by Warren Chi Pop quiz, hotshot! Your main competitor (Sony) has been reaping the rewards of a successful new lifestyle headphone as part of their hi-res audio strategy. It’s fairly balanced, with respectable detail resolution, […]
by Warren Chi For as long as I can remember, Audio-Technica has spared little expense when it comes to their CES and NAMM exhibits. I won’t describe or depict them here so that you can […]
I will be the first in line for any queue that wants to profess its love for the style, grace and sheer beauty of Avantgarde horn speakers. The Trio Classico (with that giant stack of […]
I really ought to leave the Music Hall rooms for later in any given day. It’s not that I can’t take it first-thing. Not at all. The sound of a Music Hall system is almost […]
by Warren Chi If personal audio was a religion (and believe me there are those who act as if it is), then one of the faith’s most enduring prophecies is that the mighty Orpheus shall […]
by Warren Chi I begin my annual pilgrimage at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall. For personal audiophiles the world over, this is our Mecca. Dutifully, I faced east within South Hall and headed […]
Okay, I’ll confess. I might have gone a bit bananas in the High Water Sound room, shooting the new Ortofon A95 cartridge. Whoops. The A90, which was discontinued some years ago, was an incredible feat […]
by Warren Chi By day I’m a mild-mannered consumer electronics developer. By night, I’m a rabid personal audio enthusiast. And for 360 days a year, I have no problems switching hats at a moment’s notice […]
I often wonder why $30 for Apple EarPods is perfectly acceptable as a purchase, but that anything more is absurd. Maybe it’s because Apple gives them away with their iPhone, or something, so the only people […]
I wish I was rich. Stinking, filthy, Scrooge McDuck rich. That would be awesome. The fact that such vast wealth would have issues and problems of its own, I happily and cheerfully wave away like […]
Founder Jerry Harvey of JH Audio may have been somewhere at CES, but I never caught up with him. I did, however, find President Andy Regan — and boy was I happy I did. Not […]
Living in Estonia, designer Alfred Vassilkov and business-partner Alissa Vassilkova of Estelon don’t do a lot of North American shows. If you haven’t met them, they’re a charming story, this father-daughter pair, and a delightful exemplar […]
I might have been hallucinating. It’s possible. But I had to stop, bat country or no. There was just no way I was going to pass up on this chance. If you thought I might have […]
Manley Labs was not showing any new products at CES this year, and instead of a “live” display, opted for something a bit more off-the-wall. That is, they hung all their gear. Like art. With […]
There are more than few vendors that are quite content to let me know where I stand on the evolutionary scale, though Wes Bender is one of the very few that tends to make me laugh […]
Meredith Gabor and Rune Skov were on hand to talk about the new wire coming from legendary wire company Nordost, the Pro Audio line called Ax Angel. Following the notion that the best performance usually […]
International CES is a weird, weird audio show. But only if you judge it by any other audio show. The reason for that, I think, is that it’s not an audio show — at least, not by any current […]
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