May 12, 2024
In the Spotlight

Saturday at the Munich Show | Munich 2024

by Marc Phillips in Munich 2024 0

After the heady excesses from Friday at the 2024 Munich Show, the Saturday highlights focus less on the incredible and more on simply incredible sound. There was a point, after lunch on Saturday, where I [...]

Munich 2024 brought to you by Underwood HiFi






Announcements

Focal Hadenys and Azurys Headphones Debut | Announcements

May 7, 2024 – Focal/Naim introduces Focal Hadenys (ah den ees) and Focal Azurys (ah zur ees), open- and closed-back headphones, making the purity of high-fidelity sound accessible to as many people as possible. Born [...]





Latest Gear Reviews

AXPONA 2024 Highlights

AXPONA 2024

Zesto and TIDAL Audio | AXPONA 2024

The Zesto Audio and The Voice That Is room, which also included Cardas, TIDAL Audio, Ortofon, Dr. Feickert Analog, Stillpoints and Tri-Planar, benefitted from the set-up talents of Doug White. Doug White, if you don’t […]











The Best Stuff! | Buyers Guide 2024

Buyers Guide

2023 Product of the Year

I’ve made a few changes for the 2023 Product of the Year Awards. Usually I limit the nominees to products our team at PTA has reviewed over the year. That implies we have significant seat […]

Buyers Guide

2023 Best Value Awards

PTA’s 2023 Best Value Awards are marked by an underlying theme, that old audio reviewer canard of saying “I liked it so much, I bought it!” Many of the 2023 Best Value nominees below are […]

Got Music?

Black Dress Ballads by Lyn Stanley | The Vinyl Anachronist

The arrival of Lyn Stanley‘s latest album, Black Dress Ballads, just so happened to coincide with the arrival of an impressive new vinyl rig–the J. Sikora Initial Max turntable with two 12″ tonearms. Whenever I [...]

PTA On the Road

Deep Cuts