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Buyers Guide

The Best Integrated Amplifiers | Buyers Guide 2023

December 2, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Integrated Amplifiers | Buyers Guide 2023

Welcome to the Best Integrated Amplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2023. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product listed […]

Components

Lab12 Integre4 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW

June 17, 2022 Marc Phillips 6

There’s an important foreword to my love story with the Lab12 Integre4 integrated amplifier. A few years ago, shortly after I joined the PTA team and started work on my first issue of The Occasional […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Integrated Amplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 3, 2022 Editorial Staff 6

Welcome to the Best Integrated Amplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Loudspeakers

Harbeth C7ES-3 XD Loudspeakers | REVIEW

March 6, 2022 Marc Phillips 1

Co-hosting all these Brit-fi podcasts with Brian Hunter on The Occasional Podcast has certainly whetted my appetite for BBC monitors. Lately we’ve been fixating primarily on the LS3/5a, but I can’t tell you how excited […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Integrated Amplifiers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 27, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

Welcome to the Best Integrated Amplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Integrated Amplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2021

May 16, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

The Best Integrated Amplifiers [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best integrated amplifiers that we, the PTA team, have heard.] PS Audio Sprout100 ($699 USD) We […]

Loudspeakers

Acora Acoustics SRB Loudspeakers and SRS Stands | REVIEW

March 7, 2021 Marc Phillips 3

What’s wrong with hitting the ground running? I bring this up because I’ve been spending the last couple of months with the Acora Acoustics SRB monitors (website), the little two-ways with the granite enclosures, and […]

Components

LFD NCSE Mk. 3 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW

February 19, 2021 Marc Phillips 2

The LFD NCSE Mk. 3 integrated amplifier (website) has no remote control. Nor does it have XLR inputs or outputs, a home theater bypass switch, 12V trigger operation, a built-in DAC, a wide range of […]

Loudspeakers

Marten Oscar Duo Loudspeakers | REVIEW

February 7, 2021 Marc Phillips 3

  The first time I heard the Marten Oscar Duo (website), right out of the box, one word came to mind. That word was fast. Dave McNair, currently reviewing the much larger Marten Oscar Trio, […]

Loudspeakers

Volti Audio Razz Loudspeakers, Part One | REVIEW

February 5, 2021 Marc Phillips 10

A funny thing happened on the way to finding the perfect 2-way bookshelf monitor. When I first had the opportunity to review the new Volti Audio Razz (announcement, website), I imagined this 3-way floorstanding horn […]

Analog

Palmer 2.5i Turntable and Audio Origami PU7 Tonearm | REVIEW

May 17, 2020 Marc Phillips 4

This review of the Palmer 2.5i turntable and the Audio Origami PU7 tonearm has been decades in the making. If you’ve been following the Vinyl Anachronist columns on Perfect Sound Forever over the last 22 […]

THE Show 2019

A Reunion with Gene Rubin | T.H.E. Show 2019

June 23, 2019 Marc Phillips Comments Off on A Reunion with Gene Rubin | T.H.E. Show 2019

If you’ve been reading my stuff for a while, especially the original Vinyl Anachronist column for Perfect Sound Forever, you probably know of my fondness for Gene Rubin of Gene Rubin Audio in Ventura, California. […]

CAF 2018

CAF 2018: Harbeth, Rogers Fidelity, Acoustic Signature and the Experiment

November 25, 2018 Marc Phillips 2

You may have already read about the great mystery in Room 323 at the Capital Audiofest from Eric Franklin Shook of PTA and David Blumenstein from Dagogo. These two audio scribes conducted a sonic experiment of […]

RMAF 2018

RMAF 2018: Fidelis Music Systems, Exposure, Acoustic Signature and Those Amazing Stenheim Monitors

November 17, 2018 Marc Phillips 1

I’ve known the folks at Fidelis Music Systems in Nashua, New Hampshire for many years. Not only were they one of my top dealers when I was a distributor but they also distribute, in turn, […]

LAAS 2017

LA Audio Show 2017: Gene Rubin, Harbeth 30.1 make music, magic

July 15, 2017 John Stancavage 2

Attending the three biggest U.S. high-end shows last year, I got to hear a lot of speakers. Many were new, exotic, state-of-the-art designs, driven by megabuck equipment. A fair number of those produced impressive sound. Yet, […]

LAAS 2017

LA Audio Show 2017: Gene Rubin Audio impresses with LFD, Harbeth, Acoustic Signature, Aurender, CanEver.

June 10, 2017 Rafe Arnott 3

I don’t know about you, but I really appreciate hand built high-fidelity components. And when it comes to integrated amplifiers, few are more bespoke than what British amplifier manufacturer LFD are offering. While many of […]

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