LATEST ADDITIONS

The days grow short, the nights are gone — but Stampede lives on to spin another day. That’s our way of saying that we are very much looking forward to Mobile Fidelity continuing their most excellent Original Master Recording series revisitations of The Doobie Brothers Warner Bros. catalog with their upcoming 180g 45rpm 2LP edition April 1975’s Stampede. AP editor Mike Mettler corrals all the details. . .

Last year, we reviewed a fine 180g 3LP box set called Miles 55: The Prestige Recordings that focused on the recordings Miles Davis made that year for the Prestige label. As that box followed the previous year’s Miles 54: The Prestige Recordings 180g 4LP collection, it only seemed logical that we would get the next one in the series this year — and Craft Recordings has made sure of it by releasing the Miles 56: The Prestige Recordings 180g 4LP box set today, June 19, 2026. Read Mark Smotroff’s review to see if the Miles 56 box matches the excellence of its predecessors. . .

Ola Björling speaks with Isaac Choi of Klaudio at High End Vienna 2026 about the company’s new KD-CLN-LP200U ultrasonic record-cleaning machine, in addition to their Magnezar auto-clamping and non-clamping turntables and Tangential tracking tonearm. . .

It’s been about six months since UK-based AVID first announced their new Velsonic phono preamp — and, for about the same timeframe, AVID has been working with their new U.S. distributor, Playback Distribution. Julie Mullins has all the details about the company’s latest flagship phono-pre, and why it’s been worth the wait. . .