
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 bass or even the midrange, but if […]
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 bass or even the midrange, but if […]
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 notes: “Thank CHRIST he had the air conditioner on max.” If […]
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 terrible. The exhibitors, […]
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 case he himself […]
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 loudspeakers that I had been so enamored […]
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 does is make amplifiers. […]
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 I have this system at home! Or […]
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. As I was unboxing the eFicion F300s […]
$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 XPH-1 phono stage handled the analog duties.The turntable […]
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