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CHECK IT: Inside Tokyo’s Audiophile venues…
I don’t know about any of you, but I’ve been absolutely itchy with a desire to hit the streets of Japan, and check out all things audiophile. My father traveled there in his 20s, and […]
I don’t know about any of you, but I’ve been absolutely itchy with a desire to hit the streets of Japan, and check out all things audiophile. My father traveled there in his 20s, and […]
The PS Audio suite at any hi-fi show I’ve attended is always something to behold. The Boulder, Colorado-based company always goes big, and RMAF 2016 was no exception. Massive gleaming silver boxes of PS Audio […]
There is not much to be said about Nagra Audio that has not been said already. The company goes back six decades, when Stefan Kudelski, a young talented engineer born in Poland but due to […]
Sometimes you hear something, or see something, and you’re instantly intrigued – like a good mystery novel. A switch is flipped in your mind, and once flipped, you can’t just turn it off. So it […]
Robert Stein of Ultra Systems and The Cable Company, stopped me mid-dash, to ask me if I’d heard about the new the WA-Quantum Cubed Room Animator ($299 each). I paused, probably because I’d never heard those words […]
In terms of pure fun, the one room I always look forward to at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest is a mezzanine-level space shared by Zu Audio and Peachtree Audio. From appearances by rock-n-roll legends […]
High-efficiency speakers and tubes, that’s what you’re supposed to do, it’s what we’re taught. I should know, that’s my jam. Jonathan Halpern of Tone Imports, and John DeVore of DeVore Fidelity are like the peanut […]
OPPO Digital may have made its name with its famed disc-spinning products, but today the company has a fast-growing catalog of diverse gear. Many of those units were on display at the Rocky Mountain Audio […]
Wilson Benesch, a British manufacturer known for its elegant line of loudspeakers, has had an on-and-off presence in the U.S. market. During the times when its products were available here, the company’s “house sound” of […]
By John Stancavage Roger Sanders doesn’t attend many audio shows these days. For an industry pioneer and company CEO, he’s remarkably low-key. But if you catch him in the right mood outside the door of […]
By Richard Mak Since 2011, the TAVES Consumer Electronic Show has grown to become to become Canada’s premier electronic show for high end audio and consumer electronics. The number of exhibitors has increased steadily year […]
There must be no shortage of coffee pots at Wyred 4 Sound’s Atascadero, Calif., offices. I’m imagining an entire team of heavily perspiring executives, engineers and marketing people rushing around, gulping caffeine in prodigious amounts, […]
Acoustic Zen master Robert Lee, whose quiet, humble presence and terrific-sounding speakers are a mainstay of the major stereo shows, almost didn’t attend the 2016 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest Worn out from the exhibit circuit […]
I occasionally stumble across an album I haven’t played in decades, and a quick spin brings back the high school or college memories of where I was, what I was doing and which girl (or […]
I have a great job. I’ll never argue that. I go to hi-fi audio shows, and write about the gear that interests me the most, and Tidal Audio is a German high-end audio component, and […]
Counterfeit Notice From AudioQuest: It has recently come to light that a counterfeit version of the guts of DragonFly v1.2 is inside multiple brands of Made In China small USB DACs. It is important to […]
Jim Jordan of Vaughn Loudspeakers has been showing with vintage plasma tweeters from DuKane for the last few years, but this $20,000 Plasma Signature is the first I can recall with them integrated into the overall […]
Call it “Wilson Audio: The Next Generation.” The speaker enterprise’s soon-to-be captain, Daryl Wilson, seems poised to take his crew boldly into the future. The proof wasn’t floating in space dock or stuck in a […]
Legacy Audio is taking aim at the monitor market with its new Calibre stand-mounted speaker. There have been many impressive, small-box speakers over the years, but often they traded bass response and heft for pinpoint […]
Brannan Mason is the co-owner of Noble Audio, and in Denver at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival he was able to spend some time talking with Part-Time Audiophile about Nobel’s current lineup, company philosophy, manufacturing […]
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