Op/Ed from the desk Scot Hull, publisher and founder of Part-Time Audiophile.
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 say, all I was […]
Philip O’Hanlon is the President/CEO of On a Higher Note, a high-end audio distributor, and this weekend, he came by to spend a day with the folks of Command Performance A/V of Falls Church, VA. […]
The Ortofon Cadenza Black is now on the table and breaking in. So far, the sound is worthy of a lacquered string of superlatives hung around the neck of an exclamation point. More on that […]
I’m not sure who to blame here or who started the whole campaign against MSRP, but I put Amazon somewhere near the top of the heap. Used to be that the price was the price, […]
Here Be Dragons Last Christmas day, there was an interesting thread on Computer Audiophile that set me back a bit. In that thread, on LessLoss’ new Blackbody products, which I was thoroughly dissing, I brought […]
Well, folks, the decision is made. I’m heading out on Monday to get a new MacBook Pro to use as a dedicated music server. It’ll be a 13″ model, which should get me all the […]
Saw this article today: The Atlantic, “Old School Hi-Fi in Search of the New New Thing.” The author, Hal Espen, apparently went to the RMAF show this year and got an earful from the seminars […]
There are a lot of industry folks current wringing hands and gnashing teeth over the state of the audio marketplace. The only new customers are old. Apple’s iPod & iTunes are killing the hifi. Kids […]
If I were Croesus, I would certainly still have problems. But one of the problems I wouldn’t have is prioritizing upgrades. This annoying/handy little exercise has led me to believe that the first analog upgrade […]
As I might have mentioned, I have a not-quite decrepit 2003 Apple Power Mac G5. It’s a big, aluminum beast. I’ve got the OS running off a small 30GB SSD drive and everything of interest […]
When I was a kid, my big brother used to sell me his LPs. Not so much that I could have them and keep them — he’d do that, of course, as he had the […]
My reference DAC is an Alpha from Berkeley Audio Designs. This is a great DAC, but I have a problem: my “transport” is a computer, not a CD player. So, I need some way to […]
I’ve been using a full Blue Jeans Cable “loom” now for the last seven months. During that time, I have not once wanted for a “better cable” — in fact, I went and bought more […]
One of the talks I wished I hadn’t gone to at RMAF this year was the discussion hosted by Steven Stone. The title of the talk was “Are We There Yet: Past, Present, & Future […]
So, I needed some temporary cables until I made some decisions about a new cable loom to better fit my rig and in the middle of all that, I decided I needed to rethink my […]
There are a bunch of USB cables out there, and a whole lot of opinions about those cables — whether they’re “worth it”, whether you can actually discriminate between any two cables, and so on […]
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