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LA Audio Show 2017: Wilson Audio comes out in force, preps Alexia 2

June 24, 2017

Wilson Audio Specialties showed impressive strength in numbers at the 2017 Los Angeles Audio Show. Indeed, it was hard to walk very far in the five floors of stereo exhibits at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel without tripping over the company’s [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: The gear to lend an ear to really hear

June 22, 2017

With the inaugural Vancouver Audio Festival hosted by HiFi Centre happening this weekend, I thought I’d get the word out on what Igor Kivritsky, and his good people were curating in the suites of listening rooms lined up for Saturday, and [...]

Black Sabbath announce The Ten Year War: Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set with MQA high-res

June 22, 2017

Black Sabbath fans rejoice. BMG is tooling up for a September release of eight Sabbath LPs on 180-gram coloured vinyl that all have been re-mastered by Andy Pearce from the original tapes. Oh, and did I mention the wearable USB Crucifix that will be [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Elite Audio Systems create space with Viola Audio Labs, Kharma and Linn

June 22, 2017

Elite Audio Systems out of San Francisco, California created a very unique, and Zen-like listening space at the Los Angeles Audio Show. They had put up a large semi-transparent photographic background which transported you upon entering the [...]

High End 2017: A High-Fidelity Photo Essay

June 17, 2017

The shock and awe of High End at Munich to someone who has not attended previously is palpable. This is the mother of all shows in my books, because to me it stands heads, and shoulders above so many others due to the inherent cultural, [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Austin Hifi spreads the joy with Crimson, Tocaro, Resolution Audio

June 16, 2017

Some rooms at audio shows are like old friends that you haven’t seen for a while. The Austin Hifi room at the Los Angeles Audio Show was like that. They have a habit of putting together similar systems (musical, simple, dynamic) at the shows [...]

High End 2017: TuneAudio, Trafomatic, Rockna, and Skogrand Cables stock the candy store

June 13, 2017

I felt like I was in candy store. Everything looked colourful, mouthwatering, and sugary… the sound was also drawing me into the sweet spot for an extended listening session. Another room of horn delights was having it’s way with me at [...]

Munich 2017: Nagra, Kronos, and Wilson make listeners see red

June 12, 2017

We’ve all heard the phrase, pictured it in our minds, or seen a commercial based on it. Like waving a red flag at a bull. That’s what the Nagra room in the 4.2 Atrium level of High End at Munich felt like when I walked into it. The [...]

Element Acoustics to host Limited-Seating Accuphase Demo Event in Vancouver June 24th

June 6, 2017

Edward Ku of Element Acoustics will be hosting a special, limited-seating Accuphase demonstration event at his Richmond showroom on June 24th. Ku was one of many sponsors of the Vancouver Audio Show in the last two years, and said he is sad to [...]

La Audio Show 2017: Acapella Cellini sings with Audio Note UK at Audio Federation

June 5, 2017

Sometimes you have to take time to listen to what’s not there. So when I sat down to take in the room that Neli, and Mike Davis of Audio Federation, now out of Palo Alta, California had put together, what wasn’t there made it one [...]