDIOPHILE RecOrdINGS: Thelonius Monk, Stanley Turrentine, Frank Sinatra, Michael Brecker and More By Jeff Dorgay 18 Lyle Lovett Charms Portland Pg. 52 New Music From Club Mix with help from John Hiatt TONE A 5 NO.24 2 0 0 9 previews 92. Burmester’s 911 mk.3 93. KEF’s XQ 20’s 94. The YG Acoustics ANAT II’s reviews 82 . Headphone Planet By Bailey S. Barnard 95. Rega P5 - Plug and Play Analog By Rich Kent 101. Air Tight PC-1 Supreme Cartridge By Jacob Heilbrunn 104. Manley Steelhead RC By Jeff Dorgay 95 111. Conrad-Johnson’s TEA2 By Randy Wells 116. Two Top Cartridges for Mono Lovers By Lawrence Devoe 121. Audio Research SP-17 By Jeff Dorgay 127. Shunyata’s Aurora Interconnects and Stratos SP Speaker Cable By Jeff Dorgay 133. The Shelter 901 II Cartridge By Jeff Dorgay 137. Perreaux Éloquence 150i Integrated Amp By Steve Guttenberg 142. The Clearaudio DaVinci Cartridge By Jeff Dorgay 146. SimAudio’s Moon LP 5.3 with Psx 5.3 By Jeff Dorgay 150. The Soundsmith Voice Cartridge By Jeff Dorgay 101 153. SLUMMIN’ Classics on the cheap 154. Manufacturers Index TONE A 6 NO.24 2 0 0 9 CONTRIBUTORS new in tone this issue BAILEY S. BARNArd JACOB HeILBRUNN Bailey was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Jacob Heilbrunn lives in Washington, DC, where he is Area. For the past two years he has served as the mu- a senior editor at the National Interest, a foreign policy sic, home electronics, and personal technology editor magazine. He also writes regularly for The New York for Robb Report magazine, a Malibu, California–based Times and the Huffington Post as well as contributing luxury lifestyle publication that has afforded him access to The Absolute Sound. His interest in all things audio to some of the best hi-fi gear on the market. dates back to his childhood, listening to 10" Jelly Roll Morton LPs while munching on peanut butter and jelly He has played music since the age of six, when he be- sandwiches during lunch hour. He studied trumpet at gan taking piano lessons. He quickly became bored with Oberlin College before plunging into the political fray. the piano and moved on to drums at age ten. He began His book They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the playing guitar and writing music in high school and has Neocons appeared in 2008 and was named one of the since maintained amateur status as a recording artist, 100 best books of the year by The New York Times. having also performed at a number of small venues in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas. When he’s JENNY SMITH not slaving away at the next great American novel, Bailey can be found at a few select pool halls in West Jenny Smith lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, home of Los Angeles. the famous brickyard. She is the national marketing manager for Naim Audio in the US and is a passionate STEVE GUTTENBerG motorcyclist. Who better for us to recruit to test drive the new Ducati Supermotard 1100 during the MotoGP race Doesn’t like being confused with the washed-up actor at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway? and “Dancing With the Stars” hoofer of the same name; our Steve Guttenberg’s show business career started as a movie theater projectionist in New York City. He built a fairly decent sounding Zuckermann harpsichord and became the world’s worst piano tuner before he found his calling as a high-end audio salesman. That led to working as a producer for Chesky Records, which in turn ignited his writing career. He’s contributed to a number of magazines and websites including The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, Listener, Audio, Home The- ater, Home Entertainment, and Steve writes the Audio- philiac blog for CNET.com three times a week. http://news.cnet.com/audiophiliac/ Mongers Filter Kings Mini Series www.kidrobot.com TONE A 7 NO.24 2 0 0 9 Wow, here we go into year five! Seems Much as the audiophile press would like like just the other day I had arrived at to take credit for “saving” vinyl, if you the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest showing are one of the many analog lovers who people the first issue of TONEAudio, and withstood the criticism of your family and here we are. As Ben Fong-Torres likes to friends for still having a turntable, you say, “Crazy.” were a big part of it. And if you took the time to offer a quick demo only to have I’d like to thank all of you for your support. said family and friends discover, “Wow, The readership keeps growing daily and that sounds a lot better!” we owe you a we’ve received encouragement from all debt of gratitude. As Paul Stanley likes corners of the world. Keep the cards, to say, “You deserve to give yourself a letters and emails coming – we appreciate round of applause. Let’s go!” it. I’d also like to thank my staff for doing an awesome job. They always deliver The best news is that it’s a good day more than I ask and that’s what truly for music lovers, no matter what format makes TONEAudio great. you prefer. After lifting heavy speakers all summer, this issue is all analog, primarily cartridges and phono preamplifiers. Nothing too heavy to give my back some rest! There are a few more pieces that we didn’t have time to squeeze into this issue, so watch the gear section of our website this month. There are still some more cartridge and phono preamplifier reviews to come. It’s exciting to see analog so strong after all these years. Back in the late ’80s, it looked pretty dismal for the analog world. CD’s were well-entrenched and new records disappeared from the music store shelves in a very short period of time. I remember my local record store going from a small CD section to no vinyl over about three months. TONE A 8 NO.24 2 0 0 9 TONE TOON “These are the winter amplifiers.” TONE A 9 NO.24 2 0 0 9 FEATURE : HOOL The Audio Research SP-9 D SC By Kurt Doslu As the long time owner of a used HiFi Beyond industrial in look and feel, this gear looked like the military had put shop, it’s rare that someone stumps the dials on a toaster oven. The customer OL band, so to speak, but about 12 years ago, said he came across them while cleaning a young fellow walked into my shop with out his Grandfather’s storage unit and had no other clues.
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