Capital Audiofest 2017: Merrill Audio and Distinctive Stereo
You never know what Merrill Wettasinge of Merrill Audio is going to come up with next. One thing’s for sure, he always seems to pull out the big guns. Heck, a few shows [...]
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LA Audio Show 2017: Wrap-Up and John Stancavage’s Best of Show
Audio shows can be a strange experience. No, I’m not talking about catching a frightening glimpse of yours truly, shakily down on all fours, getting a close-up photo of an [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: German Physiks, Merrill, VPI create aural hologram
The high-end seems to have a variety of holy grails. One of them is building a speaker that radiates in more than one direction to widen the sweet spot, but still delivers [...]
AXPONA 2017: Merrill Audio’s Christine preamp is ultra quiet, ultra cool
Merrill Wettasinghe, owner of Merrill Audio Advanced Technology Labs, is one of those guys in the high-end who seems able to coax a bit more performance out of his components [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Floating vinyl, Sgt. Pepper, new products stand out on Day 1
The inaugural Los Angeles Audio Show opened Friday with the wall-rattling whoosh of a troubled spaceship, a bus rocking with the latest mobile audio and a turntable [...]
Newport 2016: Merrill Audio, German Physiks, VPI delivers!
It was late in the day, and I returned again to the fabulous Merrill Audio room at T.H.E. Show 2016. Merrill Wettasinghe dropped the needle on a VPI Avenger Signature [...]
RMAF 2015: Merging Technologies and German Physiks gets my attention with digital
It’s not too often that I will raise an unkempt eyebrow over a digital rig. But as I stumbled about The Tower at RMAF (where I was sentenced like Quasimodo by Scot [...]
RMAF 2014 Roundup, Part 6: More Small Rooms with Medium-Sized and Smaller Speakers
By Darryl Lindberg German Physiks, Ayre The German Physiks Unlimited Mk.IIs (circa $10K), a true omnidirectional speaker, were ensconced in room 1025 and producing very nice [...]
High End 2014: Esoteric goes Grandioso with German Physiks
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis Last year, Esoteric went on an all out assault of what is possible in the digital domain by introducing the Grandioso D1 monoblock DACs and P1 [...]
RMAF12: German Physiks and Vitus Audio
There are a couple of vendors that are doing that 360° sound-field thing. MBL is probably the highest profile, but not necessarily the best nor the most costly. For the [...]
