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AXPONA 2017: Music From Another Room, Part 2

June 11, 2017

A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, proving again that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Axpona is to me an ensemble interpretation of beauty, ruggedness, finesse and power; all tangled in a whirlwind [...]

AXPONA 2017: Putting eyeballs and eardrums on the latest gear

April 22, 2017

If high-end audio manufacturers harbor many serious concerns about the state of the industry, you wouldn’t know it from the long list of new products that went on display Friday at AXPONA in Chicago. The annual, three-day Audio Expo North America [...]

Euro news: IBEX AUDIO acquires MasterBuilt Audio distribution for Austria, Germany and Switzerland

March 28, 2017

A little something from our email inbox this morning for you: Damon Von Schweikert of – you guessed it – Von Schweikert Audio passed along some information that their distributor IBEX AUDIO, who also represents Swiss manufacturer CH [...]

TAVES 2016: Angel City Audio

November 7, 2016

By Richard H. Mak The Angel City Audio room was a pleasant surprise, and one of my favorite sounding rooms in all of TAVES. Angel City Audio is a distributor based in California, under their umbrella are brand names such as Melody, NuForce, and [...]

Newport 2016: ModWright can do no wrong with Ryan, Daedalus

July 13, 2016

It’s notoriously difficult for audio manufacturers to present consistently outstanding sound from show to show, with the vagaries of hotel rooms, onsite power and a sometimes constantly shifting assortment of partners bringing other gear. [...]

AXPONA 2016: EgglestonWorks, Skogrand, ModWright, Triangle Art and Massif send up flare from uncharted territory

May 5, 2016

Part-Time Audiophile publisher Scot Hull already has noted that a few of the room locations at AXPONA 2016 left something to be desired (though he may have voiced that in a bit stronger terms), but it’s something I noticed, too. In particular, [...]

CanJam SoCal 2016: ModWright and WyWires

March 30, 2016

It sounds a little dirty. Illicit, maybe. Sneaky, certainly. I suppose it makes sense — how do you characterize all those stolen moments, swooning in the arms of your secret passion? Say hello to Tryst, the new headphone amplifier from [...]

Best of 2015 and Product of the Year

December 30, 2015

2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, everyone is gone, and WTF is the deal with all the freakin’ zombies?!? Oh. [...]

Review: Luminous Audio Arion and ModWright PH150 Phono Preamplifiers

December 12, 2015

By cheerfully weird happenstance, I received two world-class phono preamplifiers, pretty much right on top of each other. The first to arrive was the Arion phonostage ($6,395) from Tim Stinson of Luminous Audio. Tim Stinson was beside himself over [...]

RMAF 2015: Daedalus, ModWright go for the heart

November 3, 2015

Like Fitzgerald and Armstrong, Simon and Garfunkel or Jagger and Richards, some pairings were just made for each other. That’s the same feeling I got from auditioning the Daedalus speakers at RMAF 2015, combined with ModWright Instruments [...]