Last year, ahead of the California Audio Show, I made a visit to Brian Berdan’s brick-and-mortar store, Audio Element, in Pasadena. I entered the shop, located in a thriving entertainment district on Union Street, and […]
Newport Beach this year was bittersweet for some of us. Among other sorrows, it turns out that a longtime friend of the hi-fi show circuit was playing his last song: David Cope, Audio Note UK‘s […]
Visitors to Sanders Sound Systems’ small, second-floor room at T.H.E. Show in Newport encountered a demo that could have made a fascinating episode of the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters. Among the commonly held beliefs easily disproved […]
I recall being 9 years old, breaking the seal on my dad’s fresh LPs, giving them a clean and accidentally spilling LAST cleaning fluid everywhere with that darn dropper, then copying them to audio cassettes for […]
I did my best to make the Newport Beach show a hi-fi destination where I sought out systems and manufacturers that I hadn’t spent time with previously, and whose set-ups were comprised of digital sources […]
At THE Show, I got a new perspective on cables. Cables are a highly contentious topic in our industry, and it was refreshing to spend a few minutes with David Salz, Designer and Founder of […]
There continue to be a lot of unconventional speaker designs in the high-end, including horns, electrostats, transmission lines, field coils and ribbons. But one particular concept that remains fairly rare is the single point source. […]
You ever have someone tell you something like “you really got to hear these speakers, they’re amazing. I want to marry them.” Well, I haven’t, so when Marc Phillips of Colleen Cardas Imports told me […]
“Dad, I want to hear some rock,” a young boy sitting behind me complained in the McIntosh Laboratory Inc. room at T.H.E. Show in Newport. Gathered in the dark and bathed in the mesmerizing blue […]
Vinnie Rossi and his enthusiasm for great music being cranked to triple-digit dBs is infectious. How could it not be? Rossi is always laughing, smiling, and always willing to throw on whatever LP or digital […]
If you haven’t been keeping up, Emerald Physics is ahead of you. The company, currently under the leadership of Walter Liederman (whom many of you may know as Underwood Wally, from his dealership days — […]
A day prior to the start of THE Show Newport, Meridian announced their new Reference Meridian Ultra DAC that caught my attention. Looking at the spec sheet- a dedicated clock card & dual mono DACs, this […]
I was skeptical about the abstract art posing as dipole loudspeakers that sat in front of me at T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach on Thursday afternoon. But that skepticism was soon to be put to […]
I kept opening one eye in the near blackness of the Zu Audio room at Newport Beach as I proceeded to click my heels together three times: but unlike Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, […]
Technics has this to say about its new SL-1200: It’s not your father’s direct-drive turntable. It’s true that the Japanese firm is bringing back its most popular product ever — the rugged vinyl-spinner that was […]
The young, Rockabilly-esque couple sat down about 20 feet away from Brian Hunter and I as we both sat together writing in the bar seating area of the Hotel Irvine’s lobby Friday morning. She looked […]
As the 2016 edition of T.H.E. Show draws near in Newport Beach, Calif., there are a few questions waiting to be answered, including: Will the June 3-5 event, which has shown strong growth since its […]
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