Luke Skywalker: She’s rich. Han Solo: Rich? Luke Skywalker: Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be …. Han Solo: What? Luke Skywalker: Well, more wealth than you can imagine! […]
I spent a few minutes with the Lambert Company’s “Play It By Ear” Headphone amp at CanJam this year — Mal heard it at CAS, and Brian spent some time with it at the LA […]
I was preparing the opening piece for this year’s Athens audio show and for some weird reason Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a returning thought. In Act I, Marcellus says “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”, […]
Thanksgiving is a weird holiday. Here in the US, it’s tied up with some Good Samaritan myths around the charity shown the settlers by the natives. Somewhat strangely, given the name of the holiday, […]
By John Stancavage Normally, if I said to you, “Man, those tweeters are on fire!” you probably wouldn’t interpret it as a good thing. In the case of Germany’s Lansche Audio, though, it would mean […]
I was scrolling through my Facebook feed because I had a million better things to do and came across a post by an industry figure. He’d found a advertorial from a vendor, where the pitch […]
When I first tuned into personal audio, it was with a boldly yellow Sony Walkman. I’m pretty sure it was waterproof, and I’m pretty sure I never tested that feature out — but I remember thinking could have, […]
By John Stancavage Sometimes I wonder if much of the appeal of the high-end is building an altar of gleaming equipment at which we can send prayers for better sound to our audio gods. There’s […]
Enter Pono Well, it happened. I got my Pono player. For those of you not keeping track, Pono is a music service, a portable digital audio player, a lifestyle experience, and more, that’s supposed to […]
The Geek Soul has been live on Indiegogo for a couple of weeks now, as part of the Forever Funding campaign around the Geek Pulse headphone amp/DAC combo from LH Labs. Yes, it’s still up […]
By John Stancavage Everyone usually can remember exactly where they were on a particularly noteworthy day. For me, the event was the best sound I’d ever heard, and the date and place was Monrovia, California, […]
Or, an Introvert Goes to Denver I’ve attended a few audio shows in the last 5 years. Okay, that’s not true. I’ve attended a lot of shows in the last 5 years. Every one of them is […]
You’d think that attending so many audio shows so very, very regularly would start to do some pretty serious damage to anyone’s enthusiasm. How exciting can it be to repeatedly trudge through crowded hallways for […]
Kirsten’s Final Thoughts and Gold Stars For the past few years, I’ve attended two big audio shows: T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach, and Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Whichever one I’m attending at the time tends […]
Or, How to Avoid the Utter Humiliation of Being Thrown Out of a Hotel Room by Your Favorite Audio Icon By Marc Phillips “The customer is always right.” I spent 18 years in retail and […]
If you follow The Audio Traveler, you’ll note that the Bricasti and TIDAL Audio system on display this year at RMAF mirrored the system that Scot had opportunity to hear at AXPONA earlier this year. So […]
For those of you not in the know, Hegel was one of the greatest philosophers to take pen to paper. And boy-howdy, did he. One of the most prolific writers of his time, Hegel was […]
Spatial Audio has been knocking it out of the park at each of the show demos I’ve encountered, and the show at RMAF was yet another “win” on that string. The “why” of that, though, […]
STAX electrostatic headphones — or “earspeakers,” as they call them — are near-legendary. I’ve been hearing about them since I first started to get into this hobby, as one of the most venerable and grail-like […]
The bar had closed on Thursday night for reasons that still remain somewhat obscure, so when Mal and I ran into Marc Phillips of Colleen Cardas Imports and Brad Serhan of Axis, it took about […]
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