high fidelity

LA Audio Show 2017 Video: The High End Zone, Perfect8 Technologies, Ypsilon Electronics

July 22, 2017

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 by climbing through a mirror. The title instantly sprang to mind after [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: A Hifi Centre Interview

July 9, 2017

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 fidelity. The goal was to make an audio show accessible to the average [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: Focal Stella Utopia with Naim Statement

June 27, 2017

They were really big, really red, and I couldn’t tip them over no matter how hard I tried. They were the Focal Stella Utopia loudspeakers, and they weigh 365lbs a piece, so that explains why they wouldn’t budge. Also, if you had been [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: The gear to lend an ear to really hear

June 22, 2017

With the inaugural Vancouver Audio Festival hosted by HiFi Centre happening this weekend, I thought I’d get the word out on what Igor Kivritsky, and his good people were curating in the suites of listening rooms lined up for Saturday, and [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: What’s coming up

June 19, 2017

Vancouver’s HiFi Centre is throwing open it’s doors this coming weekend (June 24, 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 433 Carrall Street, Vancouver) to help fill the gap left by the departure of the Chester Group, and it’s [...]

High End 2017: A High-Fidelity Photo Essay

June 17, 2017

The shock and awe of High End at Munich to someone who has not attended previously is palpable. This is the mother of all shows in my books, because to me it stands heads, and shoulders above so many others due to the inherent cultural, [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Austin Hifi spreads the joy with Crimson, Tocaro, Resolution Audio

June 16, 2017

Some rooms at audio shows are like old friends that you haven’t seen for a while. The Austin Hifi room at the Los Angeles Audio Show was like that. They have a habit of putting together similar systems (musical, simple, dynamic) at the shows [...]

Munich 2017: Nagra, Kronos, and Wilson make listeners see red

June 12, 2017

We’ve all heard the phrase, pictured it in our minds, or seen a commercial based on it. Like waving a red flag at a bull. That’s what the Nagra room in the 4.2 Atrium level of High End at Munich felt like when I walked into it. The [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: The Kids Are Alright?

June 4, 2017

In some ways the gentleman could be described as the typical North American audiophile. In others, he was most certainly not. He was white, looked to be in his 60s, was well-spoken, and nicely kitted-out in a Hawaiian shirt. He had started [...]

High End 2017: The tea ceremony of recorded playback with Kondo of Japan

May 31, 2017

High End at Munich in the MOC is an A-List affair with thousands of people swarming everywhere constantly, and millions of dollars in ne plus ultra gear oozing cabling as thick as my thigh out of every nook, and cranny for the masses to ogle, [...]