Awards
Best of 2015 and Product of the Year
2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, everyone is gone, and WTF […]
Year: 2015
Headphones
Review: OPPO HA-1 headphone amplifier and PM-1 headphones
This is the story about doing the impossible. This is a story about overcoming the Friend Zone. I received the OPPO HA-1 headphone amp ($1199) and PM-1 headphones ($1099) for review along with a pretty large shipment […]
Loudspeakers
Review: ELAC Debut B6 and F5 Loudspeakers
It shouldn’t be weird. I think that is the main point that John and Steve were driving at, back in New York. Not that it couldn’t be done. Or even that it hadn’t ever been […]
Show Report
Warsaw 2015: Wrap Up
By Thomas Hyniewski and Norman Williams This is a personal appreciation on the part of your Part Time-Audiophile team, self-projected from Geneva to the Warsaw Audio (and Video) Show (WAS). This was our second serious […]
Lifestyle
The Smoking Jacket: The Down Under Smoker
by Marc Phillips Have I told you about my trip to Australia this summer? That’s kind of an in-joke around here, since I can’t seem to shut up about it and I’m really starting to […]
Analog
Review: Luminous Audio Arion and ModWright PH150 Phono Preamplifiers
By cheerfully weird happenstance, I received two world-class phono preamplifiers, pretty much right on top of each other. The first to arrive was the Arion phonostage ($6,395) from Tim Stinson of Luminous Audio. Tim Stinson was beside […]
Announcements
Command Performance: Clearaudio Statement with Aesthetix on Dec 12th
On Saturday December 12th, from 12-5pm, Musical Surroundings will demonstrate the one-of-a-kind Clearaudio Statement turntable. This is the FIRST showing of the new Statement on the East Coast! Along with this table, they will also demonstrate […]
Music
Music from Janet Feder, T H I S C L O S E
— by Paul Ashby Janet Feder is from Boulder, Colorado. She’s a songwriter, a singer, and plays a custom-made nylon string baritone guitar. Sometimes she treats the strings with thread and metal objects. Her orbit […]
Show Report
Warsaw 2015: A multimillion no-joke Vox Olympian
By Thomas Hyniewski, Photos courtesy of StereoLife I have often wondered how much an ultimate speaker setup would require in production costs and thus what market price it could bring. Now I know (it’s a […]
Show Report
Warsaw 2015: Martin Logan Neolith
By Thomas Hyniewski This year we were thankfully blessed by a heavy rain of loudspeakers hors de l’ordinaire: Martin Logan, Zeta Zero, B&W, Living Voice, FM Acoustics, Triangle and many, many more… Attending the Warsaw-AS regularly, […]
Digital
Review: Exogal Comet DAC
by John Richardson It’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed a high-end digital to analog converter, or DAC. Back when I was frequently contributing at Stereomojo.com, I was sort of their go-to DAC guy. It was […]
Components
Review: Audion Super Sterling 120 stereo amplifier
by Malachi Kenney True Confessions It must have been at least a decade ago when the Single-Ended bug bit me. The usual thing happened, of course. I’d heard a single-ended 50 playing through some AER […]
RMAF 2015
RMAF 2015: Lee’s Best
It is quite difficult to single out the best products given that there are so many great products on demo at RMAF every year. So I’m going to cheat a little and mention a couple […]
RMAF 2015
RMAF 2015: End of Line and Best in Show
Every year, I plan to wrap RMAF coverage up early. Every year, it goes later and later. It’s because I’m cursed. But this year, we were able to pile it pretty high and deep. 90 […]
Announcements
Under $400 Holiday Buyer’s Guide Part 3: Other Stuff
Welcome to your completely unnecessary and wholly unsolicited Part-Time Audiophile guide to the holidays, Part 3 of a bazillion. You’re welcome. Books Got books? Chances are, you’re spending all your money on LPs, but on the […]
Analog
Under $400 Holiday Buyer’s Guide Part 2: Vinyl and Digital
Welcome to your completely unnecessary and wholly unsolicited Part-Time Audiophile guide to the holidays, Part 2 of a bazillion. You’re welcome. Vinyl Affordable vinyl is not impossible, but it is not a given either. You […]
Announcements
Under $400 Holiday Buyer’s Guide Part 1: Headphones and Speakers
Welcome to your completely unnecessary and wholly unsolicited Part-Time Audiophile guide to the holidays, Part 1 of a bazillion. You’re welcome. Headphones This category is something of a cheat — there’s quite a lot of “portable/personal […]
Loudspeakers
Review: Daedalus Audio Ulysses v2
Got Wood? Lou Hinkley’s choice of using solid wood in his loudspeaker designs may be something of a throwback. An anachronism. I like to think of it as a semi-deliberate “up yours” to the armchair philosophers […]
RMAF 2015
RMAF 2015: Rafe’s Best
Best Room Picking Tone Imports as my top choice for Best Room in Denver for me was easy because it was run by two people whose ears I implicitly trust, whose taste runs parallel to […]
RMAF 2015
RMAF 2015: Darryl’s Best
by Darryl Lindberg Best room: High Water Sound To my way of thinking, the “best room” award must encompass not only the sound, but the overall environment. Is this someplace you go to enjoy listening […]