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Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum S2 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW

January 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

Four hundred watts per channel. The Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum S2 (website) has four hundred watts per channel. In over forty years of being an audiophile, including [...]

The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide 2021

December 4, 2020 // 11 Comments

The Best Tonearms [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 Guide [...]

HANA Umami Red – Sales Begin Today

September 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

The announcement of a new flagship Hana cartridge has most of us at Part-Time Audiophile in a frenzy. We all want to review the new $3950 Hana Umami Red, and I think [...]

Goldring Ethos Phono Cartridge | REVIEW

September 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

I wasn’t supposed to review the Goldring Ethos phono cartridge. It merely hitched a ride with the Thorens TD-1601 turntable and arm combo that I have in for review. Anthony [...]

Fern and Roby Maverick Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

August 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

I originally intended to include this review of the Fern and Roby Maverick phono preamplifier as part of my testing of their Montrose turntable and tonearm. Things changed [...]

HANA Umami Red Moving Coil Cartridge

August 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

OAKLAND, CA (PTA) — Little gets us more electrified than new phono cartridges from Musical Surroundings. Today HANA made an official announcement of their newest Umami-Red [...]

Fern & Roby Montrose Turntable and Tonearm | REVIEW

July 10, 2020 // 2 Comments

A few months ago, Dave and Carol Clark of Positive Feedback made a social media post where they told friends in the industry they were looking for a new turntable and asked [...]

Jeff Rowland Design Group Conductor Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

June 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Having a Jeff Rowland Design Group product in my reference system reminds me, in a roundabout way, of one of the greatest hi-fi systems I’ve heard. This happened [...]

Trenner and Friedl Osiris Loudspeakers | REVIEW

June 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

This is the final entry borne from that magical In Living Stereo room at last year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. I started with the precious, jewel-like Mactone MH-120 power [...]

Hana ML Phono Cartridge | REVIEW

May 31, 2020 // 3 Comments

My first experience with Hana cartridges of Japan came at the 2016 Newport Show when I had organized my Down Under Audio exhibit rooms for Colleen Cardas Imports. My idea was [...]