RMAF 2019
Innuos Music Servers | RMAF 2019
Innuos music servers seemed to be the go-to digital players for so many rooms at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, so much so that when I finally met the Innuos crew at an after-show […]
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Munich 2019
Ayre 8 Series | High End 2019
Ayre (website) was one of the earliest to market with a good USB DAC. That’s how I remember seeing and interacting with them. The QB-9 did one thing (USB) and did that one thing well, and […]
Florida 2019
FLORIDA 2019: House of Stereo, Wolf Audio Systems, TAD, Wireworld
House of Stereo brings retail sensibility to a small room, Wolf Audio Systems takes us back to the future, TAD (Technical Audio Devices) puts a fine point on detail, Ayre Acoustics continues to build a […]
RMAF 2015
RMAF 2015: Merging Technologies and German Physiks gets my attention with digital
It’s not too often that I will raise an unkempt eyebrow over a digital rig. But as I stumbled about The Tower at RMAF (where I was sentenced like Quasimodo by Scot Hull), I came […]
CanJam SoCal 2015
CanJam SoCal 2015, Part 3: Amplification
By Lee Shelly Schiit Audio The first stop I made (pre- show!), was to the Schiit booth. When I got there, Jason Stoddard was fighting with his flagship system … no sound was coming out … […]
CES 2015
CES 2015: Beyond Pono, Ayre still hot
I suppose that some of you, reading this, do in fact live under a rock or are otherwise sheltered from the world, and in so doing, have completely missed the hullabaloo around Neil Young’s high-resolution […]
RMAF 2014
RMAF 2014: DeVore Fidelity and the coming apocalypse
You are alone. Night is coming, quickly, like a wave leading the tide; it’s rolling forward now, from a horizon hidden by the line of trees. There are sounds. Dusk sounds. The rising chorus of […]
CAS 2014
CAS 2014: Ayre and Marantz join 9′ of Sound Lab
I may have mentioned that Friday was a bit of a slog at this show. Equipment was cold, rooms were amusical, and sound was, in general, something less than fulfilling. The large room presented by […]
CAS 2013
CAS 2013: Music Lovers presents Wilson, Aesthetix, AMG, Ayre, Shunyata
Music Lovers Audio debuted Wilson Audio‘s Duette Series 2 ($19,500), small stand-mount speakers designed specifically for tight spaces — they are designed to be placed near a wall or on a bookshelf. This latest iteration of […]
CAS 2013
CAS 2013: ENIGMAcoustics
ENIGMAcoustics was present to demonstrate not just their impressive Sopranino super tweeter, but their new Mythology M1 bookshelf speakers ($15,000/pair, including the supertweeter and stands). The Mythologies, which were powered by Ayre amplification and a […]
CES 2013
CES 2013: Ayre
Last Fall, Ayre showed off their new AX-5 integrated amp in a room that, quite frankly, took my breath away. That gear showed up here, at CES, with a slight change — the new VX-5 […]
RMAF 2012
RMAF12: Hot Ayre puts on the Best in Show
And the award for “Best In Show” goes to … whoever the hell rolled up a set from “Mad Men” and un-rolled it into a room at the Denver Tech Center Marriott. Ska-doosh! Seriously. Look […]
Publishers Desk
In search of a new reference?
The thing about references is that they tend to be bettered. Sometimes convincingly. Sometimes, not so much. But the mere hint that the summit upon which an audiophile has planted his flag is, in fact, […]
AXPONA 2012
AXPONA 2012: KEF, Ayre, Oracle, Audience
At RMAF, one of my lingering disappointments was that I completely missed the one day that KEF was showing off the new Blade loudspeakers. One lousy day, and then they were gone. And I missed […]
