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GT Audio Works showstopping sound, along with Basis Audio, My Sonic Lab, Pass Labs, Esoteric, Innuos, Triode Wire Labs | CAF 2019

November 6, 2019 // 1 Comment

WASHINGTON DC (PTA) — Once again, I’m in the role of converting the convinced. I feel like it’s my calling in life sometimes, and once more it’s with Dave McNair, who [...]

Acora Acoustics, Esoteric, Aurender, Cardas | RMAF 2019

September 18, 2019 // 1 Comment

DENVER (PTA) — At the beginning of the summer Marc Phillips and myself attended T.H.E. SHOW 2019 in Long Beach, California. While there we both independently discovered [...]

Marc’s Wrap Up | T.H.E. Show 2019

July 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

After T.H.E. Show 2019, I did something that I should have done at High-End 2019 in Munich–I stayed a couple of extra days after the show ended. A good friend of mine [...]

Acora Acoustics, VAC, Cardas, Charisma, Codia | T.H.E. Show 2019

July 9, 2019 // 1 Comment

If you’re still wondering how VAC amplifiers sounded without that magical synergy with Von Schweikert Audio loudspeakers at T.H.E. Show 2019, Acora Acoustics of Canada [...]

VAC, VSA Steal the Show | High End 2019

June 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Where did that instrument come from? The soundstage is huge and background dead quiet. That instrument just popped out of nowhere. Wow, that is spooky real. The timbre [...]

Must See Rooms, Day Two | T.H.E. SHOW 2019

June 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

LOS ANGELES (PTA) — This year’s T.H.E. SHOW 2019 is bigger, better, and already on track to be the most newsworthy yet. There are over 1,000,000 brands [...]

Von Schweikert and VAC | High End 2019

May 14, 2019 // 7 Comments

Decided to start my coverage with a big room, one of those all-out assaults (or close enough); this is what Munich offers after all. You see, visiting Munich evolved in [...]

Ultra-Fi, Michael Fremer, and The Audio Company | AXPONA 2019

April 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Occasionally, you get lucky. Like falling into step with vinyl evangelist Michael Fremer as he’s on his way to a do an exploration of some “interesting [...]

FLORIDA 2019: The Best of The Show, and Wrap-Up

March 23, 2019 // 2 Comments

To wrap things up, I think the major question of the show was answered. If the Florida Audio Expo was indeed an experiment, I think the results have given us a proof of [...]

Florida 2019: The Audio Company, VAC, Von Schweikert, Esoteric, Kronos, Critical Mass Systems, and The Michael Fremer Show

March 7, 2019 // 2 Comments

Yikes…I was six minutes late to the room. Keith from The Audio Company had mentioned a seminar late in the day on Saturday and it sounded interesting but I was too busy [...]