By John Stancavage Longtime Chicago dealer Quintessence Audio knows how to make a statement. The first thing visitors to AXPONA 2015 saw, smack in front of the Westin Hotel O’Hare’s luggage dropoff zone, was the […]
By John Stancavage If you look at all the automobiles in production today, it’s hard to find many models that are very close to what they were 20 or even 30 years ago. Volkswagen’s Beetle […]
Josh already spilled his enthusiasm all over the floor about the big room featuring Volti Audio‘s speakers. Nobody should be surprised by this. I suspect that the sound in that room represented the Platonic […]
By John Stancavage What is tall, stealthy, prefers the cover of darkness, makes incredible sounds and is rarely seen in the wild? If you guessed a certain bipedal hominoid that’s the subject of so many […]
By Josh Emmons Truth be told, I am not deep enough into this whole high-end audio game to reliably tease out attributes from the front-end of a system. Yet even I have two things I […]
By Josh Emmons
by Joshua Emmons Calyx Audio is a South Korean manufacturer that produces an array of digital processors and amps for home audio enthusiasts. But at AXPONA, they were all about portables. Calyx M The Calyx […]
by Joshua Emmons I don’t envy Noble Audio in their crusade to convert the world to IEMs. First, people intuitively believe big sound comes from big drivers, and unless you’re doing it wrong, IEMs will […]
by Joshua Emmons If you walk into a room at AXPONA, and it’s noticeably 3–4 degrees warmer than the hallway, you know it’s chock full of really tasty amplifiers. So it is with Woo Audio: […]
by Josh Emmons If I have one goal at AXPONA, it’s to map the extremities of the law of diminishing returns as it applies to the world of hifi. When I started this journey a […]
by Joshua Emmons This being my first audio show, the stated intention of the Part-Time Audiophile folks is to throw me into the deep end. I’d say the Volti Audio room certainly qualifies. My experience […]
When it comes to show coverage, the worst ordeal isn’t the airline travel. It isn’t the lumpy hotel bed, or the long hours, the lack of sleep, or the series of crippling hangovers. The biggest […]
I spent last year being embarrassingly over-impressed with Benchmark‘s gear without ever remembering to use any of my own demo music. Fortunately, AXPONA presented me with my first chance to sit down and listen to […]
By Josh Emmons
The AXPONA Audio Con started out as a bit of a logistical challenge for The Audio Traveler crew this year. Non-audio responsibilities kept our publisher, Scot Hull, away from the show at the same time […]
By John Stancavage
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