Every year at Part-Time Audiophile, the editors discuss whether or not we should do another year-end Holiday Gift guide. I’m not particularly fond of the idea. I’m not a big holiday person after my early […]
Florida Audio Expo 2022 Big speakers, big amps, and big sound. The math checks out. The gentlemen from Classic Audio Loudspeakers show large with their well known field coil loudspeakers, and mixture of new and […]
TAMPA, FL (PTA) — Classic Audio Loudspeakers, Purist Audio Design, and Atma-Sphere host one of the best getaway rooms at the Florida Audio Expo. Technics, Tri-Planar, Van den Hul, Air Tight, and Studer come along […]
When I walked into the Classic Audio Loudspeakers room at the 2019 Capital Audiofest, it looked exactly like the Classic Audio Loudspeaker room at the 2018 Capital Audiofest. If I compared the photos from my […]
Classic Audio Loudspeakers brings field coil sound to the Florida Audio Expo, the minds at Purist Audio Design give us a tour of their Neptune series cables, Atma-Sphere brings the Novacron, Tri-Planar flexes their Ultimate […]
by Paul Elliott VPI Mat and Harry Weisfeld did not escape NJ to the sunny south, Marc Boyle was down repping VPI in a couple of rooms, so I asked Marc about the design philosophy. VPI […]
Classic Audio Loudspeakers shows us Field Coils and Reel-to-Reel tape, Atma-Sphere brings the heat, Tri-Planar lends a strong arm, and Purist Audio Design takes us to Neptune — what’s not to like? The Story Once […]
I caught up to Purist Audio Design‘s Jim Aud at RMAF, where the music flowed like water and the dynamics made the angels weep. This was a great room. Of course, this was also a Classic Audio Loudspeaker […]
There are over 1,000,000 brands exhibiting here at Capital Audiofest … okay, okay, — I don’t know how many brands exactly, but it does seem like a lot this year. Which makes 2018’s event feel […]
The Story I ran to this room when I was told Classic Audio Loudspeakers would be demoing with the Atma-Sphere Novacron monoblock amplifiers. Originally introduced in 1991, the Novacron was the first US product to use […]
When I started seeing reel-to-reel tape decks popping up at high-end shows a few years ago, I wrote it off as a novelty. Yes, good old vinyl was booming, but tape? Really? Then I heard […]
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