Bricasti M1 Review: Balancing Head and Heart
Perks of the trade Looking at the Bricasti M1 reminds me of one of the coolest perks of reviewing high-end audio equipment: I get to hear lots of different types of gear in [...]
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Burning Amps and Summer Ghosts: Summertime at PTA
Summertime. Hot hazy humid days. But it’s more “wet” than anything else, this year. Still, it’s summer. Time for lolling about, also known as [...]
AXPONA 2018: Triode Wire Labs, Border Patrol, Volti Audio
There is a reason. If we’re being serious, this is obvious — because there’s always a reason. It may be stupid, it may be incidental, it may be irrelevant, [...]
Capital Audiofest 2017: Border Patrol, Volti Audio, Triode Wire Labs
I’ve always looked forward to the involving sound in the Border Patrol room, so I made a note stop by early on Saturday morning for a good listen, well before the crowds [...]
RMAF 2013: This is the End
Wow. What a show! Before anything else, a doff of the cap to the fine folks that put this paroxysm of audio joy together. Marjorie, what a way to celebrate 10 years! In case [...]
RMAF 2013: Snake River Audio, Sonist, BorderPatrol, Baetis, Berkeley
I had to smile upon seeing the Sonist Audio Randy Bankert Memorial Edition speakers: these special edition Concerto 4’s ($5,895) are stained in tobacco brown in honor [...]
AXPONA 2013: Heading to Chicago
I bought the tickets, right? Whew. Hotel? Ah, right. Now, where is all that camera crap …. Yes, it’s time to start worrying and spinning in circles — [...]
Micro (-brewed) Capital Audiofest
I’m heading out to Gary Gill’s place in Baltimore today for a day of audio and microbrews. Micro-CAF is here! Gary’s got a bunch of locals swinging by with [...]
On The Road: A Visit To BorderPatrol
What is an audiophile? Good question, but more interestingly, how do you think your friends would answer that question? Okay — don’t answer that [shudder]. Back [...]
RMAF12: BorderPatrol, take me away to The Living Voice
Sometimes, you need to get away from it all. I mean, that is why we set up those man-caves, isn’t it? I always thought that the very idea was absurd — why would [...]