It sounds funny to pair these two distributors together, Fidelis and Audio Skies, but that’s the first thing I thought of when I saw a pair of Harbeth 40.3s mated to JMF amplification and Ideon […]
I first noticed the brand name Axxess when I visited Audio Group Denmark in Aalborg last summer. This mysterious name was present on so much of the signage and promotional materials along with Aavik, Ansuz […]
Yep, that’s the back of my head in that top picture. That might be the first time I’ve done a show report with me in the photos, but Scot Hull was lurking around behind me […]
First of all, forgive my photos of the Qln Prestige 3 speakers in the Qln and Well Pleased Audio Vida room. The glossy wood finish, known as piano walnut, was so dark and yet so […]
It was only fitting to visit Gunny Surya at AXPONA 2023–hours before I left for Chicago I finally finished my review of Sonner Audio’s Allegro Unum monitors. I wanted to sit with Gunny, listen to […]
I’ve mentioned the incredible amount of good sound at AXPONA 2023, and how every single room seemed to offer a compelling argument for seat time. I don’t want to say I was surprised by the […]
The brand new Wharfedale Dovedale loudspeakers remind me some of my favorite BBC speaker designs, those big-box affairs such as the Spendor SP100s, which I owned for many years, the Harbeth 40s, which I’ve loved […]
It’s finally happened. After years of waiting, of endless static displays, of reading other people’s reviews, of learning that the boss has a pair for his desktop system, I’ve finally sat down and spent some […]
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 — […]
Can the reigning Chocolate Chip Trip champion, the Acora VRC-1 loudspeakers, defend the title it won at the 2023 Florida Audio Expo in February? Yeah, I know the Acora Acoustics room at FLAX also was […]
Why Team Joseph? Well, I could call it Team Doshi or Team J. Sikora or Team Berkeley Audio. But we have a bad habit at high-end audio shows of giving all the credit in an […]
While reporting from the peak of the AXPONA summit, I decided to do my show coverage a little differently this year. Continuing the trend from last year, AXPONA has gotten so large and there are […]
When I mention that AXPONA 2023 was a great-sounding show, and that room after room hit the mark and provided sound that might win a Best of Show award at any other venue, that might […]
If you pay enough attention while moving through AXPONA, a brownish-gray character starts to become a familiar sight in many great sounding rooms, a character that peers out of the racks with its little red […]
I don’t know why I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve hung out with Damon Von Schweikert and Leif Swanson of VSA, but it was such a relief to see them at AXPONA 2023. […]
It was a genuine joy to watch Klipsch get a little Esoteric at AXPONA 2023. As an audiophile it is sometimes easy to forget that we all started out as music lovers, or at least […]
If I haven’t made myself clear yet, I do like this little monitor from Latvia, the Aretai Contra 100S ($9,000/pr USD). I’ve heard them several times now, starting with Munich last May, and I think […]
I’m usually cautious about my coverage of Unison Research and Opera, and for the same reason I’m cautious discussing Cardas Audio cables. I don’t want anyone to accuse me of conflict of interest, mostly because […]
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