On the international jazz front the Swiss are still winning, but the Russians are suddenly catching up with a duo of fascinating releases. I’m referring to the increasingly wonderful fact that I’m getting these magnificent […]
The Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri S2-SC preamplifier and Model 125 amplifier are soooooo tiny. How tiny are they? When the boxes arrived at my front door, I said “This can’t be right. These boxes […]
When I first heard about Andover Audio’s SpinBase in the PTA War Room, I obviously wondered, “What’s a SpinBase?” After a quick internet search and a read through PTA’s review of the Andover Model One […]
I can’t pick out a specific genre for the music played on Dimitri Monstein Ensemble’s Landscape, and yet it’s so familiar, like something I used to hear all over the place many years ago. Monstein, […]
Bowers & Wilkins does it again, besting themselves. Refining the audio dreamscape. The press release below says it best: “How do you improve on the world’s most successful and iconic range of high-end loudspeakers?” After […]
I’ve mentioned the influx of European jazz that’s suddenly arriving in the mail, especially from Switzerland, but here’s a CD from Russia that made quite a surreptitious entrance. I saw the little customs labels all […]
BREAKING NEWS!!! Press Release Enclosed August 23, 2021 Dear AXPONA Community, AXPONA will be rescheduled from October 29-31, 2021 until April 22-24, 2022. Throughout this spring and early summer, enthusiasm for AXPONA in October was […]
As the Airmotiv GR1 headphones land in my lap I realize that I’ve been spoiled rotten. Lately it’s been headphones from the likes of Audeze and Focal, brands of which nearly define the best-of-the-best offerings […]
In all my years of being an audiophile, of being a high-end audio importer and distributor, of being an audio reviewer, I had never seen a pair of loudspeakers get split up in a shipment […]
As a youth in the early 1970s I was entranced by George Harrison’s third solo LP, All Things Must Pass. John Lennon’s then new Plastic Ono Band was equally high on my list, even if […]
Season 6 of Part-Time Audiophile‘s The Occasional Podcast is in full swing. Episode 1 sees the reunion of two of our favorite production-people-turned-audiophile with Grover Neville and Dave McNair. What started as a text discussion […]
The juggernaut that is Japanese avant-garde pianist Satoko Fujii continues unabated. I received quite a few of her astounding and strange albums from Libra Records over the last few months, and I even let the […]
I don’t have a story about Hagerman Audio Labs from the old days, other than the fact that they offered a product I found intriguing—an affordable tube phono stage called the Trumpet that sounded […]
Reality Is Overrated When It Comes to Recordings In my never-ending mental obsession with the conceptual side of music recording and playback, I started thinking about what makes hi-fi components sound different and what that […]
LOS ANGELES — Michael Finnigan, an American keyboard player and vocalist, known especially for playing the iconic Hammond B3 organ, passed away today after a long battle with cancer. He was 76 years old. Finnigan […]
The arrival of Fadenschlag, from Swiss jazz guitarist Mareille Merck and her trio Larus, reminds me that there was a time a few months ago that I said yes to a record label from that […]
Of all the audio gear I came close to buying over the last forty years, I probably got closer to a pair of LS3/5as than anything else. I’m reminded of that constantly in the presence […]
Last year I reviewed the Audio Hungary (website) Qualiton APX-200 power amp (review linked here), which was 100 watts per channel of pure vacuum tube goodness. It was, and still is, a tremendous sounding power […]
Take one look at the title of the new album from guitarist Alex Martin, and you’ll probably have a pretty good idea of what kind of music is contained within. Probably folk songs arranged through […]
UK guitarist Chris Standring and his new album Wonderful World have helped me to confront my secret, unspoken love for a certain kind of music, a nebulous genre known by various names such as exotica, […]
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