by Rafe Arnott The Audio Note UK room at the 2015 Vancouver Audio Show was my favorite, hands down, and David Cope, this time teaming up with Warren Jarrett from SMAudio in Fullerton, did not […]
by Rafe Arnott Von Gaylord Audio was showing off a complete system at Newport Beach this year, from DAC to speakers, to cabling, Von Gaylord represented with their top-notch tube-amplifier designs and weighty, heavy-duty construction. […]
by Rafe Arnott Jeffrey Catalano of High Water Sound is a very cool cat. Not only was he spinning some of the best and rarest jazz, blues and folk LPs I’ve had the pleasure to […]
by Rafe Arnott Marten is a company, in my experience, whose loudspeakers are often discussed in hushed tones by serious audiophiles who nod their heads solemnly when they speak of rendition, resolution and focus. Having […]
By Rafe Arnott The Dan D’Agostino Momentum Integrated Amplifier is a work of art to behold. The chassis just exudes class everywhere you look, and I was looking at it everywhere I could. You just […]
By Rafe Arnott “The [Acapella] Atlas offers an extraordinarily open and transparent sound in a more compact home loudspeaker system.” Uh, compact? These speakers are over six-feet tall and weigh in around 350 lbs apiece, […]
By Rafe Arnott I can’t help the way I write, bear with me people. Have you ever read a book or seen a film where in the midst of constantly being hunted and chased, or […]
This is why you go to an audio show. We all say that we’re curious about the industry. We all say that we’re looking to hear a bunch of different systems. We make excuses about […]
Now this was fun. “Show Conditions” don’t usually offer the chance to listen to gear that was recently living in your house, but the tenth floor room shared by Stillpoints and Exemplar Audio offered just […]
I’m starting to hate Clayton Shaw. His Spatial Audio Laboratory has been pushing my buttons for two years with reasonably priced, open-baffle speakers. The last few models even sported the kind of big coax drivers […]
by Rafe Arnott WAVAC is to tube amplifiers what Hammond is to organs. Well, more like a Hammond organ being played by Billy Preston gigging at a small venue in the mid-seventies. They are punchy […]
Robert Morin of Lounge Audio is a bad man. Here we are, basically done with the process of reviewing his $300, MM-only, LCR MKIII phono preamp (Spoiler Alert: it makes a hash out of any […]
Schiit‘s Jason Stoddard, past Writer of the Future, smiles almost too easily these days. The Schiit machine has been spitting out winning products with an alarming regularity. If you didn’t know better, you’d think he […]
Folks reading the interwebs tend to be sensitive to some of the buddy-buddy relationships the hobbyist press corps has with some of the manufacturers. Keeping that in mind, this room, presented by Malibu dealer Sweet […]
By Rafe Arnott Boulder has always been a manufacturer I’ve been interested in. Sadly, my wallet has zero interest in them because they are just too far out of reach, hence my ears were piqued to […]
by Rafe Arnott Triangle Art turntables are not for the faint of heart, or pocketbook. Walking into their room at T.H.E. Show is like walking into what I imagine turntable heaven looks like. If you’re religious […]
By Rafe Arnott Emerald Physics is a company I’ve been curious about for a while, I’d seen glowing reviews of their open-baffle speaker designs and become intrigued. Do they live up to the hype? Well, […]
by Rafe Arnott Do you live under a rock? I’ll say it again, only louder this time … DO YOU LIVE UNDER A ROCK? Because even if you do (and with Vancouver housing prices, it […]
by Rafe Arnott I love vinyl. I love everything about it. The sound, the feel of records in my hands, the hunt for an elusive LP…. Rifling through the stacks in an old record store […]
HiFiMan is a terrible pain in the neck. Without HiFiMan, we might have had an easy run over the last few years. Internet people might have come together to decide that Audeze or Stax were […]
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