I don’t listen to headphones like the Focal Stellia (website). Okay, let me back up—I listen to headphones all the time, just not for pleasure, but rather to check my [...]
Focal Utopia. “World’s Best Headphone.” This was the proclamation made by the man who gave me my first job doing headphone reviews, my mentor and predecessor at [...]
The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021 [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 [...]
The Best Headphones [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 [...]
Look down, think of a Danish speaker brand that starts with D, look up, think of a Danish speaker brand that isn’t Dynaudio. I’ve had a number of run-ins with Dali [...]
RALEIGH, NC — We’ve had a bit of a summer love affair brewing at PTA, and Focal/Naim have been at the center of it. Currently our man in so-cal Grover Neville, is [...]
CREW/SALISBURY/ST ETIENNE (PTA) — High-End Audio giants linking arms with luxury automakers to produce high-end sound system options for the luxury carriage market is [...]
“What are those light bulb things?” My roommate asked that as he bent over the Manley Labs Snapper Monoblock Amplifiers with his camera in hand. The downtown Los [...]
Focal is offering a $1,000 voucher towards the purchase of a Focal Arche Amplifier to anyone who owns a Focal Utopia, Stellia or Clear at any period of time before or during [...]
TAMPA, FL (PTA) — Upstream Audio was showing a masterfully configured digital and analog sourced system featuring components from Aesthetix, Focal, and Sonore. The [...]