Munich High End 2018: The show that all shows want to be?
MUNICH. Have you seen the 2005 Academy Award® historical thriller by Steven Spielberg? If you haven’t let me just say it’s intense. I bring it up because if you [...]
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Part-Time Audiophile’s favorite albums of 2017
You’ll note that we’re not calling this the Best Albums of 2017. There are plenty of those lists out there, and they are pretty much dominated by this year’s critical [...]
RMAF 2017: Rafe wraps up the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver
Risky Business is a classic American film about coming of age, materialism, capitalist society, and taking chances. My son brought it up in a recent conversation about [...]
RMAF 2017: Getting audiophile sound on a budget
In a hobby where dropping a hundred grand for a system is common, what can you get these days for, say, $1,500 USD? An interconnect, maybe? A cartridge? Tax? Well, how about [...]
RMAF 2017: Nordost shows the power of better cords
OK, you’ve decided to upgrade your cables. What should you start with? Speaker cables, right? They usually are the longest wires in a system and the last to handle your [...]
RMAF 2017: Bluebird Music Sets The Table
Bluebird Music had a huge suite and lots of goodies. Richard Colburn and Jay Rein were showing off some new gear from SME, Chord, and Vienna Acoustics. Starting with the [...]
RMAF 2017: Gryphon Audio delivers the big sound in Denver
Big systems can be difficult to curate components for, especially ones where you have massive, multi-driver speaker arrays with complex crossovers that can soak up a lot of [...]
Audio Note UK factory tours and Life in the fast lane with Peter Qvortrup
Coffee. Champagne. Coffee. Russian liqueur. Coffee. Tequila. Coffee. Whiskey. Coffee. Red wine. Coffee… I lost track of the actual number of drinks, and coffees I had [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Nothing baffling about performance of Emerald Physics speakers
There always are a number of mini-trends going on at any one time in the high-end. Lately, some of those have includes tape decks, vibration-control devices and integrated [...]
Rotel introduces new integrated amplifier, preamplifier and CD player
Rotel has been building high-fidelity electronic components for more than five decades, and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down with the introduction of their new [...]