RMAF 2017: The Audio Alternative goes deep with Vandersteen, VTL, HRS, Brinkmann, and AudioQuest
“Bass. How low can you go?” Familiar lyrics for me as I was a rabid Public Enemy fan in the late ’80s, and most of the early ’90s. The base [...]
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Road Trip: Escape to Seattle for hifi adventure
Sometimes getting out of town can be difficult. Just ask Snake Plissken, the antihero of John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic Escape from New York. Plissken (played by [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: German Physiks, Merrill, VPI create aural hologram
The high-end seems to have a variety of holy grails. One of them is building a speaker that radiates in more than one direction to widen the sweet spot, but still delivers [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Vandersteen, Audio Research create enchanting sound
Whether they admit it or not, all audiophiles have biases. Some value tight, powerful bass above all else, for example, while others crave analog warmth and tube [...]
AXPONA 2017: Merrill Audio’s Christine preamp is ultra quiet, ultra cool
Merrill Wettasinghe, owner of Merrill Audio Advanced Technology Labs, is one of those guys in the high-end who seems able to coax a bit more performance out of his components [...]
High End 2017: Ypsilon sings with Wilson Benesch
Ypsilon Electronics had yet another great room in this year’s show, this time with Wilson Benesch latest speaker design, the Resolution ‘P1’ Silverstone. The system [...]
TAVES 2016: Titanic sound from VPI and KEF
By Richard H. Mak If you are a follower of Mat Weisfeld’s (President of VPI Industries) Facebook page, you will know that the gloves are off with this table! Harry [...]
$500,000 Tidal Audio system thunders to life courtesy of Element Acoustics, Wynn Audio
The small roast-beef sandwich and ice coffee were delicious. I mean really, really good. It was a beautiful afternoon with the sun shining, but it wasn’t hot, and there [...]
Newport 2016: VTL, Wilson score another knockout
If VTL’s megawatt Siegfried amplifier were a boxer, it would be a heavyweight champ who was still striking fear into rivals many years after its first fight. Indeed, a [...]
High End 2016: Magico is getting there, slowly
Last year the at the time under development Magico S7 left me perplexed on what they were or were not capable of doing, as at least under show conditions there was clearly a [...]