Spotlight Review
CES 2017
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This CES was my first. Thing is, it just might be my last. Consensus among fellow journalists, hi-fi manufacturers, distributors, and bricks & mortar owners is that [...] -
by Brian Hunter While studying photography post grad, I came across a photographer who had been at it since nearly the inception of the medium. To her, black and white was [...] -
by Brian Hunter of Audio-Head Even though 2-channel rooms at CES appeared slightly diluted to a few floors in the Venetian, the giant machine that is audio in general roared [...] -
Rarefied air. That kind of sums up the Japanese house of Air Tight for me. The Osaka-based bespoke electronics manufacturer celebrated its 30th anniversary last April, which [...] -
This year, I decided to do the accelerated CES 2017 tour. With some loss of good judgement, I created a flight plan in and out of Vegas from Seattle in a single day with [...]
RMAF 2016
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Lee Scoggins offered up his photo portrait tour from RMAF this year. These are the people that made this show great. Well, at least some of them. [...] -
RMAF was my first true love. I kid, sorta, but if it wasn’t for my first RMAF back in 2010, I probably wouldn’t have done this site. I remember kinda sneaking off [...] -
I approached this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest with a strange mix of excitement and trepidation. The long-time venue of the Denver Tech Center Marriott was in the [...] -
Escaping on the last jet out of Denver after the close of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016, I felt a little like the nervous spy-support staff member Faisil in the 1994 movie [...] -
Everybody seemed to want something: More rooms, more space, bigger rooms, less tents, an area for social gatherings, a proper restaurant and bar… the list goes on, but [...]
TAVES 2016
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By Richard H. Mak At 5 pm on Sunday, I stayed behind to help DVL Audio as well as Audio by Mark Jones with packing up their equipment, and it was at that moment I realized [...] -
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CAF 2016
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I’ve been to a lot of audio shows, it’s true. Doesn’t make me an expert, however — there are a few decades of these things that I simply don’t [...] -
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T.H.E. Show @ Newport 2016
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OK, I grant you that it has been a couple of months since the end of T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach. So, what the heck is your motley Part-Time Audiophile crew doing still [...] -
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High End Society in Munich 2016
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If you are kind enough as to read through the end, you will also know my favorite rooms of this year’s Munich’s High End show. But first, let me tell you why we do show [...] -
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AXPONA 2016
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My first AXPONA was five years ago in Atlanta. It was about as far from 2016 as you can get. Then, there was something like 20 rooms. Five years later, and the difference is [...] -
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CanJam Global: SoCal
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CanJam SoCal was a fantastic show. I’ll be honest — I wasn’t expecting much. CanJam, for me and many others, has always been an entirely embedded affair, [...] -
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