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The Best Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 4, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents […]

The Ivory Tower

Why Aren’t There More Audiophiles? | The Ivory Tower

March 27, 2022 Dave McNair 36

Big Kids Toys I recently attended an audiophile event at one of my favorite local hi-fi haunts, Big Kids Toys AV, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Shop owner Mike Toomey was one of the first folks […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms and Headshells | Buyers Guide 2022

November 26, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

Welcome to the Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide Summer 2021

May 16, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

The Best Tonearms [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best tonearms that we, the PTA team, have heard.] Tonearms Sorane TA-1L ($1,875 USD) From the Japanese […]

Analog

The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide 2021

December 4, 2020 Editorial Staff 11

The Best Tonearms [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, which makes it […]

Announcements

DENON 110th Anniversary Special Edition Flagship Components

September 8, 2020 Editorial Staff Comments Off on DENON 110th Anniversary Special Edition Flagship Components

VISTA, CA (PTA) — It takes an very large cake to hold 110 candles, and with four new special edition flagship components on deck, Denon should have no problem blowing them out. Not bad for […]

Cables & Power

Furutech NCF Clear Line Power Supply Optimizer | REVIEW

August 29, 2020 Marc Phillips 10

See if this takes you back. There’s a device you can buy that you can plug into any AC outlet in a room, and it transforms the sound of your hi-fi system. Sound familiar? There […]

Analog

Fern & Roby Montrose Turntable and Tonearm | REVIEW

July 10, 2020 Marc Phillips 2

A few months ago, Dave and Carol Clark of Positive Feedback made a social media post where they told friends in the industry they were looking for a new turntable and asked everyone an audiophile’s […]

Analog

Hana ML Phono Cartridge | REVIEW

May 31, 2020 Marc Phillips 3

My first experience with Hana cartridges of Japan came at the 2016 Newport Show when I had organized my Down Under Audio exhibit rooms for Colleen Cardas Imports. My idea was this—after visiting Australia in […]

Florida 2020

Andover Audio and the Rebirth of the Record Player | FLAX 2020

February 15, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Andover Audio and the Rebirth of the Record Player | FLAX 2020

I think the folks at Andover Audio have been listening to my griping and grousing over the lack of all-in-one record players that also sound good, and for a reasonable price. For a number of […]

RMAF 2019

Friday’s Highlights | RMAF 2019

September 7, 2019 Marc Phillips 4

Friday at the 2019 RMAF was one of those long, busy and productive days where at the end of it you sit back and think wow, I met a lot of interesting people. Not just […]

THE Show 2019

PBN Audio Does It All | T.H.E. Show 2019

June 23, 2019 Marc Phillips Comments Off on PBN Audio Does It All | T.H.E. Show 2019

I’ve known Peter Noerbaek of PBN Audio forever–he’s one of those guys I see at audio shows and I always find time to stop and talk to him because we’re both vinyl guys, and I […]

Components

Rowen Absolute MONO | Mini-Review

February 15, 2019 Norman Williams 3

Who is Rowen? Every dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying, worldly audiophile knows of all the significant audio companies coming out of that highly regarded Alpine nation, right? Well, maybe not. Not only is Rowen a major player (website) […]

Canada

The List: Five of the Best Phono Cartridges in The World

December 31, 2017 Rafe Arnott 8

Welcome to something new we’re going to try here on PTA thanks to our friend Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I’m going to be curating a new list every month featuring different categories […]

Warsaw 2017

Warsaw 2017: Closer Acoustics: field coils, tapes and records

November 26, 2017 Panagiotis Karavitis 3

I was complaining about several “me too” rooms and products on the Polish show, Closer Acoustics is definitely not a knock off. The room had single driver field coil speakers playing music through a 12″ […]

Announcements

Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics purchased by Sound United, owners of Polk Audio

March 1, 2017 Scot Hull 1

Big news on the M&A front as Sound United, the parent company that owns Polk Audio and Definitive Technology has announced that they are acquiring the D+M Group, the owners of Denon, Marantz, and Boston […]

Analog

Going analog without breaking the bank

August 3, 2016 Panagiotis Karavitis 4

Going analog, without breaking the bank This is what I currently use as front end: A Garrard Classic 401 idler drive turntable, bought new old stock, fitted on a massive Baltic birch plywood plinth, sitting […]

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AXPONA

AXPONA 2014: Denon & Marantz

May 11, 2014 Scot Hull 5

D&M were here at AXPONA with offerings Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics. These guys are still on my go-to list for quality sound, great features, and reasonable prices — I have a Marantz receiver running […]

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Headphones

Audio360.org Digs the Woo Audio WA7 Fireflies

January 20, 2014 Editorial Staff 2

A syndicated article from Audio360.org by amos barnett, warren chi, michael liang, kevin venable & ethan wolf Remember your first kiss, a new puppy wagging its tail at you, the opening notes of your favorite song, […]

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