–by Brian Hunter Anyone who has spent time with the headphone community has undoubtedly crossed paths with Woo Audio at some point. Jack Wu has been producing quality amplifier pieces on both the loudspeaker and […]
One of the most delightful things about signing up for a CES press badge is all the delightful email that will inundate that account. Ahh, the bliss. Over the last month, I have received 514,238 […]
Another perfectly good year, down the tubes. 2012 saw 300+ new updates, articles, reviews and show reports posted to Part-Time Audiophile. Not to toot my horn or anything, but that’s a lot of words. My […]
Sometimes, you just have to do it. Whatever “it” is. So long as no one and nothing gets hurt, a little fiscal indiscretion is a forgivable thing. This is what I tell myself when I […]
A wise man once said that the race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the […]
I’m not sure how this happened, but Doug White at The Voice That Is, lost his bloody mind and sent me a Vitus Audio SIA-025 integrated amp. He’s between things at the moment, didn’t need […]
I reached out to Nelson Pass of First Watt this summer and asked the “what’s what with First Watt”. By way of response, Nelson agreed to send me a pair of amps — starting with […]
I think it’s time the Lotto Fairy came calling. Just sayin’. Come on, Powerball! Woo hoo! Ahem. If I’m being honest, what I want is the Ayre AX-7e. This $3,700+ amp is a high-current design, […]
Any Conrad-Johnson fans out there? Well, if so, this might be right up your alley. In his April 2012 column “Sam’s Space”, Stereophile’s Sam Tellig recently wrote about the fascination that Bill Conrad and Lou […]
I’m not convinced that you can have too much love, sex, money, or power. Especially amplifier power. Even if you don’t need it, exactly, it’s nice to have. But much of the time, it’s a […]
I get a lot of crap for writing out here on the ol’ Internets. A lot of you consider me to be, variously, and in no particular order, one (or some combo) of the following: […]
This is not a review. Think of it more as audio porn. This hunk of audio love is brought to you by the kind folks at Gini Systems. I have it in for a try […]
This is a fairly well-covered piece of audio gear, so I’m challenged with how to proceed without simply repeating what others have already, and far more capably, written. Srajan Ebaen, over at 6moons, did his […]
Aaudio/CruzeFirst had a mega system on display: Lansche No. 5.1 loudspeakers ($45,000/pair), BMC AMP M1 monoblock power amplifiers ($15,580/pair), BMC BDCD1 belt-drive CD player/transport ($5790), BMC DAC1 PRE D/A converter/preamp ($5790), and BMC MCCI MC […]
I was just trying to think of a way to describe what it is that’s happened to the sound of the big Plinius SA-Reference when I swapped in the new Furutech fuses. And then, Positive […]
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