Best of 2015 and Product of the Year
2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, everyone is gone, and WTF […]
2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, everyone is gone, and WTF […]
This is the story about doing the impossible. This is a story about overcoming the Friend Zone. I received the OPPO HA-1 headphone amp ($1199) and PM-1 headphones ($1099) for review along with a pretty large shipment […]
It shouldn’t be weird. I think that is the main point that John and Steve were driving at, back in New York. Not that it couldn’t be done. Or even that it hadn’t ever been […]
By Thomas Hyniewski and Norman Williams This is a personal appreciation on the part of your Part Time-Audiophile team, self-projected from Geneva to the Warsaw Audio (and Video) Show (WAS). This was our second serious […]
by Marc Phillips Have I told you about my trip to Australia this summer? That’s kind of an in-joke around here, since I can’t seem to shut up about it and I’m really starting to […]
By cheerfully weird happenstance, I received two world-class phono preamplifiers, pretty much right on top of each other. The first to arrive was the Arion phonostage ($6,395) from Tim Stinson of Luminous Audio. Tim Stinson was beside […]
On Saturday December 12th, from 12-5pm, Musical Surroundings will demonstrate the one-of-a-kind Clearaudio Statement turntable. This is the FIRST showing of the new Statement on the East Coast! Along with this table, they will also demonstrate […]
— by Paul Ashby Janet Feder is from Boulder, Colorado. She’s a songwriter, a singer, and plays a custom-made nylon string baritone guitar. Sometimes she treats the strings with thread and metal objects. Her orbit […]
By Thomas Hyniewski, Photos courtesy of StereoLife I have often wondered how much an ultimate speaker setup would require in production costs and thus what market price it could bring. Now I know (it’s a […]
By Thomas Hyniewski This year we were thankfully blessed by a heavy rain of loudspeakers hors de l’ordinaire: Martin Logan, Zeta Zero, B&W, Living Voice, FM Acoustics, Triangle and many, many more… Attending the Warsaw-AS regularly, […]
by John Richardson It’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed a high-end digital to analog converter, or DAC. Back when I was frequently contributing at Stereomojo.com, I was sort of their go-to DAC guy. It was […]
by Malachi Kenney True Confessions It must have been at least a decade ago when the Single-Ended bug bit me. The usual thing happened, of course. I’d heard a single-ended 50 playing through some AER […]
It is quite difficult to single out the best products given that there are so many great products on demo at RMAF every year. So I’m going to cheat a little and mention a couple […]
Every year, I plan to wrap RMAF coverage up early. Every year, it goes later and later. It’s because I’m cursed. But this year, we were able to pile it pretty high and deep. 90 […]
Welcome to your completely unnecessary and wholly unsolicited Part-Time Audiophile guide to the holidays, Part 3 of a bazillion. You’re welcome. Books Got books? Chances are, you’re spending all your money on LPs, but on the […]
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