Components
Bryston Audio 4B³ Power Amplifier | REVIEW
At first it sounded like a great idea. A few months ago, Bryston Audio (website) asked me if I wanted to review the newest version of their truly iconic power amplifier, the 4B. They […]
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Components
LFD NCSE Mk. 3 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW
The LFD NCSE Mk. 3 integrated amplifier (website) has no remote control. Nor does it have XLR inputs or outputs, a home theater bypass switch, 12V trigger operation, a built-in DAC, a wide range of […]
Components
Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum S2 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW
Four hundred watts per channel. The Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum S2 (website) has four hundred watts per channel. In over forty years of being an audiophile, including the twenty-plus years I’ve been reviewing hi-fi […]
Cables & Power
Nordost QKORE Ground Units and QKORE Wire | REVIEW
I enter the world of grounding, as it pertains to high-end audio, with some trepidation. When the Nordost QKORE products (website) first arrived at my doorstep—the QKORE1, QKORE 3 and QKORE6 Ground Units and quite […]
Buyers Guide
The Best Cables, Power, and Racks | Buyers Guide 2021
The Best Cables [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, which makes it […]
Loudspeakers
Vimberg Amea Loudspeakers | REVIEW
The Vimberg Amea (website) loudspeaker is a two-way, stand-mounted loudspeaker. I’m bringing this up first for a very good reason. When I first arrived at the front door of the Part-Time Audiophile headquarters more than […]
Analog
Andover Audio Model One Record Player and Model One Subwoofer | REVIEW
Is the Andover Audio Model One the good old-fashioned record player I’ve always wanted? For the last couple of years I’ve pushed this idea, mostly as a result of spending time with retail customers and […]
Cables & Power
AudioQuest Niagara 1200 and 3000 Power Conditioners | REVIEW
At a recent high-end audio show I sat with a group of colleagues in the hotel lobby and discussed, as we often do, what we had seen that was worthwhile. One person asked an interesting […]
Florida 2020
MartinLogan, McIntosh, AudioQuest | FLAX 2020
I’ve had a lot of recent seat time with MartinLogan, McIntosh and AudioQuest. I just finished a review of the MartinLogan 35XTi monitors with the Dynamo 800X subwoofer, which should be published soon. I just […]