Headamp always has their great Blue Hawaii and GS-X amplifiers sounding excellent at RMAF but this year was an introduction of the much more affordable Gilmore Lite 2 at $499 USD. Shipping in a few […]
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 movies, and I couldn’t help but mentally compare […]
Streaming. All the cool cats are doing it. However, confession time…I’m a bit lost. I have some pieces of a puzzle but I don’t know how to put them together. Network bridge? Tidal HiFi? Roon? […]
I ran into Andy Regan at the Pint Brothers bar at RMAF on Friday when a good number of us audio nerds were having beers and a very late lunch. He said he had moved […]
Ken Ball of ALO Audio and off-shoot Campfire Audio is a fixture on the CanJam scene. I thought he had one of the best displays at the show because there was his fascinating vacuum-tube-based (!) […]
In the past, I have loved the iFi Audio gear for my computer audio playback system. Everything I have tried has worked well and, maybe best of all, the individual pieces are usually just a […]
Mytek Digital had prime real estate near the tower elevators at this year’s RMAF. I wound up stopping by for a more lengthy time finally on Sunday when things were a little less crazy and […]
Even though it’s Labour Day around the world, and we’re all supposed to be doing our level best to avoid work like the plague, I felt compelled to bring you news that digital-music juggernaut MQA has […]
by John Richardson I come from a do-it-yourself type family. To the best of my knowledge, this handy trait started out with both of my grandfathers and got handed down from there. One was a […]
Sonos had a strong showing at the Vancouver Audio Festival with it’s PLAY:5 speaker system, and the new PLAYBASE television sound base. I’ve seen, and heard the budget-oriented PLAY:1, PLAY:3, and PLAY:5 speakers a number of times, […]
Looking at the Border Patrol SE DAC, you have to smile. It’s cute! Can you even say that about at kick-ass piece of audio gear? Maybe it’s disrespectful. Too bad — because everybody knows that good […]
This is the second part of a three-part series on living with a computer-based audio system from an analog diehard’s perspective, and how it has changed the way my family, and I listen to music […]
MQA continues to muscle through the audio world with yet another coup in the digital-audio player market. Audirvana Plus, the well-loved desktop music application for Mac OS has just announced that their latest Plus 3 player includes […]
Brand new Raspberry Pi 3 officially launched! […]
by John Grandberg State of the Art It’s a great time for computer-based audio. Just ask Chris Connaker from Computer Audiophile. His site started in 2007 and has grown to become kind of a big […]
Xuanqian Wang and Richard Colburn of Auralic were on hand to show off their Gemini headphone amp/DAC combos. If you haven’t seen them, they’re rather striking — a tall, columnar headphone stand finished in lacquered […]
by John Grandberg Computer Audio. Do you shudder at the term? Is it a confusing, murky category that you don’t fully understand? Do you read show reports and sense the inevitability, like you had better […]
— by John Grandberg Just how important is the transport in a quality audio system? It’s a deceptively difficult question. Notice I’m asking specifically about transport rather than DAC. If you browse various audio forums […]
I miss my old Lampizat0r Level 4 DAC. This says something rather telling, I think. There’s been a lot of gear that’s come through here that I’ve been quite enamored of. But even so, there’s […]
“The problem with your music rig isn’t your music rig. It’s your room.” This is pretty much the received wisdom when it comes to system sound quality. It’s also BS. Okay, that’s strong — it’s […]
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