Thanksgiving and Black Friday were off-days for me, so it was fun to check in on the madness after the feeding frenzy yesterday. And guess what? The LH Labs team has now blown past their […]
Amplifier Madness Filed Under: Why The Hell Not. Wild hair? Yeah, maybe. Two over-achieving and “moderately priced” transducers fell into my Magical Hand of Loudspeakers — the Magnepan 3.7s and the Tekton Designs SEAS Pendragon […]
Scott Dalzell of Viva Hifi, out in NoVA, was very kind to accommodate my schedule and invited me to visit with a pair Lou Hinkley’s new speakers, the Daedalus Audio Pan. And by “visit with”, […]
Looks like the LH Labs kids have broken another milestone, this one marking $300,000 in pledges on their Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign. Holy cow. Some news on that front — there’s now a “fully balanced” version […]
Part One: Sinking into the Sounds of the ALO Island by Michael Mercer ALO Audio carved out a healthy slice of the high-end portable audio market years ago through their continued innovation, consistency in sonic […]
Wow. What a show! Before anything else, a doff of the cap to the fine folks that put this paroxysm of audio joy together. Marjorie, what a way to celebrate 10 years! In case you […]
by Frank Iacone New York Head-Fi members gathered together for their Fall 2013 headphone meet at the Adria Hotel in Bayside NY this past Saturday, November 9th. The event was well attended, the room completely […]
This should hit a solid month after RMAF, and this time I wanted to say something about the “Best in Show.” Unfortunately, I didn’t see the whole show. The best I can do is talk […]
by Warren Chi, Scot Hull, Michael Liang and Michael Mercer The Astell & Kern AK120. It may not be the flavor-of-the-month anymore, and the hype might finally be dying down. Good! Now we can get […]
I don’t habitually do a “best in show” thing, especially when I know I haven’t actually had opportunity to listen to everything available. But RMAF is so dauntingly huge that I really want to take […]
Some news from the LH Labs crew on the forthcoming Geek Pulse, a desktop headphone DAC/amplifier that may well (now) include the kitchen sink when it comes to features. What’s new? A new look, variable […]
In a case of absolutely brilliant positioning, the JH Audio booth at CanJam, sitting directly astride the entry, was easily one of the busiest destinations at RMAF — all weekend long. I passed this booth […]
Audio Arts‘ Gideon Schwartz had a room full of state of the art gear — as I reported live from RMAF last month. Here, I just wanted to share some of the … ahem … […]
Auralic was tucked into a corner at CanJam, and I nearly missed the table. Glad I didn’t! The Gemini series is a new desktop-friendly DAC/can-amp combo that features “trickle-down” tech from the excellent Vega product […]
Darren Censullo of Avatar Acoustics was showing off a whole suite of nifty widgets from budget-minded iFi Audio. He had the entire lineup, stacked, which made for a rather interesting presentation — but the sound […]
HiFi Man HiFi Man had the awesomest corner at CanJam — it was totally like walking into a candy store. I’ll have one of those and one of those and one of those …. I […]
High Fidelity Services of Braintree, Mass. imports a ton of stuff. So much stuff, in fact, that they had two rooms set up to display everything. Their larger room, filled with Audia Flight electronics and […]
The GR Research LS-X loudspeakers ($39,000) offered big, beautiful sound, and the included integrated subwoofer towers insured that there was no lack of bass. The dB Labs Evolution DAC ($2,395) and dB Audio Revolution media […]
I covered the Odyssey Audio room for The Absolute Sound, so I won’t repeat here other than to say “I’m flabbergasted at how good this room sounded.” Full system, including cables, for $6,700. This is […]
Astell&Kern makes some damn fine “digital audio players”, aka DAPs. This is a weird little corner-case of a market niche, in a way, what with the dominance of Apple’s iDevices pretty much blotting out the […]
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