Ruth Palmer, Johann Sebastian Bach | The Vinyl Anachronist
Whenever you set up a new analog rig, what do you play first? Do you trot out one of your reference LPs, the type that really tells you what’s going on with a specific [...]
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Florida 2019: Mobile Fidelity, Primare, Dr. Feickert, Koestu, Cardas, SolidSteel
I love me some Bill Evans jazz so this was a really fun room. Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs is putting out a “One Step” album of his Portrait in Jazz and they had [...]
CAF 2018: DeVore, Doshi, J. Sikora; Sound to the nines
Devore Fidelity is still monkeying around, Doshi Audio goes hybrid, and J. Sikora sets a new Standard. The Story Doshi Audio has grown into its commercial and critical [...]
Wilson Audio Sasha DAW with dCS Bartók DAC | First Listen
Brian Berdan, owner of Audio Element in Pasadena California grew up in a household filled with music, his late father was a well known hi-fi dealer, so I can suspect that [...]
Review: Whisky and Listening – Vertere SG-1 turntable, SME-V tonearm, and Koetsu Onyx Platinum
Welcome to what I like to think of as a pinnacle of editorial writing in my small world, as it combines two of my favourite things to do: Have a glass of whisky, and kick [...]
The List: Five of the Best Phono Cartridges in The World
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 list [...]
The Far Corners: Intraoperative Brain Mapping for Audiophiles
By Modest I. Predlozheniye Ah, dear readers! How have you been? Old Modest has spent the last few months traveling extensively through North America and has been collecting [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Rafe’s wrap up on California
While this may have been the inaugural Los Angeles Audio Show, it had an air of familiarity about it that made for an easygoing experience. Everything seemed to run like a [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: MoFi masters the art of audiophile pressings
Glancing at the deep stacks of vinyl albums in the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab room at the Los Angeles Audio Show, I could only think of two things: When do these guys go on [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Natural Sound tweaks already-stunning loudspeakers
It was just a year ago at T.H.E. Show in Newport that I stumbled across Natural Sound EU. I was squeezing through a crowded hallway when I saw a sign with a name I was [...]
