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Review: B.M.C. Audio PureMedia, PureUSB1, UltraDAC

January 16, 2016

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, but I have a hunch the number is rather small these days. Based on what [...]

Newport 2015: Cary Audio with Tannoy

July 14, 2015

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 ($6,000 US ~ $8,000 US TBA, six to eight weeks wait time). Running a laptop, [...]

Review: Cary DAC-100t Tube D/A Converter

September 6, 2014

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 are dipping their big toes in the murky waters of unexplored territory. In [...]

CAS 2014: Burwell & Sons and the best fun you could be having

September 1, 2014

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 like you’re Pam Grier. Either way, this might have some bearing on why [...]

CanMania 2014: Moon Audio lays out a feast

August 14, 2014

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 Audio360‘s Warren Chi and PTA Alum Frank Iacone. This is something of a [...]

CES 2014: What’s Up?

January 7, 2014

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 fun, there’s a ton of new products, and I have a gazillion friends out [...]

CES 2013: Cary Audio

January 30, 2013

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 transport, 384kHz sampling on all interfaces including its asynchronous USB [...]

Newport 2012: Chapman, Cary, Light Harmonic, MIT

June 25, 2012

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 since 1965! This is exactly why I love audio shows. I just never know what [...]

Newport 2012: The Home Theater Experience presents Tannoy, Cary, NAD, Synergistic

June 14, 2012

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 speakers are monsters. If you’ve ever heard of the big, [...]