Florida 2023
Falcon Acoustics M10 and MoFi | FLAX 2023
I had at least two people tell me, just prior to the 2023 Florida Audio Expo, that MoFi Distribution‘s Jonathan Derda want me to stop by his room because he had a two-way speaker he […]
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Loudspeakers
Qln Signature Monitors | REVIEW
Spoiler alert: this isn’t going to be as much of a dry, objective review of the Qln Signature loudspeakers as a feverish chronicle of an all-too-brief romance. If that seems too biased for a high-end […]
Loudspeakers
GoldenEar BRX Loudspeakers | REVIEW
The GoldenEar BRX loudspeakers, much to my chagrin, are chameleonic. That made me wonder whether or not transducers should be chameleonic. And then I wondered if chameleonic was a real word, so I looked it […]
Awards
Best Value of the Year Award | 2021
Deciding the Best Value of the Year Award for 2021 As we finish out our year-end award season, I noticed that many of the same products that were considered for Product of the Year for […]
Loudspeakers
Acora Acoustics SRS-G Speaker Stands | REVIEW
The Acora Acoustics SRS-G speaker stands, which are made from solid blocks of granite and retail for $5,000 per pair, are designed for two groups of people. The first group consists of owners of the […]
Components
Balanced Audio Technology VK-3500 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW
It’s been twelve or thirteen years since I’ve had Balanced Audio Technology in for review. That previous time, the only real seat time I’ve had with BAT, was with a pair of all-tube separates that […]
Loudspeakers
MC Audiotech Forty-10 Loudspeakers | REVIEW
It’s been a while since my last installment of The Smoking Jacket, thanks in general to the pandemic, but I wanted to remind everyone that one of my favorite parts about smoking cigars is the […]
Components
Allnic Audio T-2000 30th Anniversary Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW
You know how I used to start off each of my integrated amplifier reviews with an opening paragraph on why I love integrated amplifiers? Yes, I made a promise not to do that ever again, […]
Components
Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri S2-SC and Model 125 | REVIEW
The Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri S2-SC preamplifier and Model 125 amplifier are soooooo tiny. How tiny are they? When the boxes arrived at my front door, I said “This can’t be right. These boxes […]
Loudspeakers
TotalDAC d100 Loudspeakers | REVIEW
In all my years of being an audiophile, of being a high-end audio importer and distributor, of being an audio reviewer, I had never seen a pair of loudspeakers get split up in a shipment […]
Loudspeakers
Falcon Acoustics LS3/5a MoFi Edition Loudspeakers | REVIEW
Of all the audio gear I came close to buying over the last forty years, I probably got closer to a pair of LS3/5as than anything else. I’m reminded of that constantly in the presence […]