Munich High End 2018: The show that all shows want to be?
MUNICH. Have you seen the 2005 Academy Award® historical thriller by Steven Spielberg? If you haven’t let me just say it’s intense. I bring it up because if you [...]
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Review: Merrill Audio Cara preamplifier
When was the last time your heart was sent racing by the opportunity to audition a preamplifier? Yup, line stages are not the most exciting components. They just sit there, [...]
RMAF 2017: Daedalus, ModWright, WyWires are smooth operators
When does a box look like a subwoofer and woof like a subwoofer, but not really be a subwoofer? When it’s attached to Daedalus Audio’s new Zeus loudspeaker. The [...]
RMAF 2017: Fern & Roby, Linear Tube Audio, and Black Cat Cable
Some rooms at hifi-audio shows are infused with synergy. Every component in the set-up works flawlessly with every other component in the signal path. Some call this a [...]
RMAF 2017: Xact Audio, CH Precison, Zu Audio, and Frank Schröder
This was not exactly your father’s stereo system… no wood veneer here, but that’s what drew me into the room: the look of all that gleaming CH Precision [...]
RMAF 2017: Rafe’s Preview
“It’s baaaaaaaaack…” This time bigger, and better than ever – at least that’s the hope. With the Denver Marriott Tech Centre Hotel fully [...]
RMAF 2017: A preview (of sorts)
Dear Santa, All I want for Xmas is my RMAF by Eric Franklin Shook I’m not the long winded bullshit artist you might have originally thought or hoped me to be. I lean [...]
Devialet unveils partnership for TV audio hardware with UK giant Sky
The French wunderkind of advancing digital amplification is at it again. Devialet is getting into television audio in a big way. Having smashed into the audiophile world [...]
High End 2017: The Munich Experience, and Rafe’s best of the Show
I could see his lips moving but I couldn’t hear a word the guy next to me was saying. We were in the Silbatone room at the MOC for High End in Munich, and I had gone [...]
McIntosh Announces new MA9000 Integrated Amplifier
Touted as their “Biggest Integrated Amplifier” (which is really saying something), McIntosh Labs is today launching another battleship of an amp, this time an [...]