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RMAF 2015: Rafe’s Best

November 27, 2015 Rafe Arnott 2

Best Room Picking Tone Imports as my top choice for Best Room in Denver for me was easy because it was run by two people whose ears I implicitly trust, whose taste runs parallel to […]

RMAF 2015: The Denver show that was

November 26, 2015 Rafe Arnott 1

I’m sure this is not the Denver RMAF 2015 wrap-up that anybody wants, but too bad, this what you’re getting…. I’d had too much coffee. I could literally feel my blood pounding behind my slightly-bulging […]

What’s Next/Coming Soon

November 18, 2015 Scot Hull 2

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 […]

RMAF 2015: The sound and smell of “Real Sound” from SPEC Corp. Japan

October 5, 2015 Rafe Arnott 8

The quiet Japanese man’s name was Shuzou Ishimi. We had been drinking Brooklyn Gin Saturday night at RMAF that John DeVore had been generously pouring for myself, Ishimi-san and several other invitees including John Darko, […]

RMAF 2015: DeVore debuts long-awaited Gibbon X production loudspeaker

October 3, 2015 Rafe Arnott 5

“Absolutely full range, absolutely modern transparency, imaging and sound-staging capabilities combined with impedance and sensitivity… that is tube friendly.” – John DeVore on his Gibbon X loudspeaker, RMAF 2015 The man looked haggard, eyes slightly […]

Review: Transrotor Fat Bob Reference, SME TR 5009 and Koetsu Onyx Platinum.

September 26, 2015 Rafe Arnott 3

Transrotor, SME and Koetsu. I think it’s safe to say these are three of the top names in their respective fields of manufacture: turntables, tonearms and moving-coil cartridges. Just looking at the Fat Bob’s lines you […]

A visit to PDX Hi-fi: Leben CS600, DeVore O/93, EMT, Well Tempered Labs and Acoustic Plan… a motion in sound

August 28, 2015 Rafe Arnott 10

The music was loud. It was coming through a door to our right, and it sounded really good. Although we’re two grown men, we must have looked like a pair of crazy owls as we […]

DeVore Fidelity Gibbon X — Live in NoVA

February 24, 2015 Editorial Staff 1

Got this note from my local audio dealer, Jeff Fox, and thought I’d pass it along. Be a good time to check out the speaker I was so smitten with at the NYAV Show, RMAF and CES. […]

CES 2015: DeVore Fidelity, a new Gibbon, and a ride with The Driver

January 27, 2015 Scot Hull 1

It was 9 p.m. Time to go and The Driver was ready. A quick shuffling. Half of us were pointed one way, the others went to the other car. DeVore had been rather deliberately vague. […]

Best of 2014 and The Product of the Year

December 31, 2014 Scot Hull 11

It was the best of times. It was the not-best-of-times. But whatever it was, and wherever it lies on the Arc of Interesting, 2014 saw some pretty amazing stuff and some truly inspiring stories, and […]

RMAF 2014: Goodbye, Rocky Mountain High

November 16, 2014 Scot Hull 3

Or, an Introvert Goes to Denver I’ve attended a few audio shows in the last 5 years. Okay, that’s not true. I’ve attended a lot of shows in the last 5 years. Every one of them is […]

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RMAF 2014: DeVore Fidelity and the coming apocalypse

October 23, 2014 Scot Hull 4

You are alone. Night is coming, quickly, like a wave leading the tide; it’s rolling forward now, from a horizon hidden by the line of trees. There are sounds. Dusk sounds. The rising chorus of […]

New York 2014: The Monkeyhaus, the 21st Century Audiophile, and the End of Line

October 9, 2014 Scot Hull Comments Off

The Monkeyhaus is something of an urban legend. It’s usually discussed in hushed tones. Photographs are always blurred. No one ever seems to go and be willing to talk about the experience. Until now. Bwaahahahahahahahaaaa! […]

AXPONA 2014: DeVore Fidelity and Resolution Audio

May 8, 2014 Scot Hull 4

John DeVore has been working on his Gibbon X loudspeakers for several years now, but he thinks the end is in sight — with luck, the new monkeys will get the final tuning and tweaking […]

RMAF 2013: Eugene Hifi presents: DeVore Fidelity

October 19, 2013 Scot Hull 5

There’s this camp in the world of audiophile that champions the use of high-quality/low-power amplification as the One True Path to Audio Enlightenment. The problem with this seems to be that it’s much harder to […]

Manufacturer’s Comment: DeVore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 Stereophile measurement comparisons

May 21, 2013 Editorial Staff 3

There’s nothing like measurements to really get an audiophile out of their chair and onto an Internet forum! My unreview of the DeVore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 loudspeaker generated a few comments and a lot of […]

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In Focus: DeVore Fidelity Orangutan O/96

May 19, 2013 Scot Hull 15

Every now and again, I get my greasy monkey paws on something truly fine. This? This is one of those times. Say hello to the DeVore Fidelity Orangutan O/96.