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RMAF 2018: The Audio Alternative, Audioquest, Vandersteen, AMG, Lyra and VTL

November 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

I was enthusiastic about checking out the Audioquest room at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Just a few months ago I met Audioquest’s Bill Low when he strolled into one [...]

RMAF 2018: Audio Research, Sonus Faber, and UHQR

October 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

Fast on the heels of a successful AXPONA show which saw Audio Research introduce the Ref 160 monoblock amplifiers with Wilson Alexia 2 speakers, the team showed up again with [...]

AXPONA 2018: Quintessence and Musical Surroundings, a devotion to sound

June 10, 2018 // 2 Comments

A world within the show, a Quintessence Audio LTD exhibit only requires a few steps physically (none socially) to transport you to a wonderland of high-end audio toys. For [...]

AXPONA 2018: Vandersteen and AudioQuest clean-up nicely

June 5, 2018 // 2 Comments

System synergy is everything, why change the recipe if you find something tasty? We’ve seen a magic mix when you bring together Vandersteen + Audio Research + [...]

AXPONA 2018: Quintessence Audio Rocks the House

May 29, 2018 // 11 Comments

I’ve been a fan of Audio Research for a while. It started back around 1990 with a trip to Lyric Hifi in New York City where I was lucky enough to find the legendary [...]

AXPONA 2017: Music From Another Room, Part 3

June 11, 2017 // 2 Comments

A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook You can’t just say “It’s awesome, buy it.” Eliciting a gut reaction of confidence in consumers who speak your name in [...]

AXPONA 2017: Quintessence, Musical Surroundings rise to new heights

April 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

It’s become a tradition at AXPONA for Quintessence Audio and Musical Surroundings to reserve a sizable block of large rooms together on the 12th floor of the Westin [...]

CES 2017: 12 hour Tour – Technics, DEG, Mytek, Sony, ELAC, Nagra, MSB, SweetVinyl, dCS, AudioQuest, Musical Surroundings

January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

This year, I decided to do the accelerated CES 2017 tour. With some loss of good judgement, I created a flight plan in and out of Vegas from Seattle in a single day with [...]

Best of 2016 and Product of the Year

December 24, 2016 // 13 Comments

So here we are again. Somehow, the year has turned, we’re all facing yet another New Year, and yet no one is running through the streets screaming about “the end [...]

RMAF 2016: Vandersteen Doubles Down on Bass

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 [...]