Regular readers will know by now that Dave McNair, myself and the rest of the PTA Team have an enormous amount of respect and appreciation for Acora Acoustics and founder Valerio Cora, who is perhaps […]
Wes Katzir of Common Wave HiFi runs a shop which can only be described as radical. In a repurposed industrial loft in Downtown Los Angeles—my old haunt—Common Wave has more brands than you can shark […]
At Axpona 2022 B&W was advertising a new spider design for their midrange basket with some astonishing measured improvements. While I didn’t get a chance for a long audition there, I thought what I heard […]
I’d never heard of these fine folks before, namely because the companies is quite new. The banner outside their room which declared ‘The Hollywood Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music’ was not just […]
The Zingali Acoustics room with JMF Audio electronics was, I believe, the largest showroom at the show. In past years the Zingali speakers have made good showings in smaller rooms, but this year got to […]
Victor Kung was thrilled to see me at THE Show and was showing a very cool selection of gear from Sun Valley, Elekit and others sold at VKMusic. Victor specializes in these DIY kits, though […]
Wynn Audio always makes a strong showing with Vimberg, and T.H.E. Show Long Beach was no different. Words and Photos by Grover Neville Imaging performance in many of the hotel rooms was a challenge, but […]
John McGurk of Audioshield Distribution and Jonathan Ellis of Audio Chamber of Murrieta CA, were showing Credo, Meitner and all of his other great brands at Long Beach this year, and they sounded as spry […]
One of the more interesting experiences I had at the show was in the Black Ocean Audio room. The company founder, Nick Tarnofsky, has a fascinating backstory—a working musician and engineer, he suffered from a […]
The GoldenEar BRX loudspeakers, much to my chagrin, are chameleonic. That made me wonder whether or not transducers should be chameleonic. And then I wondered if chameleonic was a real word, so I looked it […]
If you haven’t noticed, I write two types of equipment reviews. The first type involves some piece of gear from a manufacturer I know well. I have history. I can spin a yarn about this […]
I tend to bolt up straight whenever I hear the name Kevin Volans. During my journeyman audiophile days back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Kevin Volans’ White Man Sleeps suite for string quartet […]
FOCAL Powered by NAIM Taking over the world of hi-fi one planetary orbit at a time, FOCAL Powered by NAIM opens two new and unique listening spaces. Following the Houston, Texas location, both Miami, Florida […]
The TIDAL Audio Contros has arrived! What is a digital controller? The new TIDAL Audio Contros is the combination of core technologies from three separate TIDAL Audio products. Firstly, the Camira digital-to-analog converter, the Arkas […]
Thanks to my busy late-spring schedule, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a music review for VA. That means I’ve been sitting on a lot of fantastic new releases, keeping them to myself, […]
Ampsandsound Bryce, Introduction(s) Ampsandsound Bryce is the name, 13″ wide, 7″ tall, KT88 equipped. Licensed to thrill. (website) Some of you may recall my previous review of the Ampsandsound Zion Monoblocks, which remain the best […]
There’s an important foreword to my love story with the Lab12 Integre4 integrated amplifier. A few years ago, shortly after I joined the PTA team and started work on my first issue of The Occasional […]
A known digital junkie and nap enthusiast, Michael Fremer, is getting the band back together…(insert sliding needle scratch) wait, what?? If you were lucky (or old enough) to skim the pages of The Tracking Angle […]
Zu Audio launched their new Union 6 Series today, with a floorstander leading the charge, and more speakers in the Union 6 Series to come soon, and sooner. Union Bookshelf Union 6 Union 6 Supreme […]
Pacific Audio Fest 2022 will be here faster than a scalded haint. That said, it’s best to heed the urgent message we received from PAF headquarters just this afternoon. PRESS RELEASE The Pacific Audio Fest […]
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