RMAF 2016: Rupert Neve Joins The Fun
There are few names bandied around in pro audio with more reverence than Rupert Neve who famous for his high quality mixing consoles, mic preamps, and equalizers. Rupert and team guessed that not only pros […]
There are few names bandied around in pro audio with more reverence than Rupert Neve who famous for his high quality mixing consoles, mic preamps, and equalizers. Rupert and team guessed that not only pros […]
Color me “intrigued”. Shinola and VPI have gone ahead and done something that makes my shriveled little heart grow three sizes, and just in time for the holidays. Shinola has been brand-building and brand-expanding for the […]
When trudging down the hallways of a hotel packed with $200K+ systems, finding an exhibit making great sound at a more affordable level is almost as refreshing as encountering a room with an enabled air-conditioner. […]
By Ken Micallef An infrequent communiqué on the best and worst in new and reissued vinyl titles from around the globe… Lord Classic Lord Classic represent a long lost notion: a New York City band […]
I had my glasses down at the end of my nose and my severely myopic eyes were about an inch from the screen of my Nikon D5300 as I attempted a Rafe Arnott-esque extreme close-up […]
Bricasti Designs is on a roll with two new products at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest this year: The M15 Stereo Amplifier ($18,000 USD), and the M12 Dual Mono Source Controller ($15,995). Co-founder, and company president […]
By Darryl Lindberg In the Dynamic Sound Associates (DSA) room, the ebullient David Sckolnick presided over a fine sounding system that featured DSA’s solid state electronics: the well-regarded Phono II ($13.5K) and Pre 1 ($16.5K), […]
Listen Up did something unexpected at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest. Unexpected, you say? Well, yes — unexpected, for me. I think many readers are familiar with brands like Bowers & Wilkins, Simaudio and AudioQuest. These are established brands. The “big […]
LampizatOr’s Lukasz Fikus was wandering the floor of the Hi-Fi Show Live this year, out on the grounds of the Beaumont Estate in Old Windsor in Berkshire, England. Enjoy.
This is another post that focuses on my continuing obsession with analog, record shops, and Japan in general. I stumbled across these videos chronicling some of the best Tokyo record shops open right now while […]
I have a confession: I started an emotional affair with the Vivid Audio Giya G3 after meeting her and her twin at several recent audio shows. But like most new girlfriends, I was attracted by […]
By Richard H. Mak The Angel City Audio room was a pleasant surprise, and one of my favorite sounding rooms in all of TAVES. Angel City Audio is a distributor based in California, under their umbrella […]
By Matthew Partrick Since going full-force into Roon 1.2 for the past few months, I’ve had a fantastic experience both in terms of sound quality and the interface. Roon has really knocked it out of the […]
I was in the middle of the mezzanine at the Denver Marriot Tech Center, about to break for lunch Saturday at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, when I heard a familiar tune wafting from a […]
By Richard H. Mak When the Bugatti Veyron debuted at the Toronto Auto Show in 2012, the $ 2 Million dollar price tag naturally generated a lot of buzz, it was the undisputed star of […]
Peter Madnick, founder of Audio Alchemy, dropped a news bomb on me as we stood chatting outside his room at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. I had just heard his compact, affordable electronics making a fine […]
Just got the word that AudioQuest is refreshing their headphone line. NightHawk isn’t all that long-in-the-tooth, but advances and refinements wait for no … something something something. Ahem. Long story short — they’ve went ahead and made […]
I didn’t know what was going on in the room. The music sounded amazing, there was a cool-looking turntable, there were amps, and speakers I’ve never seen, Spanish was being spoken, there was a flash […]
By Richard H. Mak The 2016 TAVES show is an overall success, kudos to Suave Kajko and Simon Au (President and Vice President of TAVES) for bringing in more exhibitors and new brands to the […]
An Instagram post surfaced yesterday that seemed to show a prototype Audio Note UK ladder DAC. Having had exposure to R2R DACs previously, I was familiar with how impressive, and immensely human their sound was, so […]
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