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Review: Whisky and Listening – Vertere SG-1 turntable, SME-V tonearm, and Koetsu Onyx Platinum

March 18, 2018 // 2 Comments

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

December 31, 2017 // 8 Comments

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

October 31, 2017 // 9 Comments

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

August 4, 2017 // 1 Comment

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

July 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

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

June 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

AXPONA 2017: Doshi takes a balanced view of tubes

May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

I first met Nick Doshi in 2013 at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest where he was showing a prototype of his v3.0 monoblocks, a push-pull design that used four KT-150 tubes to [...]

Montreal Audio Fest Video: Tidal loudspeakers with Karan Acoustics, Goldmund and Thales from Wynn Audio

April 7, 2017 // 4 Comments

Wynn Wong is a very unassuming guy, who has a big smile, quiet charm, and an infectious smile that instantly puts people at ease. Every time I checked out his room at the [...]

Montreal Audio Fest: Day Two, the wall

March 26, 2017 // 3 Comments

I had started to hit it. The wall. The mental, and physical barrier you can find yourself pushing against (or in my case leaning against), at Saturday around 1 a.m. when [...]

Suspended turntable battle: Oracle Paris MK V takes on Linn Sondek LP12

September 16, 2016 // 2 Comments

Old school vs. new school The suspended-turntable wars of 2016 Orgasm Addict: basically a dirty limerick wrapped in a catchy punk-rock riff released by the Buzzcocks in the [...]