Loudspeakers
Piega Coax 411 Loudspeakers | REVIEW
I now feel, after spending time with the Piega Coax 411 speakers, as if I dropped the ball when I wrote about the debut of the new EMT 928 II turntable back in the MoFi […]
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AXPONA 2023
Wharfedale Dovedale | AXPONA 2023
The brand new Wharfedale Dovedale loudspeakers remind me some of my favorite BBC speaker designs, those big-box affairs such as the Spendor SP100s, which I owned for many years, the Harbeth 40s, which I’ve loved […]
Florida 2023
Best of FLAX: Marc’s Picks | FLAX 2023
I admit that posting my Top Five rooms at the 2023 Florida Audio Expo on Brian Hunter’s AudioHead site might have been premature. Now everyone already knows my Top Five, and I don’t want to […]
Florida 2023
EMT and MoFi | FLAX 2023
I’m going to tell you my favorite discovery during the 2023 Florida Audio Show, the single new product that excites me the most. It’s the EMT 928 II turntable, brought to the United States by […]
Florida 2023
FLAX Friday Highlights | FLAX 2023
Florida in February always sounds like a good idea–on paper. But as soon as I landed in Tampa with high humidity and temperature in the mid ’80s, I remembered why I moved to the Pacific […]
Audio Advice Live 2022
Best of Show and Wrap-Up | Audio Advice LIVE 2022
Audio Advice LIVE 2022, It’s a Wrap! RALEIGH, NC (PTA) — The Sheraton Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina has long since returned to normal. The exhibitors have long since packed up, loaded their chariots, and flown […]
Audio Advice Live 2022
Piega, HiFi Rose, Dr. Feickert Analog, EMT, BAT, MoFi Distribution | Audio Advice LIVE 2022
The One You’ve All Been Waiting For MoFi Distribution brought the most serious system of Audio Advice LIVE 2022. The MoFi room was indeed the talk of the show. Reporting by Eric Franklin Shook Feature […]
Buyers Guide
The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide Summer 2021
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 […]
The Vinyl Anachronist
Judy Stuart, The Apostolic Session | The Vinyl Anachronist
I really want to more about this Judy Stuart. A couple of days ago I received this 10″ 45rpm single in the mail, The Apostolic Session, and I’m still reeling from the discombobulation of it […]
Analog
Ana Mighty Sound, Great Cartridge Maker and Rebuilder | REVIEW
Before I even bring up Ana Mighty Sound (website), let me state that I abhor rebuilt cartridges. They are to me, unholy, defiled, inferior, and more often than not, a far cry from the real […]
Analog
The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide 2021
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 […]
Munich 2019
The all out assault from YG and Nagra | High End 2019
This is the kind of rooms that make people visit the Munich show. This is also the kind of room that make some of our readers scream at us, at the industry as a general. […]
Canada
The List: Five of the Best Phono Cartridges in The World
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 […]
CAF 2017
Capital Audiofest 2017: Tone Imports and Old Forge Studio keep us grounded
The Story A very unique room as Shindo and Auditorium 23 are not often seen at audio shows, so this weekend feels like a welcomed blessing. Also making a very rare appearance is J.C. Verdier […]
Canada
DVL Album of the Month for November – the dub god King Tubby
This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the bins, and coming up with […]
Munich 2017
High End 2017: Munich mayhem on opening day
As much as I’d heard about the High End Show in Munich none of it really prepared me for the level of polish, and professionalism that the event exudes. This is an order of magnitude […]
RMAF 2016
RMAF 2016: DeVore Fidelity and Tone Imports highlight Well-Tempered, Sugden’s powers of persuasion
High-efficiency speakers and tubes, that’s what you’re supposed to do, it’s what we’re taught. I should know, that’s my jam. Jonathan Halpern of Tone Imports, and John DeVore of DeVore Fidelity are like the peanut […]
Announcements
Auditorium 23 to release Step-up Transformer voiced for legendary EMT TSD-15 cartridge
Jonathan Halpern of Tone Imports, and Keith Aschenbrenner, the man behind Auditorium 23 products out of Germany, have confirmed that there will be a soon-to-be released EMT (Elektro-Mess-Technik) TSD-15 Step-up Transformer. Halpern has had a […]
Audio-Life
A visit to PDX Hi-fi: Leben CS600, DeVore O/93, EMT, Well Tempered Labs and Acoustic Plan… a motion in sound
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 […]
High End 2015
High End 2015: Magico
Magico did not bring the highly expected M-Project in Munich’s High End 2015 show but maybe it was too much to ask, after all they did brought the Ultimate III last year, so instead, we […]