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Buyers Guide

The Best Subwoofers and Hi-Fi Accessories | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 5, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Subwoofers and Hi-Fi Accessories | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Hi-Fi Accessories section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Floorstanding Loudspeakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 3, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Floorstanding Loudspeakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Floorstanding Speakers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 3, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Bookshelf Speakers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]

Announcements

The Best of Buyers Guide 2022

December 4, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

The Best of Buyers Guide [Editor’s Note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide. This year we’ve added more entries to the Buyers Guide, which means we had to review more products than last year. […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Floorstanding Speakers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 28, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

Welcome to the Best Floorstanding Speakers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 28, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

Welcome to the Best Bookshelf Speakers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Hi-Fi Accessories | Buyers Guide 2022

November 26, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

Welcome to the Best Hi-Fi Accessories section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]

Capital Audiofest 2021

Best of Show and Wrap-Up | CAF 2021

November 19, 2021 Eric Franklin Shook 1

ROCKVILLE, MD (PTA) — Glad to be back at Capital Audio Fest for 2021. Arriving on Thursday it was a bit emotional for me, seeing all the exhibitors finishing the final bits of system setup […]

Capital Audiofest 2021

Acora Acoustics, Audio Research, Transrotor, Aurender, Esoteric, Cardas, Anne Bisson, and Dave McNair | CAF 2021

November 16, 2021 Dave McNair 3

This was my second visit ever to Capital Audio Fest, my first being in 2019 in the “Before Times.” The 2021 show, if not quite as large as the previous one, was very well attended, […]

Loudspeakers

Acora Acoustics SRS-G Speaker Stands | REVIEW

October 1, 2021 Marc Phillips Comments Off on 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 […]

Audio-Life

Acora Acoustics, The Audio Company and Sweet Melissa Records | On The Road

September 17, 2021 Dave McNair 1

[Editor’s Note: While brainstorming how to best tell the story of our road trip to The Audio Company, Dave and I (Eric Franklin Shook) considered drilling down into the specific sound of each room, but instead […]

Loudspeakers

Acora Acoustics SRB Loudspeakers and SRS Stands | REVIEW

March 7, 2021 Marc Phillips 3

What’s wrong with hitting the ground running? I bring this up because I’ve been spending the last couple of months with the Acora Acoustics SRB monitors (website), the little two-ways with the granite enclosures, and […]

Loudspeakers

Acora Acoustics SRC-2 Loudspeakers | REVIEW

November 14, 2020 Dave McNair 16

After living with Acora Acoustics SRC-2 loudspeakers in my listening room, I consider these granite speakers to be the newest member of a very small group of speaker systems that are the absolute state of […]

Florida 2020

Acora Acoustics and the Art of Making People Cry at Audio Shows | FLAX 2020

February 14, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Acora Acoustics and the Art of Making People Cry at Audio Shows | FLAX 2020

Acora Acoustics, maker of fantastic granite speakers from Canada, is certainly a rising star in the world of high-end audio. I’ve visited their room at three different shows, and each time I’m more impressed. At […]

RMAF 2019

Acora Acoustics, Esoteric, Aurender, Cardas | RMAF 2019

September 18, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 1

DENVER (PTA) — At the beginning of the summer Marc Phillips and myself attended T.H.E. SHOW 2019 in Long Beach, California. While there we both independently discovered Acora Acoustics, and during a mid-day lunch meeting […]

THE Show 2019

Acora Acoustics, VAC, Cardas, Charisma, Codia | T.H.E. Show 2019

July 9, 2019 Marc Phillips 1

If you’re still wondering how VAC amplifiers sounded without that magical synergy with Von Schweikert Audio loudspeakers at T.H.E. Show 2019, Acora Acoustics of Canada made quite an impression with their granite SRC-2 loudspeakers. (Price […]

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