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Acoustic Sounds Behind The Scenes | Documentary

July 25, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 1

What’s better than spending thirty-minutes of your Monday afternoon to watch an outstanding new documentary from Chad Kassem that takes us deep behind the curtain of Acoustic Sounds (website). In this mini-documentary we get a […]

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Running Up That Hill | HUBCON 2022

July 10, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 0

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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The Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3 Special Sauce | HUBCON 2022

July 10, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 3

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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Vinyl Night at Wise Man Brewing | HUBCON 2022

July 10, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 0

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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Graig Neville and Jameson Mourafetis visit EMBER Audio + Design | HUBCON 2022

July 10, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 0

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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Dave School and The Scully Record Lathe | HUBCON 2022

July 10, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 1

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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Jameson Mourafetis featuring Abyss, RAAL, Audeze | HUBCON 2022

July 9, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 0

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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Another Late Night with Grover Neville and Ovation Sound Studios | HUBCON 2022

July 9, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 1

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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The Audio Company, VAC, Von Schweikert, Masterbuilt | HUBCON 2022

July 9, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 3

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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McKenzie Van Oss, Stereo to Heaven, and Dave McNair | HUBCON 2022

July 9, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 0

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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Vinnie Rossi Brama at EMBER Audio + Design | HUBCON 2022

July 9, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 1

Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]

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Tom Sachs “Space Program: Rare Earths” | Audiophile Journal

January 10, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 1

Tom Sachs’ SPACE PROGRAM : RARE EARTHS The Deichtorhallen Hamburg is pleased to host Tom Sachs (website) and his team of sculptor-astronauts as they prepare to advance space exploration on their next interstellar mission, SPACE […]

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Fern & Roby Raven III Loudspeakers | First Listen

October 31, 2021 Eric Franklin Shook 5

Dave McNair and myself were itching to get back out on the road. The absence of audio shows had us growing restless with work-from-home life, and the impending end-of-days for longstanding events like Rocky Mountain […]

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Tom Sachs “Space Program: Rare Earths” opens at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

July 1, 2021 Eric Franklin Shook 1

Tom Sachs‘ marvel of visual and auditory senses—an art installation—Space Program: Rare Earths opens at Deichtorhallen Hamburg on September 19th, 2021 and will be on view until April 10th, 2022. Deichtorstraße 1 20095 Hamburg, Germany […]

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Part-Time Audiophile now featuring Contributor Columns

October 5, 2020 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on Part-Time Audiophile now featuring Contributor Columns

PTA HEADQUARTERS—We are proud to announce, the greatest addition to our Part-Time Audiophile website toolbar in over a decade—we bring to you, COLUMNS. It has been discussed amongst our staff of writers, and decided that […]

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What the hell is Resistor Magazine?

August 20, 2020 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on What the hell is Resistor Magazine?

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Not a single audio show goes by where someone doesn’t ask me… “What’s Rafe Arnott up to these days?” It’s been since the spring of 2018 when Rafe Arnott departed […]

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Fern & Roby Factory Tour (Photojournal)

May 12, 2020 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on Fern & Roby Factory Tour (Photojournal)

RICHMOND, VA (PTA) — Throughout the year of 2019, a few of us at Part-Time Audiophile have spent what we see as a warranted amount of time in adoration of everything Fern & Roby. From […]

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Chord Electronics, Yes We’re Open!

April 3, 2020 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on Chord Electronics, Yes We’re Open!

Reporting by Eric Franklin Shook KENT, UK (PTA) — Chord Electronics is definitely open for business! If by chance you were sadly mislead, bamboozled, or hoodwinked by a poorly contrived April Fools Day prank, I […]

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ModWright Instruments Unveils HAL 9000 Supercomputer

April 1, 2020 Eric Franklin Shook 3

AMBOY, WA (PTA) — We received a press release this afternoon from who (or what) we believe to be Dan Wright of ModWright Instruments announcing the company’s newest model HAL 9000 Supercomputer. Reporting by Eric […]

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Bose Sunglasses, BurgerFi Wagyu Beef, and Airport Besties

December 20, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 1

RALEIGH, NC (PTA) — This is a tale that takes place in the daily life of Part-Time Audiophile. A tale which differs little from the usual show reporting in the sense that I being the […]

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