Athens 2013
The Athens AVshow 2013
–By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis I bet you all heard the news: Greece is facing a financial meltdown and the last couple of years have been an economical nightmare for most of us living down here. […]
Blog
Digital
Resonessence Labs Concero HD
— by John Grandberg DACs are big business these days. If Scot directed all us contributors to cover one significant DAC release every month, we’d probably keep busy just from that alone – with no […]
RMAF 2013
RMAF 2013 Teaser, Part 1
This show is the Mega Mother of the Regionals, and now, the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest is celebrating its 10th annual extravaganza. On tap, there will be 5,285 rooms and one BAZILLION vendors all jammed […]
Vintage
Sound & Archeology: Vintage Marantz
— by William Caraher In my first post for Part-Time Audiophile, I mused about the relationship between hi-fi and reality, and concluded that anything that encourages us to reflect on the meaning of reality has […]
Lifestyle
Spirited Away: Evan Williams, Noah’s Mill, Black Maple Hill, Angel’s Envy
It’s a fact, good whiskey is expensive. My beloved single malt scotch is even more so. In fact, it’s absurdly expensive. As in, violating the Julia Rule expensive. The question of why scotch is so expensive is […]
Components
Follow up: the Audiophile Desktop from CEntrance and the Masterclass 2504
Rememeber the Audiophile Desktop from CEntrance? Let me refresh your memory. $2,000 gets you a CEntrance DACmini PX, a pair of Masterclass 2504 speakers, and a hefty Pelican case to lug them around in. The PX […]
Digital
Thermionic DSD, LampizatOr Style
— by Norman Williams There is a bit of confusion over the various LampizatOr Levels, due in part to a lag in updating the website. Lukasz Fikus, Mr LampizatOr, is more often than not burning […]
Music
Music from Bruce Langhorne, Blaze Foley, William Tyler
–by Paul Ashby Bruce Langhorne, The Hired Hand In 1971, Peter Fonda, ricocheting off the commercial success and counterculture impact of “Easy Rider,” was a bankable personality in Hollywood. Universal, to its credit, stayed out […]
Analog
The Air Tight PC-1 Supreme Phono Cartridge
— by Darryl Lindberg So, you need a new phono cartridge, but what to do? If you’ve liked that particular record scraper strapped to your arm, do you get it rebuilt (assuming it’s a moving […]
Components
Pass Labs XP-30 Preamplifier: Review
Up to and until designer Wayne Coburn gets around to an Xs version, the current top-of-the-line linestage from Pass Labs is the XP-30. It’s an exercise in meticulousness. The entire thing is dual-mono, and when […]
Audio-Life
Show. Me. The Money.
By Roger Skoff All told, counting both Las Vegas and Chicago, I’ve probably attended about twenty-five Consumer Electronics Shows (CES). Once was as a “sneak-in” (You know, an audiophile with friends in the industry who […]
Components
A visit with Dick Olsher’s DIY Slagle Autoformer Volume Control, or, The Brotherhood of the Traveling Preamp
In 2011, Enjoy The Music posted an article by Dick Olsher on a DIY project, the Slagle Autoformer Volume Control (AVC for short). I remember reading it, getting excited about it, and flailing fruitlessly around, wondering where […]
Headphones
Woo Audio WA6-SE Vacuum Tube Headphone Amplifier
–by Brian Hunter Anyone who has spent time with the headphone community has undoubtedly crossed paths with Woo Audio at some point. Jack Wu has been producing quality amplifier pieces on both the loudspeaker and […]
Components
In Focus: The Astell&Kern AK100 [Updated]
The Astell& Kern AK100 is a digital audio player and headphone amplifier. Think of it as a portable library and playback system for all your high-quality content. It’s (relatively) easy to use, almost definitely sounds […]
Digital
Channel D Seta Buffer | Review
One of the coolest parts of this “job” is that I, very occasionally, get to play with something entirely sweet, new, and altogether unexpected. I’m pretty sure it’s the Old Spice. Anyway, let me introduce […]
Headphones
CEntrance HiFi-M8: A Revolution in Portable Fidelity
By Michael Mercer I’m addicted to the CEntrance HiFi-M8. I haven’t used my reference desktop headphone rig since I received my M8 three weeks ago. That reference rig that’s been lying dormant? My E.A.R HP4 […]
Audio-Life
R.I.P. Ray Dolby
“To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is […]
Analog
Musical Fidelity M1 ViNL Phono Preamplifier
— by Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis In the quest for better sound many vinyl lovers will find themselves buying a cartridge that they once heard in a friend’s house or a retail store, only to find […]
Publishers Desk
Art in a time of war
Well, here it is again. Anniversary Day. Fantastic. I know many of you are wandering about your day, bouncing around the haphazardly placed obstacles of memory as if you’re a bearing in a pinball machine. […]
Audio-Life
More delectable than Swiss chocolate is Swiss audio, or, another visit with darTZeel’s Hervé Delétraz
— by Norman Williams My second visit with Hervé Delétraz was a holy crap experience. His demo room has just recently been totally redone and I must have been one of the first guests, if […]