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Genesis Super Subwoofer and Turntable Dance with Merrill Audio Element 118 Monos

May 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

Gary Koh of Genesis Advanced Technologies and Merrill Wettasinghe of Merrill Audio hosted the Pacific Northwest Audio Society (PNWAS) in early March. They were expecting 10 [...]

CEDIA 2018: McIntosh debuts new line of custom install products

September 8, 2018 // 2 Comments

McIntosh, home of those beautiful VU meters that we can’t get enough of, brought gifts for custom integrators at CEDIA 2018 with a new line of multi-channel amplifiers [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: Devialet energizes with Bowers & Wilkins

April 28, 2018 // 1 Comment

Some think they’re beautiful, others feel they emulate what artificial intelligence will look like in the far future. I’m in the former camp, and have always [...]

The Path of Shindo – A Journey through Japanese high fidelity

April 14, 2018 // 9 Comments

This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional this February in our Winter 2018 edition. We’ll be rolling out [...]

AXPONA 2018 Advance: New venue, more gear, live music

April 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

There are a lot of ways to judge the significance and success of a hi-fi show — including the size of the venue, total attendance and number of exhibitors. By any of [...]

Review: Pass Labs X600.8 mono block Power Amplifier

April 7, 2018 // 10 Comments

Do you want the hernia or the double hernia? The voice on the phone asking that question was Bryan Stanton, a communications specialist who works with Pass Labs. A few weeks [...]

The List: Five of the Best Power Amps in The World

March 11, 2018 // 13 Comments

Welcome to something new we’re going to try here on PTA thanks to our friend Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I’m going to be curating a new list [...]

An interview with hifi legend Nelson Pass

February 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

Part-Time Audiophile talks to Nelson Pass Nelson Pass formed his first audio company with a friend while studying physics at the University of California-Davis in the early [...]

What’s your pick for top product of 2017? Tell us by Dec. 16 and qualify to win an AudioQuest DragonFly Red

December 12, 2017 // 41 Comments

The crew members here at Part-Time Audiophile are busy making their lists and checking them twice. Rather than picking out toys, sweaters and bad ties, however, we’ve been [...]

How to build Listening Room Synergy: Curating a system that sings

November 25, 2017 // 6 Comments

System synergy — components mating so well that the result exceeds the sum of their parts — is one of the most elusive goals in audio. You know it when you hear [...]