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Legacy Audio makes some really big speakers and the Whisper XD is the biggest of them all. Prices range between $20-23k based on finish and options. The Focus SE (on the right, below) comes in […]
JIB-Germany, a cable company, was showing some tasty bits to showcase their cables. Mistral DT-307S loudspeakers with a Napa Acoustics NA-208A integrated amplifier, and tunes from a Mistral DT-307CD player. $1,000 buys all three and […]
I’ve heard the $10k Aerial 7t loudspeakers at a local dealer, so I kinda knew what I was getting in for here in Audible Illusions’ second room (the other was that crazy Martin Logan demo). […]
The Linkwitz Orion 4 loudspeakers, assembled by the team over at Wood Artistry, is a tour-de-force. In this setup, there are three giant amps from Pass Labs. An $8250 Class-A/B X250.5 drove the woofers and […]
$260k will buy you a lot of things. A house, perhaps. In some places, it’ll buy you a house — and a boat and a pair of cars. What it’ll buy at mbl America is […]
If you attended AXPONA this year, you may be party to a conspiracy to commit audio murder. Didn’t even notice the beautiful King Sound ESL speakers, with their hefty Reference Power Modules, sitting in the […]
I like Tyler Acoustics. Ty has been selling speakers since 1998 and will be the nicest guy you meet at any show. He’s totally down to earth, just loves what he does, and what he […]
M Audio, aka, Maker Audio, was showing off their $25k Model 10 speaker. Interestingly, prices are much higher on their website, so for whatever it’s worth, I’m going with what I had in my show […]
Scaena is Latin for “line source speakers with monster subwoofers”. Okay, I made that up. But that’s what I think of whenever I see Scaena hit the showroom floor. At AXPONA, the $110k Spiritus 3.4 […]
The Martin Logan demo at AXPONA was new for me on several fronts. I’d never heard Martin Logan’s CLX panels before. I’d never heard 7 subwoofers in a single system before. I’ve never stumbled out […]
I guess I’m a 2-channel guy. This didn’t happen on purpose or by any sort of plan, but there you go. When I think of “audiophile”, I think of 2-channel stereo. When I think of […]
I felt a little like Adam, cast out of the Garden for his trespasses, but that’s pretty much what happened to me in the Beauty of Sound room. I respectfully asked for permission to take […]
At RMAF, one of my lingering disappointments was that I completely missed the one day that KEF was showing off the new Blade loudspeakers. One lousy day, and then they were gone. And I missed […]
High End Palace was the first thing I heard when I hit the show floor at AXPONA this year. The doors were thrown open and the melodious music pouring into the lobby pooled around the […]
Peter Lederman is the Soundsmith, and it’s to the Soundsmith that cartridges go when they die. As near as I can figure it, Soundsmith is known for one thing. Well, no, let me back up. […]
Some rooms just look like more fun than others. Sometimes it’s the crowd. Sometimes its the gear. And sometimes its the guy doing the demo. Every time I walked by the Audio Physic room at […]
You had to be there to really understand what the YG folks accomplished at AXPONA. I’m still a little dumbfounded, actually. The pictures you’re seeing are of a pair of $120k YG Anat III Signature […]
It was a while back that I first ran into the Realizer, from Smyth Research. I’d wandered in to my not terribly local dealer, Command Performance A/V in Falls Church VA, when a gentleman had […]
I don’t think it’s a surprise that I think the Joseph Audio Pulsars are among the very, very best speakers, at any price. They do things that are just remarkable. And this year at AXPONA, […]
Biggest surprise at AXPONA? Soundfield Audio! Being the total tool that I am, I completely missed their debut at the Capital Audiofest last summer. Since then, I’ve been lambasted, ridiculed, mocked and pitied by all […]
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