Rogers, Wilson, dCS, Transparent | AXPONA 2019
Paragon Sight & Sound had a second room that kind of caught me off guard. Rogers High Fidelity electronics were featured with Wilson Audio Alexia 2s ($57,900). [...]
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Wilson Audio, D’Agostino, dCS, and Clearaudio | AXPONA 2019
About three years ago, I attended a fabulous demo with Peter McGrath in a room with a humble T+A integrated amplifier. The speakers were the $109,000 Wilson Audio Alexx, [...]
Clearaudio Innovation Basic Turntable | Review
For us analogoholics, you can never have enough LPs or turntables to play them on! For the last few years, I have been blessed with the company of an AMG Viella V12 [...]
FLORIDA 2019: The Best of The Show, and Wrap-Up
To wrap things up, I think the major question of the show was answered. If the Florida Audio Expo was indeed an experiment, I think the results have given us a proof of [...]
Thales Simplicity II Tonearm Review
On March 27th, 1983, the New York Times published an article titled “Sound; Tonearms: Is Linear Better?”. The article read like a technical paper, more sophisticated than [...]
CAF 2018: Black Ice Audio (Jolida); A name, and new designs from Jim Fosgate
Jim Fosgate is a name as well known in Hi-Fi circles as it is in the world of car audio, television, and movies. Jim is known for inventing the first car audio amplifier in [...]
RMAF 2018: A Critical Eye
Photography by Paul Elliott I have completely bought into the music reproduction industry ever since I heard the difference between lamp cord as speaker wire and Monster [...]
RMAF 2018: Audio Research, Sonus Faber, and UHQR
Fast on the heels of a successful AXPONA show which saw Audio Research introduce the Ref 160 monoblock amplifiers with Wilson Alexia 2 speakers, the team showed up again with [...]
ZYX UNIverse Optimum 1Ω MC Cartridge | Review
Astonishment, personified US $16,995.00. There, I’ve said it, in bold. That’s nearly seventeen thousand dollars for a phono cartridge. I still remember the first [...]
AXPONA 2018: Quintessence and Musical Surroundings, a devotion to sound
A world within the show, a Quintessence Audio LTD exhibit only requires a few steps physically (none socially) to transport you to a wonderland of high-end audio toys. For [...]
