Review: Merrill Audio Cara preamplifier
When was the last time your heart was sent racing by the opportunity to audition a preamplifier? Yup, line stages are not the most exciting components. They just sit there, allowing you to select your […]
When was the last time your heart was sent racing by the opportunity to audition a preamplifier? Yup, line stages are not the most exciting components. They just sit there, allowing you to select your […]
Audio shows can be a strange experience. No, I’m not talking about catching a frightening glimpse of yours truly, shakily down on all fours, getting a close-up photo of an XLR jack. I’m referring to […]
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 precise stereo imaging […]
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 than the average talented designer. […]
The inaugural Los Angeles Audio Show opened Friday with the wall-rattling whoosh of a troubled spaceship, a bus rocking with the latest mobile audio and a turntable levitating an inch or two off its base. […]
A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook I love trolling the physical format cat fights on Facebook. “Vinyl vs Digital – Bowl of Milk, Party of Two”: blah blah, yada yada. My favorite way to do […]
by John Richardson It should come as no surprise to anyone who frequents this e-mag that I ended up with yet another pair of speakers from John “Fritz” Heiler, founder of Fritz Speakers. Perhaps I […]
It was late in the day, and I returned again to the fabulous Merrill Audio room at T.H.E. Show 2016. Merrill Wettasinghe dropped the needle on a VPI Avenger Signature turntable, and I could watch […]
When I attend audio shows these days, I spend a lot of time riding elevators. This year at AXPONA in the Westin O’Hare in Chicago, where more than 400 exhibitors were scattered across eight floors, […]
It’s probably no secret that one of my favorite-of-all-time loudspeakers is a Reference 3a (an “MM de Capo”, for the record), so whenever I get the chance to check out what the brand is up to, […]
I’m sorry, did someone say “gold”? You don’t really see real gold very often — the actual metal — not in audio’s high-end, nor even in life generally. Certainly not big hunks of it. Maybe it’s […]
by John Richardson Enter Taranis…. Or as I like to call it, Taranisaurus Rex. Yep, like that big meat-eating dinosaur that wreaked havoc over the primordial plains. A real monster you say? Ha! Yes, there’s […]
by John Richardson We all know what they say about youth, right? Yep, that it’s wasted on the youth… Now well into middle age, I often like to think back to the trials, tribulations, and […]
My dad never liked gravy. “You don’t need it,” he’d say, whether we were having turkey, roast beef or meatloaf. He liked the taste “unadulterated.” I, on the other hand, used to put gravy on […]
by John Richardson Late last summer I was invited to a cookout at the home of an audio buddy of mine, Bill Magerman. I couldn’t refuse, as Bill is an excellent cook and a man […]
Koby Koranteng of Hi-Fi Logic operates his dealership in Maplewood, NJ, just outside of Newark. His demo rooms are routinely as interesting as they are excellent. Some of the brands he carries are familiar — […]
Everyone loves an odd couple. Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett. Ed Norton and Courtney Love. Brooke Shields and The King of Pop. Horns and Class D amps. At first blush, […]
I got in a day early. I could say that I do this because it’s a great way to catch up with friends and get some sneak peeks at stuff, but that’s not it. Or, […]
The Veritas monoblocks from Merrill Audio ($12,000/pair) are the latest audiophile darlings, and represent the current SOTA around Class D amplifier technology, sporting as they do the new Hypex Ncore 1200 modules. The modules have […]
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 […]
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