I’m partial to big speakers. While I can appreciate the precise imaging of minimonitors or the efficiency of compact floorstanders, I still crave the full-size soundstage created by many large transducers. That’s why I was […]
Like Fitzgerald and Armstrong, Simon and Garfunkel or Jagger and Richards, some pairings were just made for each other. That’s the same feeling I got from auditioning the Daedalus speakers at RMAF 2015, combined with […]
Going room to room at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest is always an exhilarating experience, but also one that, by day three, can almost be too much of a good thing. Speakers that might have […]
Dave Slagle builds oft-talked about (and lavishly praised by my brother from another mother Malachi Kenney) autoformers, he is a champion of the modest audiophile with his EMIA gear which features the EMIA phono stage, […]
“I mostly put out what I like,” Chad Kassem, owner of Salina, Kansas-based Acoustic Sounds was explaining to a couple of audio fans as I entered his ground-floor room during the second day of RMAF […]
I had just dropped into a chair to rest my feet for a minute before starting to photograph the Aaudio Imports room at RMAF 2015 when a gentleman sat down next to me. “Would you […]
I don’t know about you, but the only redeeming thing I got from HBO’s otherwise disappointing season two of “True Detective” was the creepy theme song, “Nevermind,” by Leonard Cohen. The halting ballad, which features […]
TechDAS need to get Harrison Ford to star in their sequel to Air Force One. Let’s be original and call it Air Force Two. This turntable is a behemoth, and with the Graham Engineering Phantom […]
This is a turntable I’ve been waiting a long time to hear: Dr. Feickert’s Woodpecker. The Woodpecker is the base model in Feickert’s line ($6,500 USD), and Vana Ltd. (US distributor) specifies black-anodized, brushed aluminum […]
It’s not too often that I will raise an unkempt eyebrow over a digital rig. But as I stumbled about The Tower at RMAF (where I was sentenced like Quasimodo by Scot Hull), I came […]
Robert Parker was a problem for high-end wine manufacturers. His 100-point universal scale represented a leveling of the field, and suddenly, brands with a pedigreed history centuries deep were competing with the hoi poloi — […]
Okay, so now you know I like Paul Simon. But what is Kii (pronounced “key”)? Kii Audio is a new audio brand, one I had never heard (or heard of) before stepping into an Atrium […]
I’m almost disappointed when Jeff Catalano of High Water Sound chooses to not go banana-boats at audio shows. Is that bad? I think it might be. Yeah, yeah — his room sounds great. Yeah, yeah […]
The AURALiC Aries Mini was my top pick for “What’s Hot” out of the Munich High-End show back in May, and almost six months later, I’m finding it hard to evict it from the Iron […]
Do you like headphones? Do you like to take them on the road? Out in the world? Where people can see and hear you? And, if so, are you socially conscious enough to acknowledge that open-backed headphones […]
One of the really interesting things you find at audio shows like RMAF is that many mega-buck systems just don’t sound right, in spite of individually fine components. There is much value in synergy. There […]
Ferrari red, gleaming chrome…. Triangle Arts turntables are probably not for the pipe-and-slipper set of audiophiles. Those furrowed-brow types with the insipid grin who wear jumpers, not sweaters, sip whiskey and have bad posture. The […]
Boston is best known for sports teams, revolutions and a certain rock band. Maybe soon you could add to that … turntables? Yes, it’s true. A group of enterprising young guys has taken square aim […]
If Carl Marchisotto wasn’t busy designing speakers and whipping them into shape, I could picture him in the corner of a boxing ring, towel around his neck, coaching a few especially talented boxers. Instead, Marchisotto […]
Hometown dealer Apex Audio presented some of the most complete, well-thought-out rooms at the Marriott Denver Tech Center for RMAF 2015. I didn’t have an opportunity to take the retailer’s stretch limo service to its […]
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