Welcome to the Best Digital Players section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]
Welcome to the Best Preamplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]
The Audio Research LS28SE line stage preamplifier arrived at a time when I was playing with lightning in a bottle, a small project line stage utilizing a simple point to point OTL circuit and hot-rodded […]
Welcome to the Best Preamplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]
Welcome to the Best Digital Players section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]
The Best Preamplifiers [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best preamplifiers that we, the PTA team, have heard.] Luminous Audio Axiom II w/ Walker Mod ($499 […]
The Best DACs, Servers, Streamers, and Disc Spinners [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best DACs, streamers, servers and disc-spinners that we, the PTA team, have […]
The story of the ModWright PH 9.0 phono stage (website) is in many ways the story of my entry into the world of high-end vinyl playback, coinciding with my first serious turntable, then a second, […]
The Mola Mola Makua (website), much like the Tambaqui (review) before it, was a device utterly unknown to me before this review. Naming gear after exotic fish isn’t a new concept–I own a pair of […]
The Best DACs, Servers, Streamers, and Disc Spinners [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide […]
Debutantes Wear White Pro-Ject’s Debut Carbon EVO landed on my doorstep in what seemed like mere minutes after I’d been asking Managing Editor Eric Franklin Shook, “They want me to do a turntable review? But […]
Before I jump into the Mola Mola Tambaqui, I have to share a delightful tidbit of deadpan humor from my roommate. While amusing on its own, it ended up more prescient to the little DAC […]
PICKERING, ONTARIO, CANADA (PTA) — NAD Electronics is now shipping their MASTERS series M33 BluOS Streaming DAC Amplifier with the new power and features. Most exciting is the new Purifi Eigentakt Hybrid Digital amplifier modules […]
WASHINGTON DC (PTA) — GTT Audio & Video of Long Valley, New Jersey was exhibiting three new products in one stellar performing system. New for 2019, an integrated from Audionet, a turntable power supply from […]
For an audio manufacturer that has worked long and hard to craft equipment that sounds great under most normal listening conditions, taking that gear to an audio show can be as frightening as entering a […]
He may not realize it but Bruno Putzeys had a VERY good show. I say this because I don’t believe Bruno was at AXPONA. But he had two intriguing systems at the show. One was […]
This is less of a room review, and more a small write-up on an interesting piece of hardware/software I sort of stumbled across at AXPONA in Chicago: The Mola Mola Makua pre-amp with phono stage […]
Now this is a very interesting speaker coming from German designer Lansche. A three-way (nothing weird), 0.3” plasma tweeter (not common) with a 2” horn loaded tweeter taking care of frequencies from 400Hz to 2,5KHz […]
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis Ever heard of the myth that plasma tweeters are harsh? That they present sibilance? Lean? What about class D amps being sterile sounding machines? The Lansche Audio 5.1 driven by the […]
GTT Audio can always be counted on for a megabucks systems that sounds like, well, megabucks. This go-round, the offering consisted of the new YG Acoustics Sonja 1.2 passive speakers ($72,800), four Mola-Mola Kaluga mono […]
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