First Listen: Magnepan 3.7
Got a call today from Magnepan — the first of the new Magnepan 3.7s have left the factory! The only dealer anywhere near my neighborhood was The Gifted Listener in [...]
Loudspeakers
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In the Company of Giants: A day with the Revel Ultima Salon 2
Luckily for me, Evolution A/V in Tyson’s Corner, VA, has a pair of Revel Ultima Salon 2s on the floor. I hit the showroom at about lunchtime as I figured it’d be [...]
Cornucopia: A Full Range Followup
Well, ask and you shall receive. I’ve been soliciting feedback from anyone who’ll provide it as to what would be a great, but not stratospherically priced, [...]
First Impressions: Transmision Audio M1i monitors
Sometimes, but only occasionally, an every so often kind of thing happens. Today, I had one of those things happen. I got to audition a Transmission Audio M1i monitor. These [...]
Magnepan, O’ Magnepan, where art thou?
The Magnepan 3.7 was announced at CES this January, to great fanfare, cannonade and flights of angles. Just about every reviewer that has heard them has waxed poetic about [...]
It Will Blow Your Mind: a Date with the Smyth Realizer
I am not a fan of the sheer amount of hyperbole that seems to roll off of the typical audiophile writer’s pen, so let me say this with complete sincerity. The Smyth [...]
Magical Merlin Mystery?
There were several reasons I bought a new pair of Merlin’s flagship speakers, the VSM-MXR (or MXM, as they may yet be called — don’t ask). One of which was [...]
Magic is in the air
DB Schenker managed to route my new Merlin VSM-MXR speakers through an extra state or two, so that I finally received them at 8pm the night before Christmas Eve. Needless to [...]
Joseph Audio Pulsar Loudspeakers [updated]
Mini-Pearl! I just spent yet another day with Joseph Audio’s “Mini-Pearl” (thank you, Steven Stone), the Pulsar. Another very satisfying day. If you [...]
Joseph Audio Pearl 2 Loudspeakers
My New Reference Let me apologize in advance. This review is unapologetically enthusiastic and may be laced with an absurd amount of superlatives. I tried to tone it down, [...]