Toronto Audiofest 2022 For a long time, my day-to-day work in music production was all I needed to escape the constant turmoil of current events worldwide. Lately, those events are more than just concerning, they’re […]
The Audio Research LS28SE line stage preamplifier arrived at a time when I was playing with lightning in a bottle, a small project line stage utilizing a simple point to point OTL circuit and hot-rodded […]
Big Kids Toys I recently attended an audiophile event at one of my favorite local hi-fi haunts, Big Kids Toys AV, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Shop owner Mike Toomey was one of the first folks […]
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (PTA) — Big news in the world of hi-fi. Just recently we announced the launch of Audio Research’s new book celebrating their 50th Anniversary (linked here) and before that Marc Phillips’ review of […]
Just a couple of weeks after finishing the review on the extraordinary Audio Research CD6SE compact disc player/DAC (review to appear in late June), I received this press release from ARC on the new LS28SE […]
Scot Hull summoned me to the Nola Speakers and VAC room at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest to discuss a review of a pair of loudspeakers. When I walked into the room I couldn’t […]
Some of the set ups at AXPONA are altars to the Gods of high fidelity that seem to expect that you will kneel, or perhaps prostrate yourself at their feet as you grovel something like […]
Nola‘s Metro Grand Reference Gold loudspeakers ($33,000) were sounding possibly the best I’ve yet heard from a Nola system, backed by a full complement of Audio Research gear: the Reference 75 amplifier ($9,000), Reference 10 […]
There’s this stretch of rooms that got some great photos on Day 1, but I didn’t have any time to do even a little follow up. At 174 rooms, there were definitely some gaps. Yikes. […]
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