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Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: Bryston goes active – or what’s in a crossover anyway?

July 7, 2017

Bryston is a name that has kept high fidelity tongues wagging for decades. The Canadian company is well known for their powerful, authoritative amplification, and for their incredible 20-year warranty on their products. But lately Bryston is [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: High Fives on Day Two

June 25, 2017

Smiles greeted me from a number of manufacturer representatives as I headed into HiFi Centre for the second, and final day of the inaugural Vancouver Audio Festival. Seems those tasked with room demos had been making “genuine, and positive [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Welcome to the Jungle

June 1, 2017

I strung together a long list of swear words and shook my suitcase helplessly. I was tired, and in no mood to be tested by an insubordinate piece of luggage. I had arrived at my hotel room at the Sheraton Gateway for the Los Angeles Audio Show and [...]

HiFi Centre steps in to fill void as Vancouver Audio Show pulled from Chester Group website

May 26, 2017

With the Vancouver Audio Show that was scheduled to run June 23rd to June 25th no longer appearing on show organizer The Chester Group’s website, Igor Kivritsky of Hifi Centre in downtown Vancouver is stepping in to put on a specialized high [...]

Wolfsong Audio and the Bold Sound of Bryston

December 17, 2016

By Lee Scoggins Over the weekend, I was lucky enough to be invited by Mike Burns to his beautiful lakeside home in Dawsonville, Georgia. The Bryston folks were in town and showing off two systems, both with the latest Bryston electronic and [...]

Newport 2016: Bryston mixes high-end sound, Canadian practicality

July 21, 2016

Bryston may be best known for two things: its fine-sounding, high-power amplifiers and its unmatched 20-year product warranty. But a trip to its room at T.H.E. Show in Newport proved the company has much more going for it these days than just that. [...]

Newport 2016: Wireworld

June 15, 2016

At THE Show, I got a new perspective on cables. Cables are a highly contentious topic in our industry, and it was refreshing to spend a few minutes with David Salz, Designer and Founder of Wireworld, on his perspective. Things people can’t argue: [...]

High End 2016: PMC introduces the twenty5 series speakers

June 6, 2016

For those who have been following my adventures here on Part-Time Audiophile and especially the annual Munich coverage it is no secret that I pay more attention to the ultra- mega-uber priced rooms than the affordable ones. Reason is, and [...]

Athens 2014: PMC speakers is recipe for good sound

December 8, 2014

In my opinion, a simple recipe for good sound is a three way speaker with a great mid-range driver, an amplifier capable of driving the aforementioned speaker with ease, and a good source that will extract all the information written on the medium. [...]

CAS 2014: Loggie Audio and YG Acoustics, metal-machine music

September 4, 2014

I’m always a bit suspicious of high-end speakers sporting cabinets that cost the designers a chunk of change to manufacture. You know, rare hardwoods, automobile-painted polymer resins, structural foam, even metal. The result usually is stunning [...]