RMAF 2015: VTL, Wilson cuddle up
Some audio manufacturers seem to be almost skipping the prototype stage these days and instead leave it to buyers to do the testing. Issues? Improvements? We’ll just get ‘em in Series II or Series III, […]
Some audio manufacturers seem to be almost skipping the prototype stage these days and instead leave it to buyers to do the testing. Issues? Improvements? We’ll just get ‘em in Series II or Series III, […]
“Come over here, John. There’s someone you need to meet. He’s got some awesome new tube amps….” I had barely draped my press badge around my neck after checking in Thursday evening at the Rocky […]
My dad never liked gravy. “You don’t need it,” he’d say, whether we were having turkey, roast beef or meatloaf. He liked the taste “unadulterated.” I, on the other hand, used to put gravy on […]
Running around the Westin San Francisco hotel for three days with a press badge on, feeling like John Atkinson (or even, shrudder, Scot Hull), certainly had its moments. Even though I’ve been attending high-end exhibitions […]
No other speaker component gets as much attention from innovators and fiddlers as the tweeter. It’s easy to understand why: your ears can forgive some weaknesses in the bass or even the midrange, but if […]
You can lead music lovers to a better lifestyle system, but can you make them buy? That’s the question a lot of companies are asking as they seek to offer an alternative to crappy department-store […]
Reviewers are prone to wax poetic about speakers they like, often saying they “present a clear window to the music.” Not many transducers literally are a clear pane of glass, though. The new Clara from […]
I’m always a bit suspicious of high-end speakers sporting cabinets that cost the designers a chunk of change to manufacture. You know, rare hardwoods, automobile-painted polymer resins, structural foam, even metal. The result usually is […]
The first time I ever saw Nordost cable was 20 years ago at a now-defunct high-end store in Dallas. I looked behind a KEF 107/2 speaker and saw it was connected with this ultra-cool looking […]
Do you ever notice that when makers of sleek, well-finished speakers photograph them, it’s usually in a spotless, contemporary room in a house straight out of the old “Miami Vice” series? You can’t fault manufacturers […]
I had just plopped down in a front-row, sweet-spot seat for what was about my 20th room of the day at the California Audio Show. Drawn in by the sight of two huge speakers, I […]
Every high-end audio enthusiast has his or her likes and dislikes, whether they will admit it or not. When the person is paid to write about the hobby, we tend to call them biases, a […]
Acoustic Zen Technologies president Robert Lee is a master at making things disappear. Stuff like distortion, frequency irregularities and resonances. But as I sat listening to his rarely exhibited flagship speaker, the Maestro ($43,000 a […]
Two visitors to the large Music Lovers Audio room at the California Audio Show slowly approached a Wilson Sasha II W/P speaker. “That’s the new tweeter,” one said in hushed tones. “Wow,” said the […]
The California Audio Show kicks off Friday in San Francisco with sunshine, live music, a literal mountain of vinyl and some much-anticipated world premiers for the gearheads. I use the latter term in the most […]
Part-Time Audiophile How hot was the gear at the 2014 Audio Expo of North America? So hot a fire alarm briefly cleared the four show floors of Chicago’s Westin O’Hare midway through day two [yes, […]
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