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 input (6922)/mosfet output “hybrid” design, good […]
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 … different. Whinging For me, […]
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 much a walking encyclopedia about the […]
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 Loudspeakers — the Magnepan 3.7s and the Tekton Designs SEAS Pendragon […]
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 both balanced (40/50/59dB) and unbalanced inputs (34/44/53dB). […]
Got a note today from Wendell Diller of Magnepan. Guess what? Magnepan is launching a new loudspeaker at Newport! If you’re going to be in town for the big to-do, be sure to swing by […]
Magnepan really likes to do something different at audio shows, and CES was no different. Here, Wendell Diller was running a bass demo — namely, how Magnepan can do bass.
It doesn’t always pay to be different. Well, I mean sometimes it does, but when you’re on to something that works, major course corrections seem foolish. Which is why the New MMG from Magnepan is […]
In the spirit of full disclosure, I have to admit that I am a not only a Magnepan fan, but an owner. I’m not going to apologize for it, either, but I will admit freely, […]
My demo Magnepan Mini System showed up on Friday of last week. I got them set up and running, but couldn’t spend much time with them. So, after a grueling weekend filled with honey-do’s, I […]
Guess it was just a matter of time … and now, the secret is out. Yes, Magnepan has rev’d the 20.1 speaker, bringing it all the glorious goodness that was developed in the 1.7 and […]
I’ve been meaning to get down to The Gifted Listener in Centreville for about two months now — and today was the day. The target? The new Magnepan Mini System. Tom Unger, proprietor, took delivery […]
Ok, ordered some Dueland resistors (two 2R 10w, wound together, per speaker) — or rather, re-ordered some Duelands. The problem? The leads were too short to simply insert them into the tweeter attenuation port. D’oh! […]
Ordered in late April, I took delivery of my new Magnepan 3.7s last night. Tom Unger, of The Gifted Listener out in Centreville, VA very kindly drove them up here, braving DC traffic, country roads, […]
Updates This is definitely a hobby that would be well-served by a magically replenishing pot of gold. Either that, or access to piles and piles of cash. Sadly, I have neither. Which is vexing. I […]
Well, it looks like the news isn’t all bad with Lion. I’ve upgraded my server (for fun and spite) and sure enough, everything is working fine. Drivers will be out for Weiss and Sonos (if […]
Well, it looks like I failed to make the cut in the last 3.7 production run. Bummer. According to Magnepan, the next run should start up in about 3 weeks, and my slot will be […]
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. When the 1.7 was released last year, the order queue filled much faster than Magnepan had anticipated and very quickly, the backlog stretched 4+ months. I actually ended up […]
Well, here I am. Only between 4 and 438 weeks to go before my Magnepan 3.7 speakers are ready and shipped. Which means I’ve had (and will still have) plenty of time to start sweating […]
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