Review: HiFiMan Susvara headphones, assault on the state of the art
This is not for the faint of heart, or wallet. If you think headphones have reached overwhelmingly high prices spare your time and don’t read this review. You have been [...]
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Metaxas Ikarus integrated amplifier review
This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional last fall in it’s inaugural edition. We’ll be rolling out [...]
Introducing The Occasional Magazine
Welcome to the evolution. The Occasional Part-Time Audiophile is a new thing. Another experiment. And while it may be new to us, it’s not exactly new. The history of our [...]
Dr’s Orders: Study anatomy (hands on with the Metaxas Marquis Memento Mori headphone amp)
So I get an email from Kostas Metaxas of Metaxas and Sins in which I am asked if I would care to listen to the new Marquis Memento Mori headphone amplifier (lets call it the [...]
Best of 2016 and Product of the Year
So here we are again. Somehow, the year has turned, we’re all facing yet another New Year, and yet no one is running through the streets screaming about “the end [...]
Doctor’s Orders: Analog recordings by Metaxas
In house for more than a month now stands a gorgeous work of art, the Ikarus integrated amplifier, designed by Kostas Metaxas. Not the best match for my rather big speakers [...]
High End 2016: A reason to do shows, counts as wrap up
If you are kind enough as to read through the end, you will also know my favorite rooms of this year’s Munich’s High End show. But first, let me tell you why we do show [...]
High End 2016: A glorious return from Metaxas
Metaxas has achieved quasi-legendary status as a recording engineer and his amplifier designs always had a cult following. After years without doing anything tangible for [...]
