May 2019

Aurender | AXPONA 2019

May 5, 2019 Lee Scoggins 2

Visit any audio show and you will see lots of Aurender music servers in dozens of listening rooms. Before I got further into streaming, I honestly did not pay much attention. But at this show, […]

Wilson Audio, D’Agostino, dCS, and Clearaudio | AXPONA 2019

May 5, 2019 Lee Scoggins 3

About three years ago, I attended a fabulous demo with Peter McGrath in a room with a humble T+A integrated amplifier. The speakers were the $109,000 Wilson Audio Alexx, fairly large towers. Yet the humble […]

Jerome Sabbagh & Greg Tuohey’s No Filter | The Vinyl Anachronist

May 5, 2019 Marc Phillips 1

Jerome Sabbagh & Greg Tuohey’s new album, No Filter, possesses one heck of an audiophile pedigree. It was recorded live to 1/2″ two-track analog tape at 30 ips, it was mastered by Bernie Grundman at […]

Børresen, Aavik, Ansuz | AXPONA 2019

May 4, 2019 Lee Scoggins 2

I’ve been telling folks for about 12 months what an excellent emerging brand Børresen is. At AXPONA we were finally able to hear the flagship speaker, the Borresen 05. It was worth the wait. Michael […]

SweetVinyl Sugar Cube | AXPONA 2019

May 4, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off

by Paul Elliott Full Disclosure, 100% Transparency, no Redaction. I am a SweetVinyl Sugar Cube beta tester. I think it was 3 years ago, I walked into their room full of bright-eyed curiosity since I […]

Must See Rooms | Lone Star Audio Fest 2019

May 4, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 1

DALLAS (PTA) — This year’s LONE STAR AUDIO FEST is already on course to be their best sounding, and most fun yet. Lots of great sounding rooms happening at this show, and the competition between […]

Hørning, TW-Acustic, New Audio Frontiers | AXPONA 2019

May 4, 2019 Editorial Staff 1

o by Paul Elliott Jeffery Catalano of High Water Sound is, to say the least, an interesting fellow. I find that he always has the most interesting collection of music at these shows, pure “music […]

Merrill Audio introduces 114, new Gallium Nitride amp

May 3, 2019 Scot Hull 2

Merrill Audio (website) is bringing the costs down. Way down. I love it when that happens. In this case, we have an (r-)evolutionary advance on Class-D amplifiers, the tech that audiophiles love to hate. Despite the […]

Bricasti and Tidal | AXPONA 2019

May 3, 2019 Marc Phillips 1

I covered Bricasti and Tidal last fall during the Capital Audiofest, so this was another case of walking into a room at AXPONA 2019 and thinking that I knew what was going to happen and […]

Bayz Audio | AXPONA 2019

May 3, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off

by Paul Elliott Big Audio shows bring companies showing off new technologies. One I came across was Bayz Audio from Germany. As you can see from the pictures this is a unique speaker. The opposing […]

Voxativ Loudspeakers | AXPONA 2019

May 3, 2019 Editorial Staff 3

by Paul Elliott Voxativ has continually made big statements at Audio Shows. Last year at Rocky Mountain, CEO Holger Adler showed what I thought was the most beautiful amplifier ever produced. The Voxativ T805 integrated amp […]

Magnepan LRS Revealed | AXPONA 2019

May 2, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 9

CHICAGO (PTA) — Under sworn-secrecy and via a private-text-message, I was invited to partake in a time-sensitive meeting with Magnepan marketing manager Wendell Diller. The meeting took place in an unmarked and un-promoted location at […]

Credo, VPI Industries, Emm Labs, Meitner Audio, Van Den Hul, Kimber Kable, Falkenohr | AXPONA 2019

May 2, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off

CHICAGO (PTA) — Credo’s latest loudspeaker model (Cinema LTM) was presented for the first time at Axpona 2019. Together with Van den Hul, VPI Industries, EMM Labs, Kimber Kable and Falkenohr the system was epic. […]

SVS Sound | AXPONA 2019

May 2, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 1

CHICAGO (PTA) — The SVS Sound room will wow you to no end if you are looking for sub-woofer demonstrations that twist your guts around each other. But for the more refined ear, you might […]

AudioQuest, McIntosh and B&W | AXPONA 2019

May 2, 2019 Marc Phillips 1

AudioQuest, McIntosh and B&W. That almost seems like the answer to an audiophile question that begins with the words, “What would you buy if…?” I’ve met a bunch of New York audiophiles since I moved […]

Core Power Technologies A/V, Living Sounds Audio (LSA), PureAudio Lab, Emerald Physics, DSPeaker, Underwood HiFi | AXPONA 2019

May 1, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off

CHICAGO (PTA) — The first time I heard a Living Sounds Audio (LSA) monitor, I was shocked at their near-full-range bass and their ability to play so well after being assembled just one day before […]

Month: May 2019