Living Voice R25A, a Small Miracle | High End 2019
Everyone’s looking for giant killers in this hobby. I’ve always maintained that they don’t exist, that elusive component that gets the job done for an [...]
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Volti Audio, Raven Audio | Lone Star Audio Fest 2019
DALLAS (PTA) — Volti Audio is paired this year with Raven Audio electronics, and for the first time I’ve really had the chance to sit down with Volti Audio founder [...]
Wolf Audio Systems, Audience Cable, LTA, Ayre, Sadurni Acoustics, David Berning | AXPONA 2019
CHICAGO (PTA) — The Wolf Audio Systems room gets my vote for exhibiting the sexiest horn system at the show. Including and beyond the looks of the Sadurni Acoustics [...]
FLORIDA 2019: Play It Again Audio, Resolution Acoustics, Little boy blue come blow your horn
Play It Again Audio was showing a system curated from their large inventory of pre-owned high-end audio equipment. Resolution Acoustics was showing us how a well assembled [...]
Capital Audiofest 2017: Gary Gill’s magic horn loudspeakers
Back in 2016, Gary Gill of Capital Audiofest fame demonstrated his latest DIY creation: A Voxativ-based horn speaker, constructed of gelcoat fiberglass and birch 10-ply. At [...]
High End 2017: The Munich Experience, and Rafe’s best of the Show
I could see his lips moving but I couldn’t hear a word the guy next to me was saying. We were in the Silbatone room at the MOC for High End in Munich, and I had gone [...]
High End 2017: Blumenhofer, MasterSound, Cammino and the final horn room
This is it. This is my last horn-loaded loudspeaker room writeup from High End 2017 at the MOC in Munich. Some of you will lament this, other rejoice, but to both camps I say [...]
High End 2017: TuneAudio, Trafomatic, Rockna, and Skogrand Cables stock the candy store
I felt like I was in candy store. Everything looked colourful, mouthwatering, and sugary… the sound was also drawing me into the sweet spot for an extended listening [...]
High End 2017: The horns of Azzolina Audio, Thomas Mayer amplification, Vinylista turntables
Aubergine? That was the closest colour match I could think of to describe the large, tasty Sphera horns that Azzoline Audio – the creation of Frenchman Chuck [...]
High End 2017: New totaldac d150 loudspeaker system
I’m an unabashed fan of Vincent Brient’s totaldac DAC/Streamer designs. The French electronics engineer, and wunderkind behind the bespoke, discrete R2R ladder [...]
