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AXPONA 2017: Music From Another Room, Part 2

June 11, 2017

A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, proving again that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Axpona is to me an ensemble interpretation of beauty, ruggedness, finesse and power; all tangled in a whirlwind [...]

AXPONA 2017: Daedalus goes deeper with new 10-inch woofer

June 5, 2017

The last time I listened at length to a pair of Daedalus Audio speakers at a show, they were flanked by the company’s custom subwoofers. At AXPONA, I again was impressed by the low frequencies coming from a Daedalus design; this time the new [...]

AXPONA 2017: Putting eyeballs and eardrums on the latest gear

April 22, 2017

If high-end audio manufacturers harbor many serious concerns about the state of the industry, you wouldn’t know it from the long list of new products that went on display Friday at AXPONA in Chicago. The annual, three-day Audio Expo North America [...]

Capital Audiofest 2016: Daedalus goes BorderPatrol, stirring wood

July 23, 2016

I suppose it shouldn’t have been surprising to see, but the team-up between two American-Made brands was unexpected — and delightfully so. Daedalus loudspeakers, a visually striking example of modern design meets retro styling, paired [...]

Newport 2016: ModWright can do no wrong with Ryan, Daedalus

July 13, 2016

It’s notoriously difficult for audio manufacturers to present consistently outstanding sound from show to show, with the vagaries of hotel rooms, onsite power and a sometimes constantly shifting assortment of partners bringing other gear. [...]

Review: Daedalus Audio Ulysses v2

November 28, 2015

Got Wood? Lou Hinkley’s choice of using solid wood in his loudspeaker designs may be something of a throwback. An anachronism. I like to think of it as a semi-deliberate “up yours” to the armchair philosophers that have nothing [...]

What’s Next/Coming Soon

November 18, 2015

Here we are, mid-November. It’s a glorious time to be alive. I say that with full acknowledgement of the “challenges”, which is a nice euphemism for “a can of worms I’m happy to open, but don’t really think this [...]

RMAF 2015: Daedalus, ModWright go for the heart

November 3, 2015

Like Fitzgerald and Armstrong, Simon and Garfunkel or Jagger and Richards, some pairings were just made for each other. That’s the same feeling I got from auditioning the Daedalus speakers at RMAF 2015, combined with ModWright Instruments [...]

CAF 2015: Daedalus, ModWright and VPI

September 4, 2015

Leveraging an unusual corner-of-the-room setup, Lou Hinkley of Daedalus Audio and Dan Wright of ModWright managed to wring some spell-binding sound out of the Capital Audiofest this year. None of this stuff is exactly cheap. It’s also not [...]

CAF 2015: Viva HiFi presents Daedalus, ModWright and VPI

September 3, 2015

ModWright was showing off a brand-new all-tube venture in concert with his partner-in-crime, the wood-working wizard behind Daedalus Audio. The new widget? The Ambrose, an EL-34-based single-ended pentode amplifier! Apparently, this is a test-shot [...]