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LA Audio Show 2017: The $350 to $5,000 systems they were lining up for

June 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

There were a number of spectacular, cost-no-object components drawing stereo fans at the Los Angeles Audio Show, but the room I had the hardest time getting into featured a [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Inaugural event targets newcomers as well as hard-core hobbyists

June 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

If organizers of the Los Angeles Audio Show battled any jitters while planning their brand-new event in a very crowded year, those fears likely have eased in recent weeks. [...]

“Affordable high-end” — is that like “jumbo shrimp”?

March 4, 2017 // 11 Comments

How many Simolians do you have to part with these days to get good sound? I mean, really? Is it even possible, or just a frustrating pipe dream? That seems to have been Topic [...]

RMAF 2016 Wrap: Mission Accomplished/Best of Show

December 11, 2016 // 9 Comments

Escaping on the last jet out of Denver after the close of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016, I felt a little like the nervous spy-support staff member Faisil in the 1994 movie [...]

Audio Advice: “Music Matters” in Charlotte, NC — Part 2

December 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Eric Franklin Shook From The Bottom To The Top Poverty in the American South has many names, one of them being Laurinburg. It’s a small town in North Carolina, just [...]

Audio Advice: “Music Matters” in Raleigh, NC — Part 1

November 24, 2016 // 6 Comments

by Eric Franklin Shook There are people; then there are these people Narrow minded, prejudiced, ready to make assumptions about places different from where they grew up. [...]

RMAF 2016: High-End Sound Wafts From the Bargain Basement

October 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Is it possible in this day and age to buy a high-fidelity stereo system — brand new — for a Jackson over five bills? I know that sounds like a tall order, or even [...]

Newport 2016: Audioengine revs up with new HD6

July 22, 2016 // 5 Comments

I occasionally have friends say to me, “Hey, you write for an audio magazine. How can I get a good hi-fi system without spending as much as you have?” These are the folks [...]

Best of 2015 and Product of the Year

December 30, 2015 // 7 Comments

2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, [...]

RMAF 2015: Lee’s Best

December 4, 2015 // 1 Comment

It is quite difficult to single out the best products given that there are so many great products on demo at RMAF every year. So I’m going to cheat a little and mention a [...]