Welcome to your completely unnecessary and wholly unsolicited Part-Time Audiophile guide to the holidays, Part 2 of a bazillion. You’re welcome. Vinyl Affordable vinyl is not impossible, but it is not a given either. You […]
Welcome to your completely unnecessary and wholly unsolicited Part-Time Audiophile guide to the holidays, Part 1 of a bazillion. You’re welcome. Headphones This category is something of a cheat — there’s quite a lot of “portable/personal […]
Got Wood? Lou Hinkley’s choice of using solid wood in his loudspeaker designs may be something of a throwback. An anachronism. I like to think of it as a semi-deliberate “up yours” to the armchair philosophers […]
Best Room Picking Tone Imports as my top choice for Best Room in Denver for me was easy because it was run by two people whose ears I implicitly trust, whose taste runs parallel to […]
by Darryl Lindberg Best room: High Water Sound To my way of thinking, the “best room” award must encompass not only the sound, but the overall environment. Is this someplace you go to enjoy listening […]
by Norman Williams Do you remember, the 17th night of September? I do, and it was a soiree not to forget indeed. In fact, I consider it an early birthday present. Jean-Pascal Panchard (JPP), owner […]
I’m sure this is not the Denver RMAF 2015 wrap-up that anybody wants, but too bad, this what you’re getting…. I’d had too much coffee. I could literally feel my blood pounding behind my slightly-bulging […]
Neil Young, who I feel needs no introduction here, sat down with more than a dozen media outlets on Monday in Vancouver, British Columbia to discuss the Canadian launch of his sometimes controversial high-res Pono […]
Last time, I prescribed Tron Legacy OST for all those who are afflicted by “test track disease”, eager to find something that will wreak havoc on their system’s resolving abilities. If you have not blown your […]
By Thomas Hyniewski and Norman Williams The beginnings of multi-directional sound recordings (read quadrophonics) and similar techniques, many years ago, gave a lot of us an early taste of the “nearly there” accomplishment. The early […]
Yet again, Channel D had an excellent sounding room at RMAF. Dr Rob Robinson is always a favorite stop; he’s one of the nicest guys in audio. Mark Block, Rob’s frequent audio show sidekick, is also great conversationalist, […]
Devialet Expert, a new breed of amplifiers There has not been another single product capable of making such a fuss in the world of high fidelity like the Devialet line of amplifiers … for ages it […]
Black Friday is upon us again. And once again, we have deals. I say, we have deals! [I’ll update this as they come in] Woo Audio is offering 10% off of everything, with free shipping, […]
Muraudio was a completely new name to me at this year’s Rocky Mountain show, but I was pulled in to the room due to some truly beautiful midrange. Much like the MBL speakers that use 360 degree radiating […]
I know, I know … readers will be all up in my business because Scot Hull already covered off this room more than a month ago, but after consulting with the Hull-ster he said “WTF?, […]
by Darryl Lindberg Why do seemingly normal people design, manufacture, and invest in all the electro-mechanical wizardry that’s on display at the RMAF? If you’re stumped by that question, well here’s the answer: so we […]
Sometimes a pairing will surprise you. For example, when I passed the Brodmann Acoustics room that was prominently displaying the massive T1610 output-tube equipped KR Audio Kronzilla SX 50-watt stereo amplifier, the last speaker I […]
Jonathan Halpern of Tone Imports, and Keith Aschenbrenner, the man behind Auditorium 23 products out of Germany, have confirmed that there will be a soon-to-be released EMT (Elektro-Mess-Technik) TSD-15 Step-up Transformer. Halpern has had a […]
Bob Marley is good right? And King Tubby… God I love that early Dancehall/Dub/Reggae vibe, those sound system battles in Kingston back in the day that spread to the States in the late ’70s and […]
Here we are, mid-November. It’s a glorious time to be alive. I say that with full acknowledgement of the “challenges”, which is a nice euphemism for “a can of worms I’m happy to open, but […]
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