I got a chance to meet NY audio dealer (and PTA sponsor) Shayne Tenace of Tenace Audio at this year’s New York show, and happily for me, Shayne brought along some new speakers from Italian […]
I like to joke about big speakers being some kind of compensation thing, but the truth is, they have a distinctive sonic presence that’s just impossible to fake. They sound, not to put too fine […]
Kirsten wrote about Muraudio for Part-Time Audiophile back at Newport, but New York was the first time yours truly got his eyes and ears on. Guess what? They’re awesome. For those fans of MBL’s Radialstrahler 360° degree […]
MBL-North America was showing their $259,000 “Combination D” at the New York Audio Show, and the crowd was very appreciative. Combo D is fronted by the 101E MkII Radialstrahler loudspeakers, the 1621A CD Transport, the 1611F D/A […]
I was having a serious déjà vu thing with the Sony Walkman all weekend. Every time I turned around, it seemed, I was making a comment about my old safety-yellow Walkman from 30 years ago. […]
Raymond Li of ADL beckoned me over the ADL table. I’m pretty sure he waggled his eyebrows when he said that the GT40 had just been updated (now called “GT40 Alpha”) — the ADC/DAC USB […]
The New York Audio Show say the launch of a new brand: Vinnie Rossi LIO. You’ll remember Vinnie from Red Wine Audio, the company that sells affordable, battery-powered, electronics that won all of those awards […]
One of the last things I worked on for Robert Harley, editor of The Absolute Sound, was his coffee-table opus, The Illustrated History of High-End Audio. My bit was a chapter on Sandy Gross, co-founder […]
Ah, New York. I love New York! I do. I do not, however, love driving to New York. Or flying to New York. The train? I’m so-so about the train. But driving? Bah. So, I […]
I’m going to confess something. Ready? Headphones and headphone audio systems can be hard to like. The issue is context, for me. I come at audio’s high-end by way of two-channel and multi-channel audio systems. Big […]
Don’t forget! The 2014 New York Audio Show starts today — and coverage will hit The Audio Traveler pretty much asap. Stay tuned and visit often!
Don’t know about you, but I love listening to music. Not just the radio when driving or the occasional record. I start my day with music and one too many times I refuse to hit […]
Talk about a kerfuffle. After struggling through a late winter snow, the Chicago show decided last year that March was not the best time to rely on a lake weather or count on an early […]
Say hello to the newest member of the team, The Audio Traveler. Kirsten, Malachi, John and Panagiotis have all signed up to lend a hand covering that wonderfully perverse world of the traveling audio show. The […]
by Darryl Lindberg As Ralphie poignantly noted in A Christmas Story, “just when all seems right with the world” chaos inevitably lurks around the corner, ready to disrupt our reveries. Or, to put it another […]
by John Grandberg State of the Art It’s a great time for computer-based audio. Just ask Chris Connaker from Computer Audiophile. His site started in 2007 and has grown to become kind of a big […]
By Michael Mercer Introducing Glove The DAP (digital audio player) segment has exploded in the past two years. Innovation is driving rapid product progression. What you bought two years ago will not be obsolete, exactly, […]
Carla Bozulich, Boy Constellation Canada LP Ethyl Meatplow. Geraldine Fibbers. Scarnella. Evangelista. And … Carla Bozulich. The absurdly talented Carla Bozulich’s nomadic recording personae share one distinction: fearlessness. It’s possible she doesn’t always know where she’s […]
As a closer to my California Audio Show coverage, I’m going to tell you a little story about how I broke my own rule. CAS was really meant to be the cherry on top of […]
Running around the Westin San Francisco hotel for three days with a press badge on, feeling like John Atkinson (or even, shrudder, Scot Hull), certainly had its moments. Even though I’ve been attending high-end exhibitions […]
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