New flagship headphones are on the way from Meze Audio — say hello to the new Empyrean! Many of you are aware that the first-gen Empyrean were among the very best-received headphones your $3,000 could buy. […]
Doing it wrong Yes, I’m doing it wrong. I think that’s the best place to start any confession, audiophile or otherwise. Because, clearly, this whole “near-field” thing is just not the same as the “audiophile […]
What follows is not a typical audio review of the Naim Uniti Atom, or, of anything really. Just want to be clear. All of this is me trying to solve a problem. A peculiar problem. […]
ZMF Headphones The treat at CanJam, for me, was this little room right here: ZMF Headphones. On the way in, I met Zach on the way out — brandishing a tiny handy-cam and apparently doing […]
Noble Audio Been a few years since we’ve talked about Noble Audio here at PTA. Once a darling of the audio show circuit, Noble had some “leadership issues”. Since then, they’ve revitalized, revamped, and effectively […]
Busy weekend here at PTA! Marc is up at the Pacific Audio Fest in Seattle, while I’m a bit closer to home. But today found a few extra hours — so off to Canjam I […]
Two new offerings from Aurender were shown at Munich last week. The first is the AP20. You can file this offering under “one-box wonder” — a combined server/streamer, DAC, and amplifier. Just need cables and […]
Breaking news has it that beloved audiophile brand Audio Research may be in trouble. As you probably know, the company was recently purchased from (what’s now called) the McIntosh Group a couple of years ago. What you […]
This was a puzzling room. Puzzling to me, at least. To be honest, though, I am easily distracted by big sounds and shiny objects, so perhaps it was just me. I’m pretty sure what was […]
Damon Gramont of Bricasti Design, the company known for the “gold standard” in pro-audio reverb, is (still) kicking ass in hi-fi. Words and Photos by Scot Hull I can no longer recall how/when I was […]
BorderPatrol Audio Electronics, Triode Wire Labs, and Volti Audio are perhaps better known as the Three Amigos. Or as I like to call them, the Three Musketeers. And that makes their usual fourth, Innuos, perhaps better […]
Insiders, intelligentsia, and those-in-the-know, know that Steven Norber has got the mojo — and they know that his demos are always among some of the most engaging, liquid, analog-sounding, and real-to-life to be heard. I […]
In the spirit of curiosity, I want to present the Laufer Teknik “The Note,” a $32,500/pair line array that features approximately 10,000 one-inch drivers suspended by a single thread! Okay, no, that’s not what happened here, but […]
Klaus Bunge of Odyssey Audio is impossible to miss. He’s big. He is passionately loud. He makes grand, sweeping statements. He is over-the-top in a larger-than-life kind of way. And he also puts on the best demos at audio […]
One of my now-vague, still-formative experiences in the way-back archives was a Grande Utopia system from Focal. I remember the speakers were just massive — as was the sound. And I remember that correlation — […]
Brian already talked a bit about the new ZMF headphones debuting here at AXPONA (and available later this month), the closed-back Atrium. I’ll offer that the detail coming out of these headphones was easily on […]
Just inside the door to this-year’s Ear Gear Expo (or, as I overheard one show-goer call it, the “Eargasm Explosion”), was fan-favorite Moon Audio. I have to admit, their tables are a kind of madness. […]
Covering audio shows has always been a favorite part of doing Part-Time Audiophile. In a way, it’s kinda how we got our start. Way back in the day, most “audio destinations” largely ignored shows, and […]
There is something about Avantgarde Acoustic and I don’t know what it is. Always has been, if I’m being honest. The speakers are large, imposing, and impossible to ignore — and, to my eye, in […]
One of the best parts of an Andrew Jones loudspeaker launch, such as the MoFi Sourcepoint 10, is an Andrew Jones presentation. Perhaps one of the most accomplished designers working in the industry today, he’s […]
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