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LA Audio Show 2017: Inaugural event targets newcomers as well as hard-core hobbyists

June 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

If organizers of the Los Angeles Audio Show battled any jitters while planning their brand-new event in a very crowded year, those fears likely have eased in recent weeks. [...]

“Affordable high-end” — is that like “jumbo shrimp”?

March 4, 2017 // 11 Comments

How many Simolians do you have to part with these days to get good sound? I mean, really? Is it even possible, or just a frustrating pipe dream? That seems to have been Topic [...]

Newport 2016: Magnepan isn’t afraid of the dark

June 25, 2016 // 2 Comments

Many audio system demos take place in dimly-lit rooms. I think sales reps feel this adds some mystique to the gear being auditioned, and maybe allows the listener to better [...]

AXPONA 2016: exaSound finds synergy with Magnepan

May 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

This room got me going right out of the gate. The system used one of my all-time favorite speakers, the Magnepan 1.7s which I have lived with and loved for many years, [...]

Music Matters 11: Audio Research, Magnepan , HRS, AMG

March 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Mohammed Samji Definitive Audio in Seattle, WA. The night before Music Matters, I had a chance to spend a little extra time in Room 3. As I entered the dim room, two [...]

High End 2015: PS Audio, Magnepan, Roon

May 17, 2015 // 1 Comment

While not exactly new, PS Audio was showing off their pride-and-joy, the new Bascom King collaboration, the BHK Signature 250 Stereo amplifier ($7,499 US). The amp is a tube [...]

CES 2015: A long overdue wrap up

March 13, 2015 // 1 Comment

Before, after and during. That’s when I heave out the long sigh. An audio show — any audio show — wrings that out of me. But this year, CES was … [...]

Newport 2014: Magnepan Dots a Seven with the new MG

June 23, 2014 // 4 Comments

I’m going to come right out and say that I like Magnepan‘s Wendell Diller more than a little. He’s a damn fine fellow, opinionated as all hell, and pretty [...]

Magnepan and Tekton meet Pass Labs, Odyssey, Job, Merrill, Red Wine Audio, First Watt and Vitus Audio

November 27, 2013 // 30 Comments

Amplifier Madness Filed Under: Why The Hell Not. Wild hair? Yeah, maybe. Two over-achieving and “moderately priced” transducers fell into my Magical Hand of [...]

CAF 2013: LKV Research

August 3, 2013 // 0 Comments

Bill Hutchins of LKV Research was showing off his new baby, the Phono 2-SB ($2,500). This Swiss Army knife phonostage has pretty much everything you could want, including [...]