CAF12: Wild Cards, Grab Bags, and The Everything Else
I love audio shows! It’s like getting to spend an entire weekend at every audio dealership in your corner of the country — all at once. Everyone is (usually) [...]
CAF 2012
CAF12: Command Performance A/V presents DeVore Fidelity, Leben HiFi, LM Audio, Berkeley Audio
Is it just me, or is there this tension between “great sounding gear” and “gear that’s just awesome”? For example, I love what TIDAL Audio is [...]
CAF12: Volti Audio, Mojo Audio, Deja Vu Audio
The second Volti room featured a brand new loudspeaker from Greg Roberts, the Veretta. This is a pretty one. A bit of a departure for Volti, the Veretta is a [...]
CAF2012: Command Performance A/V presents Joseph Audio, Bel Canto, VPI, Audience
There’s nothing like a Joseph Audio demo to make me feel like Clarence Thomas. I mean, I know I ought to recuse myself, but I just won’t do it. Fact is, I’m [...]
CAF12: Daedalus, Purity Audio, Bob Carver
First, a confession. My wife is a reality TV aficionado. She loves her some reality TV. She was all over Survivor when it first aired — and every season thereafter. She [...]
CAF12: Woo Audio, Davone, Black Cat and M-A Recordings
I think it’s pretty much taken as read that there are lots of different kinds of people that get sucked into audio’s high-end. One of the more curious, but still [...]
CAF12: The Voice That Is presents TIDAL Audio, Audio Power Labs, Purity Audio, dCS, Aurender, PAD
If I stop with “The world is full of things”, I can make out like I’m some kind of philosopher. Maybe a Vienna Circle dude, overthrowing the [...]
CAF12: Volti Audio, Border Patrol, Verdier, Durand, Sound Smith
This past Spring, I found myself tramping all over Manhattan with Jeff Joseph. We were in search of something more interesting than an over priced buffet at the Waldorf [...]
CAF12: Legacy Audio, Sherbourn
“You need big speakers to make big sound.” I’m sure someone said that once, somewhere, but I’m not going to bother looking it up. I said it, and that [...]
CAF12: The Voice That Is presents TIDAL, dCS, Aurender, Argento
I am not an envious man, by nature. I’m pretty sanguine about my ability to play in audio’s high-end and what funds I’ve been able to wield to the [...]