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Notable Audio Products, Joseph Audio, Doshi Audio, J. Sikora, Cardas Audio | RMAF 2019

September 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

Notable Audio Products is the distribution side of Jeff Fox’s Command Performance AV dealership in Falls Church VA, and Jeff had sort of a late ’90s New York [...]

Friday’s Highlights | RMAF 2019

September 7, 2019 // 4 Comments

Friday at the 2019 RMAF was one of those long, busy and productive days where at the end of it you sit back and think wow, I met a lot of interesting people. Not just people, [...]

Elite AV Distribution, Furutech, Kuzma, HRT, Plinius, Manley Labs | T.H.E. SHOW 2019

July 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

LOS ANGELES (PTA) — In the past, I’ve always found Furutech audio show exhibits to be some of the most stunning to look at, but in my experience they’ve never [...]

Must See Rooms, Day Two | T.H.E. SHOW 2019

June 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

LOS ANGELES (PTA) — This year’s T.H.E. SHOW 2019 is bigger, better, and already on track to be the most newsworthy yet. There are over 1,000,000 brands [...]

Living Voice R25A, a Small Miracle | High End 2019

May 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

CAF 2018: DeVore, Doshi, J. Sikora; Sound to the nines

November 19, 2018 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

CAF 2018: Classic Audio Loudspeakers, Atma-Sphere, Tri-Planar, Purist Audio Designs

November 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

Classic Audio Loudspeakers shows us Field Coils and Reel-to-Reel tape, Atma-Sphere brings the heat, Tri-Planar lends a strong arm, and Purist Audio Design takes us to Neptune [...]

RMAF 2018: Purist Audio, Classic Audio Loudspeakers, and Atma-Sphere

November 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

I caught up to Purist Audio Design‘s Jim Aud at RMAF, where the music flowed like water and the dynamics made the angels weep. This was a great room. Of course, this [...]

RMAF 2018: New Soundsmith ES

November 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

When I was young, I remember having to recite a poem that had a couple of lines that went something like this: I wish that I could be A man like he, The only man in the world [...]

It Must Be Sunday, For I’m Hearing Mass

September 21, 2018 // 3 Comments

By Gautam Raja For a while, I was one of those (arguably) necessary but infuriating elements of high-end audio: the “informed” consumer. You know, the guys who read forum [...]