It’s finally happened. After years of waiting, of endless static displays, of reading other people’s reviews, of learning that the boss has a pair for his desktop system, I’ve finally sat down and spent some […]
In the spirit of curiosity, I want to present the Laufer Teknik “The Note,” a $32,500/pair line array that features approximately 10,000 one-inch drivers suspended by a single thread! Okay, no, that’s not what happened here, but […]
Klaus Bunge of Odyssey Audio is impossible to miss. He’s big. He is passionately loud. He makes grand, sweeping statements. He is over-the-top in a larger-than-life kind of way. And he also puts on the best demos at audio […]
One of my now-vague, still-formative experiences in the way-back archives was a Grande Utopia system from Focal. I remember the speakers were just massive — as was the sound. And I remember that correlation — […]
Can the reigning Chocolate Chip Trip champion, the Acora VRC-1 loudspeakers, defend the title it won at the 2023 Florida Audio Expo in February? Yeah, I know the Acora Acoustics room at FLAX also was […]
Why Team Joseph? Well, I could call it Team Doshi or Team J. Sikora or Team Berkeley Audio. But we have a bad habit at high-end audio shows of giving all the credit in an […]
While reporting from the peak of the AXPONA summit, I decided to do my show coverage a little differently this year. Continuing the trend from last year, AXPONA has gotten so large and there are […]
When I mention that AXPONA 2023 was a great-sounding show, and that room after room hit the mark and provided sound that might win a Best of Show award at any other venue, that might […]
If you pay enough attention while moving through AXPONA, a brownish-gray character starts to become a familiar sight in many great sounding rooms, a character that peers out of the racks with its little red […]
I don’t know why I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve hung out with Damon Von Schweikert and Leif Swanson of VSA, but it was such a relief to see them at AXPONA 2023. […]
It was a genuine joy to watch Klipsch get a little Esoteric at AXPONA 2023. As an audiophile it is sometimes easy to forget that we all started out as music lovers, or at least […]
If I haven’t made myself clear yet, I do like this little monitor from Latvia, the Aretai Contra 100S ($9,000/pr USD). I’ve heard them several times now, starting with Munich last May, and I think […]
I’m usually cautious about my coverage of Unison Research and Opera, and for the same reason I’m cautious discussing Cardas Audio cables. I don’t want anyone to accuse me of conflict of interest, mostly because […]
During AXPONA 2023, I received a text from PTA‘s Matthew Partrick with a photo of SerhanSwift Mu2 MK II monitors, and a note that said I should check them out because they’re really “up my […]
During AXPONA 2023, I had many people come up to me and ask if I’d heard the Rethm room yet. I didn’t drop by until first thing Sunday morning, when all was relatively quiet and […]
The Alexander Suite at this year’s AXPONA was a real treat. It featured one of the new offerings from Avantgarde, the Duo GT, a fully active horn speaker. In case there’s any ambiguity forthcoming, the […]
Brian already talked a bit about the new ZMF headphones debuting here at AXPONA (and available later this month), the closed-back Atrium. I’ll offer that the detail coming out of these headphones was easily on […]
It was a triumphant return to semi-normalcy in a way. AXPONA 2023 had sold out their available space and offered up over 200 listening rooms plus the Ear Gear Expo and marketplace convention halls. Things […]
It seems like it’s been forever since I’ve seen Christopher Hildebrand of Fern & Roby. Actually, it doesn’t seem like a long time since I’ve seen Fern & Roby, considering my equipment rack is similar […]
Just inside the door to this-year’s Ear Gear Expo (or, as I overheard one show-goer call it, the “Eargasm Explosion”), was fan-favorite Moon Audio. I have to admit, their tables are a kind of madness. […]
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