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Capital Audiofest 2017: Classic Audio Loudspeakers dances with coils

December 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Story I ran to this room when I was told Classic Audio Loudspeakers would be demoing with the Atma-Sphere Novacron monoblock amplifiers. Originally introduced in 1991, [...]

AXPONA 2017: Classic Audio Loudspeakers mix power and poise

June 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

I was approaching an open door on the lower level of the Westin O’Hare when I heard an unmistakable rhythm track kick in. From outside, the crack of the snare and the [...]

RMAF 2016: Classic Audio takes Purist approach to tubes and (UHA) analog tape

December 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s a must-stop event. Assuming you can find it. But I bet you can. Just creep along the hallway, long after the show hours have closed for the day, until you hear [...]

AXPONA 2016: Essential Audio goes AudioKinesis, with Resonessence Labs

May 21, 2016 // 1 Comment

I’m a fan of Duke LeJeune and his AudioKinesis brand. Brought to AXPONA by Brian Walsh’s Chicago-area based dealership, Essential Audio, I got to see Duke’s [...]

AXPONA 2016: Classic Audio Loudspeakers stays on the path

April 30, 2016 // 5 Comments

One of the most enjoyable things about covering the high-end industry is meeting the fascinating people who somewhere along the way got the crazy notion this actually could [...]

RMAF 2015: Classic Audio Loudspeakers goes back to the future

November 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Going room to room at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest is always an exhilarating experience, but also one that, by day three, can almost be too much of a good thing. Speakers [...]

CAF 2015: Best In Show

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

This was a surprise. The entire show. A surprise. And given that it seemed like it might not happen at all for a few months, the overall success was a stunner. Sound quality? [...]

CAF 2015: Classic Audio Loudspeakers blows my hair way back

September 12, 2015 // 3 Comments

I have a thing for horns. Especially vintage-ish horns. They’re kind of hard to find these days, though you see a few here and there. Like Classic Audio Loudspeakers. [...]

High End 2015: Wrapping the Un-Wrappable

June 28, 2015 // 2 Comments

An entire month passed since we got back from Munich and our combined efforts produced more than 50 extended show reports, many of which are closer to mini-reviews than a [...]

AXPONA 2015: Classic Audio, Atma-Sphere, Purist Audio Design

May 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Scot Hull likes to accuse me of being too negative. I keep trying to tell him that I’m not negative, it’s just that people keep shoving half-empty glasses at me. [...]