Friday AXPONA Highlights | AXPONA 2024
I was a little nervous about attending AXPONA 2024–last year’s high-end audio show in Chicago was a huge, successful show, but the PTA team had a difficult time in covering all of it. As the […]
I was a little nervous about attending AXPONA 2024–last year’s high-end audio show in Chicago was a huge, successful show, but the PTA team had a difficult time in covering all of it. As the […]
The 2024 High-End Audio Show season didn’t have an auspicious beginning, at least for me. I suffered a tailbone injury just a few days before the show, so I was a little out of sorts […]
Spring of 2023 was a busy time for PTA, with the team having hit up several shows in a row. The end of February brought a welcome trip to Tampa for FLAX 2023, and mid-April […]
For Graig Neville’s CAF Day One Coverage, click here. And now for CAF Day Two: On CAF Day Two, I found that Fidelity Imports commandeered a large chunk of the sixth floor making it easy […]
Here’s lookin’ at you, kid. Casablanca is a classic that stands up to today’s films, and having the wonderful ampsandsound Casablanca monoblock tube amplifiers in my listening room certainly invoked thoughts of nostalgia. Much like […]
On the first day of the second year of the Pacific Audio Fest in Seattle, this vibe was decidedly mellow–not in a bad way, but as a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of […]
I’ve owned the ProAc D30RS for just about three years now. The speaker was pretty much brand new when I bought it, completely unheard and sight unseen. That doesn’t exactly tell the whole story, though. […]
Man oh man, I knew it was going to be tough to pick out the Top Rooms at AXPONA 2023. It reminds me of one of those cooking competition shows on the Food Network where […]
Can the reigning Chocolate Chip Trip champion, the Acora VRC-1 loudspeakers, defend the title it won at the 2023 Florida Audio Expo in February? Yeah, I know the Acora Acoustics room at FLAX also was […]
I admit that posting my Top Five rooms at the 2023 Florida Audio Expo on Brian Hunter’s AudioHead site might have been premature. Now everyone already knows my Top Five, and I don’t want to […]
The 2023 Florida Audio Expo was the destination where I, your humble narrator, got to finally hear some of the brands and products that have had the other PTA writers swooning over the last year. […]
The biggest surprise at the 2023 Florida Audio Expo shouldn’t have been a surprise at all. But the debut of the new flagship Acora Acoustics VRC-1 loudspeakers seemed to tower above all else at FLAX, […]
Oh no he didn’t. “Ratchets” by Hedegaard. With 121dB peaks. At an audio show. During listening hours. Folks, this just is not done. People were fleeing the area. Plaster was literally falling from the ceiling. And, […]
As we mentioned last week, just near the end of our coverage of the 2023 Capital Audiofest, we received an amazing treasure chest of images from our own Grover Neville. I tried to implement as […]
Like my recent attendance at the Toronto audio show, I didn’t go to the 2022 Capitol Audiofest on an official show report mission for Part-Time Audiophile. I went to have some fun and laughs with […]
Big news at Acora Acoustics! You know Acora Acoustics—the granite speaker company that’s been making serious waves in the hi-fi scene since its launch in 2019. Well, the team at Acora Acoustics just gained another […]
At AXPONA 2022, I felt that the Acora Acoustics SRC-2 loudspeakers–winner of a rare PTA Summit Award–was hampered by one of those big, problematic downstairs ballrooms where all the huge systems are usually located. I […]
Editor’s Note: Before we dive into Hubcon 2022 coverage, let’s take care of the elephant in the room—what the hell is Hubcon? Hubcon is a gathering of Part-Time Audiophile writers and editors. During our planning […]
Regular readers will know by now that Dave McNair, myself and the rest of the PTA Team have an enormous amount of respect and appreciation for Acora Acoustics and founder Valerio Cora, who is perhaps […]
Welcome to the Best Hi-Fi Accessories section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]
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