Brian Zolner of Bricasti Design has a good reason to be smiling. His new under $30k/pair (est.) 200wpc M28 mono amplifiers are simply outstanding. His M1 DAC has been sitting on top of the A+ […]
I make fun of Lou Hinkley for a couple of reasons. One, he has an excellent sense of humor. Two, he rarely shows it, preferring by far to phone in his amusement with just a […]
Aaron Hoffman’s Kanso Audio Furniture may well be the most high-tech audio racks out there. They’re also kind of stealthy. You wouldn’t notice, for example, that each shelf is a laminate of several different materials, […]
At CAF this year, Surreal Speakers was demonstrating that there’s really no such thing as too much bass. Generally, this is a message I can get behind. Doug Small was showing off the FC 2-12+12 […]
Howard Swayne of Live Sound Design re-created a classic RCA bass horn, added a replica of an Altec 1505, threw in some Altec amps restored and modified by Tom Tutay of Transition Audio Designs, and […]
I’m pretty sure it’s a sign of old age when you start referring to your stories by number. Or maybe it’s just superior indexing? Ah, well. Anyway, audio story #1,287 is about Doug White at […]
Jeff Catalano is something of a legend on the audio show circuit, and may well be the only man I know of even more militantly pro-vinyl than Stereophile’s Michael Fremer. In fact, when the two […]
Capital Audiofest is currently underway, and I just snuck off for a quick update here. Yes, there’s going to be way more coming, but in the meantime, a teaser of a teaser. Brian Hunter and […]
At some point in the recent past, I got a wild hair up my netherwheres about headphone cables and spent a few weeks wringing my hands about the relative impact that stock cables make on […]
This Friday marks the Fifth Annual sonic block party known as Capital Audiofest. I’ve been lucky enough to track this show from its inception; in fact, this may be the show that redirected this site […]
Normally, I wouldn’t jump back in so quickly, but if you’re at all curious about the deepblue2 campaign currently underway over at Indiegogo, your time to jump in and snatch up some early-bird pricing is slipping away. […]
My biggest fear in writing just about anything is that I’m not going to do the subject justice. These are only words, after all, and far too often what I intend to convey and what […]
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis As recently as a couple of decades ago, just about everyone involved in the audio biz gave the turntable a farewell salute. Sales dropped rapidly and historic names like Micro Seiki, […]
Just over a year ago, Peachtree Audio announced their newest loudspeaker system, called “deepblue“. The name was a clever turn on the primary wireless technology in use, Bluetooth, and the fact that the unit actually […]
by John Grandberg A few months back I surveyed the “affordable” sealed headphone landscape, ending up with a good number of competitors that I felt comfortable recommending. The most expensive of them was well under […]
I got a message a couple of weeks ago from Coffman Labs PR whiz and TONEPub contributor Rob Johnson. Damon Coffman, in cooperation with Cypher Labs, was coming out with a new headphone amp. There […]
I’m under no illusions. There have always been issues around critics and criticism for pretty much as long as there has been critics and criticism. I suppose it wouldn’t be all that weird to say […]
I don’t want to bury the lede, so let’s start with one basic fact: a pair Burwell & Sons Homage speakers costs $80,000. Let that sink in. Eighty thousand dollars. I wanted to get that […]
Not more than a couple of decades ago, just about everyone involved in the audio biz gave turntables a farewell salute. Sales dropped rapidly and historic names like Micro Seiki, SAEC and Fidelity Research faded […]
by John Richardson We all know the saying that big things sometimes come in small packages. However, we normally don’t apply this logic to powerful stereophonic amplifiers, especially of the class AB variety. Well, I’ve […]
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