Mini-Review: GamuT Lobster Chair
The GamuT Lobster Chair (chair $4,995, optional matching footstool $2,590) is a billed as “the world’s first audiophile chair.” I will respectfully defer — “firsts” don’t really matter to me as much as [...]
Tweaks
For reviews and commentary related to the “extra stuff” not included elsewhere, including room treatments and audio racks, and yes, all the fun tweako bits, too.
Ifi iPower for the Raspberry streamer
If there is one major question that I get all the time is how to improve the Raspberry Pi streamer performance. The most obvious choice is to upgrade the power supply. What the RaspberryPi.org suggests is to go with a 2.0 Ampere 5V switching mode [...]
Raspberry Pi 3 officially launched!
Brand new Raspberry Pi 3 officially launched! [...]
Magic Bowls and Going Troll
By Roger Skoff You know what Internet Trolls are; they’re the kind of folks who lurk on Facebook or the audiophile forums, waiting for some poor innocent to post anything at all that’s in any way at variance with the strictest AES or “common [...]
In focus: WyWires Power Broker
Alex Sventitsky, CEO of WyWires, sent me a nifty little box a little while ago. Have I told you about it? Of course I have! The Power Broker took a bow back at CES/T.H.E. Show in Las Vegas, appearing in several rooms. The new power distribution [...]
Symposium Acoustics: Rollerblock Series 2+, Junior, Svelte Shelf, Precision Couplers and more
I blame Barry Diament for getting me started on this approach to isolation. I’m not exactly sure which of his posts on Computer Audiophile that caught my eye originally, as there were a lot of them (here’s a good, recent one); as I [...]
Mini Review: Deep Tone and the Silver Circle Tchaik 6
“Power, like sex or air, is only important when you’re not getting any.” I think this a pretty common feeling amongst cash-strapped audiophiles. The reasons are pretty (psychologically) obvious — if you don’t know, you [...]
edenSound TerraStone platforms
I have some Symposium gear in for evaluation and review, and while talking with Peter Bizlewicz, I started wondering about my carpet. It’s Berber, with a pad, over concrete. “Basement standard decor”. Because of this, I use [...]
eFicion F300 and Stillpoints: Gotta Have It?
I’ll admit that I’m a creature of the moment. That’s a nice way of saying I’m a little ADD. Whatever. What’s here, and in my face, takes precedence. And what’s in my face these days are the magical speakers from [...]
AudiAV Zirconia rack: a work still in progress
Well, the last of the shelves for my AudiAV Zirconia rack showed up today. Now all my stuff is nicely separated and protected from the evil of vibration, subsonics, EMF, RFI and the scourge of gremlin activity. Okay, that last one is still a bit [...]
