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This preamp takes you deeper into the sound of LPs

I’ve admired ModWright Instruments components from afar for years at audio shows. The company’s design aesthetic has been clean and straightforward, the sound honest and true. I haven’t covered much in the way of vacuum tube components this year, but when I heard the new ModWright PH 9.0 tube phono preamp I knew it deserved a more extended listen at …

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I was wrong about the first Razr

After more than 16 years reviewing several hundred phones for CNET, only a handful burn brightly in my memory. Mobiles like the first iPhone, the Nexus One and the Motorola Razr V3 will forever rise above a churning sea of black rectangles that have blended into each other. My relationship with the Razr is particularly complicated. I remember it not …

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