RMAF 2017: Rafe’s Preview
“It’s baaaaaaaaack…” This time bigger, and better than ever – at least that’s the hope. With the Denver Marriott Tech Centre Hotel fully [...]
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The List: Five of the best CD Players on the Planet
Welcome to something new we’re going to try here on PTA thanks to our friend Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I’m going to be curating a new [...]
RMAF 2017: A preview (of sorts)
Dear Santa, All I want for Xmas is my RMAF by Eric Franklin Shook I’m not the long winded bullshit artist you might have originally thought or hoped me to be. I lean [...]
PS Audio launches massive P20 Power Regenerator
There’s big, and then there’s BIG. While details are still coming, and there’s nothing yet on the PS Audio website, regarding specifications or pricing, [...]
McIntosh Labs announce new MAC7200 Receiver, MA7200 Integrated Amplifier
McIntosh Labs is keeping busy these days, apparently they haven’t heard a fleetingly popular wail that the high fidelity industry is doomed. Or at least that’s [...]
T.H.E. Show that wasn’t – Anaheim cancelled until 2018
One of the classic North American shows – and a Left Coast high point in the audio-show circuit has been unexpectedly cancelled for 2017. In a press release sent out to [...]
Review: CH Precision L1 Dual Monaural Line Preamplifier, and M1 Reference Power Amplifier
Complaints. I had many complaints with this system. Not from me, from my neighbours. You see, this was one of those systems that just begged to be played ridiculously loud. [...]
Review: Aurender A10 digital music server and DAC
by John Richardson I come from a do-it-yourself type family. To the best of my knowledge, this handy trait started out with both of my grandfathers and got handed down from [...]
LA Audio Show 2017 Video: The High End Zone, Perfect8 Technologies, Ypsilon Electronics
Through the Looking Glass. This is the Lewis Carroll sequel to the much more famous Alice in Wonderland. In it Alice again acquires entry to a magical world, this time [...]
Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: A Hifi Centre Interview
Igor Kivritsky wanted to make a difference with the Vancouver Audio Festival, and bring some of the expertise that the staff at the Hifi Centre had to the uninitiated of high [...]