Warsaw 2017: Blumenhofer, with a little help from a friend
Blumenhofer’s formula of square shaped horn speakers has drawn many eyes and ears, they perform anywhere from good to excellent depending on partnering gear. In Warsaw [...]
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Review: B.M.C. Audio PureMedia, PureUSB1, UltraDAC
By John Grandberg Think back for a second: when was the last time you actually played music directly from a CD, DVD-A, or SACD? Some readers may still be actively spinning, [...]
Newport 2015: Cary Audio with Tannoy
By Rafe Arnott Cary Audio‘s Daryl Berk had a nice, simple kit put together to showcase the company’s latest tubed preamplifier at Newport Beach, the TL-300d [...]
Review: Cary DAC-100t Tube D/A Converter
By Brian Hunter The (Digital) Times They Are A Changin’ With the onslaught of technological change and market shift impacting traditional hi-fi, more established companies [...]
CAS 2014: Burwell & Sons and the best fun you could be having
There’s something about stepping off an elevator to a blare of funk music that makes you suddenly feel a bit like you’re in a Quentin Tarantino movie. Or maybe [...]
CanMania 2014: Moon Audio lays out a feast
Capital Audiofest 2014 saw a very interesting evolution this year with the introduction of CanMania, a dedicated headphone/personal-audio show-within-a-show, organized by [...]
CES 2014: What’s Up?
I’m not going to CES this year. Sorry. Couldn’t do it. It’s not that I didn’t want to go. I did (God help me), and still do! It’s a lot of [...]
CES 2013: Cary Audio
Cary Audio brought one, two, three new digital toys to the show at CES this year! The first is the DMC-600 Digital Music Server ($4,995), shown above, which includes a CD [...]
Newport 2012: Chapman, Cary, Light Harmonic, MIT
What do I know? Not much, apparently. For example, I’ve never heard of Chapman speakers. Which is my oversight, obviously, since they’ve been building speakers [...]
Newport 2012: The Home Theater Experience presents Tannoy, Cary, NAD, Synergistic
The Home Theater Experience, of Carlsbad, CA, had two rooms full of Tannoy speakers — neither of which I’d heard before. My lucky day! The big $55k Kingdom Royal [...]
