Magico is an oddball brand. On the one hand, they’re renowned for putting out extremely high-tech product. On the other hand, they’re also known for pricing those products in a way that can be generously […]
MSB showed here at Newport with YG, pairing up their electronics to the much-appreciate (by me) $75,000 Anat III Studio. MSB is known for their distinctive look and their extraordinary electronics. Personally, only one of […]
Whoa. That’s kinda how I feel whenever I run across speakers from Rockport Technologies. I dunno why. I think the first model I ever heard of was the Arrakis, and that speaker may have scarred […]
I have two sets of the Magnepan speakers going at my home, so I guess you could say I’m a fan of the open baffle design. The approach is supposed to eliminate the colorations that […]
Are you a “Lowther guy”? And by that, I mean, are you a single-driver, micro-watt SET amp, all analog, kind of guy. If so, well, I bet you hit the Teresonic room at Newport. Mike […]
Psst! Hey! Hey you! Wanna see something totally sick? Well, here it is, you rubbernecker! Check out the Audio Artistry CBT36 — this $6,500 speaker has more drivers than all of Mitt Romney’s millionaire NASCAR […]
What do I know? Not much, apparently. For example, I’ve never heard of Chapman speakers. Which is my oversight, obviously, since they’ve been building speakers since 1965! This is exactly why I love audio shows. […]
One of the joys of the Internets is that all the things you have ever said, anywhere, about anything, are all right there to haunt you. Forever. All my once-favorite, now forgotten, punching bags can […]
This was a really interesting room, but I haven’t a lot to say about it. It was, well, very pretty and all that, and sure, finding gear this bespoke tucked into a corner at an […]
Wyred 4 Sound has branched out significantly in the last year, and now offers a handful of nifty new products — most relevantly for Newport is the Music Server. Pricing starts at $2k for 1TB […]
It’s easy to write a room report when that room was put together and demoed by Philip O’Hanlon of distributor On A Higher Note. The man himself is dapper, charming, gracious, and perhaps most importantly, […]
It’s not like I’m all old and jaded, but, well, it’s not common that a room at an audio show surprises me, but the Blackbird Audio suite at Newport did just that. I heard about […]
It was the best of rooms. It was the worst of rooms. Okay, no, the room was fine, but this is the room were I lost my beloved Chris Jones CD — and all the […]
I first ran across Estelon at RMAF last year, and I remember being instantly smitten. And not just by the sound. With three Accuton drivers, the $64,000 X Diamond is lightning fast, with detail retrieval […]
Soooo. IsoMike. Yeah. I have no idea what I was expecting here. But whatever it was, wetting my pants wasn’t one of those things. Yeah … Thanks. If you don’t know, and there’s really no […]
You never know what you’re going to find at an audio show, who you’re going to run into — or who is going to run over you. This year, for me, it was Sony’s Jon […]
$275,000 will buy a lot of things. A house in Florida. An Ivy-League college education — for two. A new Bentley to tool around in during the week — and a new Aston Martin for […]
I’ve seen and heard a half-dozen Emerald Physics demos. The premise is interesting — optimized speaker designs coupled with DSP-controlled external crossovers, and all wrapped up with a custom room correction solution equals some superlative, […]
In an ideal world, you’d be able to buy whatever it is you set your heart and mind on. You’d get the very best whateveritis and enjoy the snot out of it. The whateveritis would […]
Let me start by gloating a bit. When I read the rave that Stereophile’s Michael Fremer gave the Joseph Audio Pulsar in the June issue of the magazine, the first thought I had was a […]
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