Vancouver 2015: Mark Levinson and Martin Logan
by Rafe Arnott You ever seen a big rock ‘n roll show from the front row? How about closer than that? I have. I’ve been a newspaper photographer (among other jobs [...]
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High End 2015: Living Voice and Kondo
At High End this year, I got to meet one of my heroes, Kevin Scott of Living Voice. I skipped the show-opening press conference (which I was pretty sure would be in German), [...]
AXPONA 2015: BorderPatrol, Take Two
Josh already spilled his enthusiasm all over the floor about the big room featuring Volti Audio‘s speakers. Nobody should be surprised by this. I suspect that [...]
Audio, an Auto Show, and The Cannonball Run
According to Google Maps, the distance between Manhattan and Redondo Beach is about 2,800 miles. Following the respective speed limits and abstracting away from pesky things [...]
CES 2015: DeVore Fidelity, a new Gibbon, and a ride with The Driver
It was 9 p.m. Time to go and The Driver was ready. A quick shuffling. Half of us were pointed one way, the others went to the other car. DeVore had been rather deliberately [...]
CES 2015: HiFiMAN takes things to 1000 and blows my doors clean off
I might have been hallucinating. It’s possible. But I had to stop, bat country or no. There was just no way I was going to pass up on this chance. If you thought I [...]
RMAF 2014: Goodbye, Rocky Mountain High
Or, an Introvert Goes to Denver I’ve attended a few audio shows in the last 5 years. Okay, that’s not true. I’ve attended a lot of shows in the last 5 [...]
RMAF 2014: PS Audio, very natural
PS Audio has been on something of a roll this year. Abandoning their traditional spot as a manufacturer of pretty solid HiFi gear, they made a credible assault on the Hubba [...]
RMAF 2014: Wilson Audio’s Bewitching Sabrina
By John Stancavage “I’ve probably told you too much already,” said Wilson Audio Specialties marketing director John Giolas, 30 minutes after he let me sneak into the [...]
New York 2014: Woo Audio creates audio oasis, hints at portable
My buddy Michael Liang of Woo Audio ushered me right over to the lucite case. “See?” he said. “We’re going portable.” In the case was a blank, a [...]
