CES 2015: A long overdue wrap up
Before, after and during. That’s when I heave out the long sigh. An audio show — any audio show — wrings that out of me. But this year, CES was … [...]
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CES 2015: Dazzled by ENIGMAcoustics, NuPrime and Celsus
There was a lot going on in the ENIGMAcoustics room at CES this year, from the marvelous Mythology M1 loudspeakers to the delightfully clever devices from Celsus Sound and [...]
CES 2015: Beyond Pono, Ayre still hot
I suppose that some of you, reading this, do in fact live under a rock or are otherwise sheltered from the world, and in so doing, have completely missed the hullabaloo [...]
CES 2015: GoldenEar and the case for effortless, affordable power
Sandy Gross is a fine gentleman, and one of the few “old-school” manufacturers that is still out there innovating after 40 years. He was one of the Founding [...]
CES 2015, The Personal Audio Perspective: Audeze EL-8
by Warren Chi Eight months ago, in the dead of night, my partner at Audio360 (and brother in life) Michael Mercer drove me to an undisclosed location. It was there that we [...]
CES 2015: Aurender rocks hard on the digital audio toys
Computer audio is hard. This is a gong I’ve beaten on before, so it really shouldn’t be surprising that I’m still hitting it. Hard, you say? What’s so [...]
CES 2015: Sony’s High Resolution Walkman is totally lux
I have a soft spot for the old Walkman brand. I carried one of the originals pretty much everywhere when I was a kid, and echoes of those painful, turbulent and largely [...]
CES 2015: Acoustic Zen and Triode Corp crack space, let in the monsters
I am entirely suspicious of Twin Audio‘s Santy Oropel and Acoustic Zen‘s Robert Lee. Neither gentleman is exactly sporting Incredible Hulk physiques, yet someone [...]
CES 2015: DeVore Fidelity, a new Gibbon, and a ride with The Driver
It was 9 p.m. Time to go and The Driver was ready. A quick shuffling. Half of us were pointed one way, the others went to the other car. DeVore had been rather deliberately [...]
CES 2015: Pass Labs and a suite full of new gear
Pass Laboratories doesn’t really “do” audio shows. Sure, you can find their amps at AXPONA, T.H.E. Show, RMAF and others. In fact, it’s damn near [...]
