The Best DACs, Servers, Streamers, and Disc Spinners [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best DACs, streamers, servers and disc-spinners that we, the PTA team, have […]
The Best DACs, Servers, Streamers, and Disc Spinners [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 […]
WASHINGTON DC (PTA) — Tekton Design and McGary Audio bring a spirited life to a massive pair loudspeakers, Exogal turns water into wine, and Anticables ties it all together. The Story Tekton Design’s Eric Alexander […]
The McGary Audio and Salk Sound room was my first stop on the second day of the 2019 Capital Audiofest, and within seconds I realized I made a very wise decision. The combination of the […]
“Wow…how much do those weigh?” the show attendee asked, and I thought that was a rather odd first question. This was the McGary Audio and Salk Sound room at AXPONA 2019, and the relatively simple […]
McGary Audio shows us what thirty watts can do, Salk Signature Sound gives us the BeAT, Exogal supplies the tunes, and AntiCables once again binds together one of the best sounding systems of the show. […]
There are over 1,000,000 brands exhibiting here at Capital Audiofest … okay, okay, — I don’t know how many brands exactly, but it does seem like a lot this year. Which makes 2018’s event […]
The Story Ze’ev Schlik is the founder of the Pure Audio Project and he is really on to something. Ze’ev is countering the often negative or fruitless experiences that many audiophiles looking to enter the DIY segment of […]
The Story Unassuming, modest, not drawing too much attention to itself. That’s how I would describe this room upon my entry. For personal regards I hold, spying RAAL tweeters from across the room, my interests […]
It’s fairly common to run into one or two new companies each time I cover a major stereo event. What’s unusual, though, is to meet some fresh audio entrepreneurs on their first official day in […]
A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, proving again that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Axpona is to me an ensemble interpretation of […]
If you haven’t been keeping up, Emerald Physics is ahead of you. The company, currently under the leadership of Walter Liederman (whom many of you may know as Underwood Wally, from his dealership days — […]
Walter Liederman of Emerald Physics and Underwood HiFi (who were proudly sponsoring the PTA crew here at AXPONA) was on hand to expound the joys and glories of DSP-based audio reproduction and a new wonder-DAC company that he’s importing […]
2/8/2016 This is an update and follow-up to John Richardson’s review of the Exogal Comet DAC. Let me just say that I love this DAC. What struck me, in direct comparison to AURALiC Vega DAC […]
2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, everyone is gone, and WTF […]
by John Richardson It’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed a high-end digital to analog converter, or DAC. Back when I was frequently contributing at Stereomojo.com, I was sort of their go-to DAC guy. It was […]
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 […]
Walking into a demo room is like walking into someone else’s mind. Or, some piece of it. Some minds are ordered. Tidy. Clean and organized. Some are warm, like a heated towel. Comfortable, like an […]
I’ve known Walter Liederman of Underwood HiFi for many years — he was the guy that first sold me my first DAC, a Cullen-modified PS Audio DLIII. Shortly thereafter, he sold me a Peachtree integrated. […]
As is his wont, Steve Norber of PranaFidelity was once again cheerfully and seemingly effortlessly bringing great sound to the RMAF Atrium. This year, he elected to demonstrate his Fifty90 stand mount loudspeakers ($3,950). Preamplification […]
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