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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]