RMAF 2016: A portait (tour)
Lee Scoggins offered up his photo portrait tour from RMAF this year. These are the people that made this show great. Well, at least some of them. [...]
RMAF 2016
RMAF 2016: A love song
RMAF was my first true love. I kid, sorta, but if it wasn’t for my first RMAF back in 2010, I probably wouldn’t have done this site. I remember kinda sneaking off all those years ago. I didn’t really know anyone. No one knew me. I [...]
RMAF 2016: Lee at the End of Line and Best in Show
I approached this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest with a strange mix of excitement and trepidation. The long-time venue of the Denver Tech Center Marriott was in the midst of significant construction which literally shut off half the hotel [...]
RMAF 2016 Wrap: Mission Accomplished/Best of Show
Escaping on the last jet out of Denver after the close of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016, I felt a little like the nervous spy-support staff member Faisil in the 1994 movie “True Lies.” Reporting on his recent deployment activities to a [...]
RMAF 2016 Greatest Hits: You can’t always get what you want
Everybody seemed to want something: More rooms, more space, bigger rooms, less tents, an area for social gatherings, a proper restaurant and bar… the list goes on, but despite the zen disruption at RMAF 2016 due to ongoing [...]
RMAF 2016: Classic Audio takes Purist approach to tubes and (UHA) analog tape
It’s a must-stop event. Assuming you can find it. But I bet you can. Just creep along the hallway, long after the show hours have closed for the day, until you hear extraordinarily clear and really loud tunes. That’s where Greg Beron of [...]
RMAF 2016: AURALiC sighting by stars, Polaris and Altair
AURALiC has a reputation for over-performing and under-charging customers (a trend I’d like to see a lot more of), and RMAF saw no major deviation from that line of thinking. You could say that they’ve charted a course and have been [...]
RMAF 2016: Vandersteen Doubles Down on Bass
Audio-show exhibitors love keeping the lights low. It creates a moody, exotic atmosphere. But for aging scribes like myself, it also presents challenges. The way I do not want to make an entrance is by tripping over a chair and getting the outline [...]
RMAF 2016: Fern & Roby, Voxative Ooze Craftsmanship
I first took closer notice of Fern & Roby earlier this year after seeing a segment on the company during one of my frequent “How It’s Made” marathons on the Discovery Channel. While the series usually spotlights manufacturers that make [...]
RMAF 2016: Intervention Records and Vandersteen 7s
For a record collector like me, lacquers of classic albums are a bit of a holy grail. Lacquers are the fragile pressings that are later used to make stampers which produce the final LP. Typically collectors pay hundred of dollars for these [...]
