Newport 2012 was a really big show — the biggest of the regional shows I’ve yet been to. Something like 50 rooms and 10,000 tickets sold, with Dean Peer, Tierney Sutton, Anne Bisson, and Mike […]
Things that go together: Peanut butter and jelly. Bread and butter. Beans and toast. Natural matches! Okay, well, everything except that last one — the English are just weird. Things that don’t match: Solid state […]
Magico is an oddball brand. On the one hand, they’re renowned for putting out extremely high-tech product. On the other hand, they’re also known for pricing those products in a way that can be generously […]
MSB showed here at Newport with YG, pairing up their electronics to the much-appreciate (by me) $75,000 Anat III Studio. MSB is known for their distinctive look and their extraordinary electronics. Personally, only one of […]
Whoa. That’s kinda how I feel whenever I run across speakers from Rockport Technologies. I dunno why. I think the first model I ever heard of was the Arrakis, and that speaker may have scarred […]
I have two sets of the Magnepan speakers going at my home, so I guess you could say I’m a fan of the open baffle design. The approach is supposed to eliminate the colorations that […]
Are you a “Lowther guy”? And by that, I mean, are you a single-driver, micro-watt SET amp, all analog, kind of guy. If so, well, I bet you hit the Teresonic room at Newport. Mike […]
Psst! Hey! Hey you! Wanna see something totally sick? Well, here it is, you rubbernecker! Check out the Audio Artistry CBT36 — this $6,500 speaker has more drivers than all of Mitt Romney’s millionaire NASCAR […]
What do I know? Not much, apparently. For example, I’ve never heard of Chapman speakers. Which is my oversight, obviously, since they’ve been building speakers since 1965! This is exactly why I love audio shows. […]
One of the joys of the Internets is that all the things you have ever said, anywhere, about anything, are all right there to haunt you. Forever. All my once-favorite, now forgotten, punching bags can […]
This was a really interesting room, but I haven’t a lot to say about it. It was, well, very pretty and all that, and sure, finding gear this bespoke tucked into a corner at an […]
Wyred 4 Sound has branched out significantly in the last year, and now offers a handful of nifty new products — most relevantly for Newport is the Music Server. Pricing starts at $2k for 1TB […]
It’s easy to write a room report when that room was put together and demoed by Philip O’Hanlon of distributor On A Higher Note. The man himself is dapper, charming, gracious, and perhaps most importantly, […]
It’s not like I’m all old and jaded, but, well, it’s not common that a room at an audio show surprises me, but the Blackbird Audio suite at Newport did just that. I heard about […]
It was the best of rooms. It was the worst of rooms. Okay, no, the room was fine, but this is the room were I lost my beloved Chris Jones CD — and all the […]
I first ran across Estelon at RMAF last year, and I remember being instantly smitten. And not just by the sound. With three Accuton drivers, the $64,000 X Diamond is lightning fast, with detail retrieval […]
Soooo. IsoMike. Yeah. I have no idea what I was expecting here. But whatever it was, wetting my pants wasn’t one of those things. Yeah … Thanks. If you don’t know, and there’s really no […]
You never know what you’re going to find at an audio show, who you’re going to run into — or who is going to run over you. This year, for me, it was Sony’s Jon […]
$275,000 will buy a lot of things. A house in Florida. An Ivy-League college education — for two. A new Bentley to tool around in during the week — and a new Aston Martin for […]
I’ve seen and heard a half-dozen Emerald Physics demos. The premise is interesting — optimized speaker designs coupled with DSP-controlled external crossovers, and all wrapped up with a custom room correction solution equals some superlative, […]
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