AXPONA 2015: An Outsider Looks In
by Josh Emmons My tastes in music are discouragingly popular. I crave ABA structures, uplifting hooks, and transportive bridges. I am inspired by key changes. My first [...]
AXPONA 2015
AXPONA 2015: Grant Fidelity and PureAudioProject
It’s not often that seeing a vendor at an audio show warms my heart, but seeing that Grant Fidelity is still kicking makes me incredibly happy. Watching Rachel Grant [...]
AXPONA 2015: Gingko, Wells, LampizatOr, Dana Cable
I’ve been hanging out in Gingko Audio rooms at shows since about 2006, and I’ve heard at least umpteen-dozen of their show setups since then. I almost always dig [...]
AXPONA 2015: Classic Audio, Atma-Sphere, Purist Audio Design
Scot Hull likes to accuse me of being too negative. I keep trying to tell him that I’m not negative, it’s just that people keep shoving half-empty glasses at me. [...]
AXPONA 2015: Brokenpress Design+Fabrication
Not everything at an audio show has to sound good. That makes sense. If we were honest with each other, we’d admit that this “it’s all about the [...]
AXPONA 2015: Gibson Les Paul Reference Monitors
by Josh Emmons Here’s the thing, Gibson and I got off on the wrong foot. I have many more fingers in the guitar world than the audio enthusiast one. And there is, [...]
AXPONA 2015: Audio Note UK
I’ve started to worry that I’m becoming one of those guys who plays favorites with a brand. It’s not about the ad money, because Audio Note sure as heck [...]
AXPONA 2015: Fidelis Home Audio, Vinnie Rossi and Harbeth
Let’s just say that New Hampshire’s Fidelis Home Audio shared a room with the legend, Vinnie Rossi. I wanted to start out with that third-grade book report [...]
AXPONA 2015: Essential Audio with AudioKinesis, Atma-Sphere, Exogal, Aurender, Kuzma
by Josh Emmons I’m sitting in the Essential Audio room, notepad open, pen in hand. Eyes unfocused, listening intently. But writing nothing. And I should be writing [...]
AXPONA 2015: ModWright, Daedalus, WyWires
ModWright, Daedalus, and WyWires have become something close to the Three Stooges over the last few years. They keep hanging out with each other, they keep showing minor [...]
