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Capital Audiofest 2017: VPI, Luminous Audio, Pure Audio Project; and The Future of Audiophilia

February 14, 2018 // 3 Comments

The Stories I’m not too worried about how late this show report is because Capital Audiofest feels just like yesterday’s breakfast. Along with the feeling that collective [...]

Capital Audiofest 2017: The Sunday Giveaways

November 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sponsors for the Capital Audiofest Sunday Giveaways: VPI Industries MarkAudio-SOTA PS Audio Luminous Audio Tenacious Sound Martin Logan Linear Tube Audio Teac US SoundLabs [...]

RMAF 2016: Dynamic Sound Associates, Spendor and VPI

November 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

By Darryl Lindberg In the Dynamic Sound Associates (DSA) room, the ebullient David Sckolnick presided over a fine sounding system that featured DSA’s solid state [...]

Capital Audiofest 2016: Roundup and Best in Show

August 23, 2016 // 3 Comments

I’ve been to a lot of audio shows, it’s true. Doesn’t make me an expert, however — there are a few decades of these things that I simply don’t [...]

Review: Luminous Audio Arion and ModWright PH150 Phono Preamplifiers

December 12, 2015 // 2 Comments

By cheerfully weird happenstance, I received two world-class phono preamplifiers, pretty much right on top of each other. The first to arrive was the Arion phonostage [...]

What’s Next/Coming Soon

November 18, 2015 // 2 Comments

Here we are, mid-November. It’s a glorious time to be alive. I say that with full acknowledgement of the “challenges”, which is a nice euphemism for [...]

CAF 2015: Fern/Roby and Bettinger Audio Design get heavy

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

One of the most exciting — and by “exciting”, I mean “most excitedly talked about” — was the room that Fern & Roby shared with [...]

CAF 2014: Luminous Audio steps on the Gas, swings a big Beam

August 13, 2014 // 3 Comments

Tim Stinson of Luminous Audio and Mike Bettinger of GAS Audio have teamed up to create a new phono preamplifier, the Arion, which will be sold under the Luminous Audio brand. [...]

Micro (-brewed) Capital Audiofest

February 23, 2013 // 0 Comments

I’m heading out to Gary Gill’s place in Baltimore today for a day of audio and microbrews. Micro-CAF is here! Gary’s got a bunch of locals swinging by with [...]

Mini Review: Luminous Audio Axiom II “Walker Mod”

December 30, 2012 // 5 Comments

Sometimes, I think I’m losing my mind. Other times, I know it’s gone and I just sit around fondly recalling all the good times we had together. Case in point [...]