List price: 1,155 JPY (1,050 JPY + tax)
Publisher: Ongaku-no-tomo-sha corp.
Publication date: June 2024
Language: Japanese
Dimensions: 7.17 x 0.39 x 10.12 inches
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The theme of this month’s cover:
Price, design and sound, everything is perfect
Cover products: ARCAM “CD5/A5“
[Special feature] High cost performance audios
- Listen to “The sound of the 90s” with Arcam’s Integrated amplifier and CD players
(Akira Yamanaka [Disk Union] x Yoshihisa Fukae [Herman International] x Shunsuke Yoshino [Chief Editor of “stereo”]) - A must-see for audio fans! Let’s enjoy music with Epos ES-7N
(By Haruo Ushio) - Amazing size and price: Marantz MODEL M1
(By Yoshiyuki Ishida) - The joy of being surrounded by realistic sound: Playing back Dolby Atmos with the product of ECLIPSE
(By Hisaaki Hijikata) - Growl at the high cost performance!!: Selected High value models (Makoto Yamaguchi / Kazumi Iwaide / Shunsuke Yoshino[Chief editor of “stereo”])
- The little giant of the desktop: TEAC UD-507
(By Yoshito Endo) - My best: High cost performance examples presented by audiophiles
(Kenji Kawashima/Shunsuke Motegi/Takashi Iwai/MAsamitsu Fukuda/Yasuhisa Tobimatsu/Dai Onojima/Atsuki Ishimine) - From “ONTOMO Shop”: A catalog of the High cost performance products
- Accuphase E-700
(By Tadashi Yamanouchi) - Three new faces from Zonotone
(By Masanobu Hayashi) - Listening to the Arturo Toscanini masterpiece collection
(By Masaki Yoshioka) - Announcement of the Speaker contest & Craftsman contest 2024
stereo listening room: Listening to popular new products
(Yoshiyuki Ishida / Chitake Inoue / Takashi Iwai / Kazumi Iwaide / Haruo Ushio / Saburo Ubukata / Ikuo Tsunoda / Masamitsu Fukuda: Masaoki Endo [commentary])
[SACD player] Esoteric K-03XD SE
[Integrated amplifier] MALC Control amp Ref-1
[Speakers] Sonus Faber Lumina Ⅱ Amator / Kripton KX-0.5P Ⅱ / B&W 705 S3 Signature
Featured product file
1. TRIODE TRS-34 (By Yutaka Suzuki)
2. THORENS TD1500 (By Chitake Inoue)
3. Gold Ring E4 (By Mitsugu Kobayashi)
4. METRONOME Technology AQWO2 (By Chitake Inoue)
5. FIIO R9 (By Takashi Iwai)
Accessory File: Musica Note S-STW101 (By Akira Sumiyama)
Product News (By Masao Mineo)
Serial articles
- A Room Where You Can See Sound Audio and People Person of the Month: Kei Ashid (By Isashi Tanaka)
- Peter Barakan’s New Music Diary “Michael Cuscuna” (By Peter Barakan)
- Good Sound Ueda’s Audio Walk “COUNT” (By Takashi Ueda)
- Resumes of Famous Machines (By Makoto Sawamura)
- New Common Sense in Audio (By Masamitsu Fukuda)
- Vinyl Junkies – The Pot of Analog audio (By Isashi Tanaka)
- Firebird Electric (By Masao Mineo)
- Craft Vintage (By Mamoru Kiyoto)
- Shiba-chan’s Eye: Clock Generators(By Isao Shibasaki)
- Manga “Sound Climber Kenji” (By Akira Yamanaka)
- Terashima Disk Hall (By Yasukuni Terashima)
Stereo Disc Collections
- Monthly Best Recordings (By Fukuda Masamitsu)
- Special Selections (Yoshiyuki Ishida / Mitsugu Hayashi / Yasuichiro Simbo / Isashi Tanaka)
- Hot Topics：Classical music (By Kozo Asari)／Jazz (By Masamichi Okazaki)／Rock・Popular (By Kazuhiro Uda)／Japanese Popular (By Hideki Masubuchi)
- SACD (By Tetsuo Iwama)
- Perverted Software Championship (By Akira Sumiyama & Motoyuki Takasaki)
- Audiobooks & Entertainment Information (By Tomoko Yamauchi)
- Topics: Three titles in the series ‘The Moonlight Cats Radio Show’ by Shogo Hamada are now available on analogue
- BOOKS
- Preview of the next issue
- TOWNS: Audio news
- Editor’s Note
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