CAS 2014: Eficion’s near-perfect tweet
No other speaker component gets as much attention from innovators and fiddlers as the tweeter. It’s easy to understand why: your ears can forgive some weaknesses in the [...]
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RMAF 2013: Exemplar and eFicion
Here’s just about the most damning bit from Kirsten’s show notes: “The room seems noisy.” Here’s just about the most complimentary bit from my [...]
CAS 2013: A Children’s Treasury of Missed Opportunities, or, The End
Too many exhibitors saw too little of us. Worse yet, we heard too little of them to write anything fair. We could say they were lovely. We could complain that they sounded [...]
RMAF12: Coming home to eFicion and Plinius
If you’ll pardon the promotion, but every time I find a demo room with either Plinius or eFicion, I kinda feel like a judge who refuses to recuse himself when hearing a [...]
Second Thoughts: Digging into the eFicion F300
As Luck would have it Bruce Jacobs, the self-described Old Audio Dude (and the Sales Manager for loudspeaker manufacturer eFicion), is wily fox. Given that the eFicion F300 [...]
A Visit from Border Patrol and Living Voice
Gary Dews has, for the last several years, put together one of my favorite rooms at the Capital Audiofest. Who’s Gary? He is the man behind Border Patrol, and what he [...]
Newport 2012: eFicion, Plinius, Z∞Infinity
I walked into Peigen Jiang’s room at Newport and nearly laughed out loud. No, no — it’s not like that, I’m not being mean — it’s just that [...]
The circle is now complete — Day 1 with the eFicion F300
Any speaker that shows up — anywhere — in a piano black finish is gonna draw looks. A modular one with all-black drivers, well, that’s gonna draw comments. [...]
RMAF 2011: Eficion, Exemplar, Stillpoints, LSA
$15k Exemplar Audio XP-1, a fully balanced dual-mono outboard PSU preamplifier, fed into an $11k LSA Statement Integrated amplifier, used as a power amp. The $6500 Exemplar [...]
