Announcements
The Best of 2013
Here I am again, at the ass-end of the calendar, wondering how it’s possible that yet another year has gotten away from me. Going through it, I’m sure it seemed interminable at various points, but […]
Year: 2013
Publishers Desk
Thoughts on Headphones and the Future of the High-End
Why headphones are not going to save Hi-Fi by Scot Hull You’ve probably heard the news by now. Hi-Fi is dead. Rumor is, it was murdered. Poison! And it has 36 hours to learn who […]
Analog
Lamm LP2 Deluxe Phono Stage
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis There are legends in the hi-fi industry as in everything else. There is one, concerning a well-known US-based designer and his obsession for air transport as being the only safe way […]
Digital
Geek Pulse Hits Final Hours at $1.1M and Counting
Well, here we are in the final hours of LH Labs’ second crowd-funding campaign. Let’s do the numbers: On a $38k goal, they’ve raised over $1.1M. Shazam! To celebrate, there’s a whole host of “perks” added […]
Audio-Life
My Kind Of Santa
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis Down here in Athens, my personal Santa Claus goes by the name of Ares. No, he is not the war-god, he’s just the local mail man, the one that rides on […]
Publishers Desk
Part-Time Audiophile goes bananas on Enjoy The Music TV
In this episode, yours truly chugs an entire a carafe of coffee and attempts to sit down with Enjoy The Music’s Steven Rochlin to talk about whatever … which turns out to be a bit […]
Music
Music from Harold Budd, Cian Nugent & the Cosmos, John Lemke, and Favorites of 2013
by Paul Ashby Harold Budd, Perhaps Double LP, Root Strata I first heard Harold Budd in the early eighties while listening to The Pavilion of Dreams, his 1978 album for Brian Eno’s Obscure label. Californian Budd’s […]
Headphones
Woo Audio WA5 300B Amplifier
by Frank Iacone Woo Audio is a family business founded by Wei Wu and his two sons and the company has been making amplifiers in New York for the past 10 years. Wei has been designing […]
Audio-Life
Headphone Commute “… and darkness came” still donating for Hurricane Sandy Relief
I think it was about a year ago that I first downloaded (and contributed) the monster-sized album … and darkness came from Headphone Commute. The album was put together as a relief campaign, benefiting Hurricane Sandy […]
Audio-Life
The Price of Admission: Doing It Right
By Roger Skoff If I remember correctly, the ticket price for the last major-magazine-sponsored HiFi Show that I went to was $35 for one day and $75 for all three days of the event. If […]
Digital
LH Labs, their Crowd-Funded Geek Pulse, and a bunch of updates
Been a bit of a wild ride this past week with the Geek Pulse. With all the articles here, you’d think it was the only thing happening this holiday season. While it may not be […]
Music
Audio360.org’s Favorite Albums of 2013
by Stan Ahn, Arly Borges, Warren Chi, Scot Hull, Frank Iacone, Michael Liang, Michael Mercer, Lachlan Tsang, Kevin Venable, Ethan Wolf & Bowei Zhao The end of the year brings so many “Best of” lists […]
Components
Peachtree Audio novaPre and Peachtree220 amplifier
–by Brian Hunter Back in my early days of discovery in hifi (way before my involvement in media and show attendance) there were only a select few brands that had any consistent representation at retailers […]
Digital
Geek Pulse — Two Weeks Remain
The tick-tock of the clock is painful, all sane and logical. I want to tear it off the wall. In two short weeks, the LH Labs Indiegogo campaign will wind its way to an end. […]
Analog
A God of War, Gone Rogue: The Ares Phono Preamplifier Review
“He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.” — Jonathan Swift Mark O’Brien is a tall, striking and rather unassuming figure at most audio shows. He seems almost bemused by all the fuss and bother […]
Lifestyle
Passages: A Watch by William Shatner and Egard
Filed under: Looks Nifty Indiegogo is stuffed to the gills with nifty little projects. I’ve been tracking the LH Labs adventures with their Desktop Headphone Awesomifier, the Geek Pulse, with more than a little interest. […]
Publishers Desk
Holiday Gift Ideas?
Audiophilia, as a hobby (whether head-fi or hi-fi), isn’t really known for being … ah … affordable. In fact, I think there may be a Mystical Law somewhere that says when these two Realms collide, […]
Loudspeakers
Gallo Strada 2 and TR-3 Subwoofer System
— by John Richardson It’s not easy being green, or so says Kermit the Frog. I suppose that he means being different can be tough, but then again, Kermit is also famous (and presumably wealthy, […]
Digital
Geek Pulse destroys second stretch goal, closing on $400k
Thanksgiving and Black Friday were off-days for me, so it was fun to check in on the madness after the feeding frenzy yesterday. And guess what? The LH Labs team has now blown past their […]
Components
Magnepan and Tekton meet Pass Labs, Odyssey, Job, Merrill, Red Wine Audio, First Watt and Vitus Audio
Amplifier Madness Filed Under: Why The Hell Not. Wild hair? Yeah, maybe. Two over-achieving and “moderately priced” transducers fell into my Magical Hand of Loudspeakers — the Magnepan 3.7s and the Tekton Designs SEAS Pendragon […]