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Joni knows jazz, and jazz knows Joni. To reinforce the point, Joni Mitchell is getting ready to release Joni’s Jazz, a massive 8LP passion project years in the making, via Rhino on September 5, 2025. It’s a career-spanning collection that features a wide range of recordings specifically chosen by Mitchell herself that reflect jazz’s profound influence on her music. Read on to see which tracks made her final cut, and why this box is a most worthy addition to your collection. . .

We first came across EAT’s all-new E-Glo 2 phono preamp at High End Munich 2025, where it was displayed passively alongside additional EAT (a.k.a. European Audio Team) E-Glo models and various other components. Thanks to now having gotten direct info regarding the E-Glo 2’s features and specs officially in hand, Julie Mullins can tell us all much more about it — so read on to see what’s what with this cool new second-gen phono preamp. . .

This week, we’re cueing up a newly released 2LP set in order to revisit music from an acclaimed indie artist via an album we had only heard on CD (and digitally) before it got its most welcome analog upgrade. The ostensibly self-titled album, Nourallah Brothers, is a sprawling, expanded 26-track collaboration initially released with 10 fewer tracks in 2001, and it’s the brainchild of Texas-based indie artist and jack of many aural trades Salim Nourallah, along with key contributions from his brother Faris Nourallah. Read on to see why the atmospheric, intimate, wide-stereo sounds of Nourallah Brothers make this 2LP set an immediate, on-the-table winner. . .

“You put the load right on me.” That’s a line from The Band’s seminal 1968 song “The Weight,” which never actually mentions its title by name in the lyrics — but that above-noted key phrase, which serves as the linchpin line of its chorus, could also be the first thought an LP has the moment you put a record weight on top of it for stabilization purposes. (Go with me on this one, folks, and don’t just call me Crazy Chester.) One such manufacturer, Origin Live, have just literally dropped their next record weight, rightly dubbed the Gravity Two. Read on to see the features and specs of the Gravity Two, and how it builds upon the success of its predecessor, the Gravity One. . .