Hi-Fi: Why Do Records Sound Better? | The Ivory Tower
Into The Groove Why do a lot of us audiophiles (and casual listener types) prefer the sound of records over the same music released digitally? Is it something about the [...]
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dCS Legends celebrates GRAMMY winning engineers
We can make all kinds of fuss about our audiophile gear, but this hobby would not exist without the magnificent content created by artists and the engineers that support [...]
The Audiophile Socialites | CAF 2019
WASHINGTON DC (PTA) — Most of the things I love about attending an audio show seldom have anything to do with audio. As for Capital Audiofest 2019, it has proven itself to [...]
Review: Brian Eno “Music For Installations” 9 LP box set
by Paul Ashby After the piece had been running for about a week, I decided to do a bit of customer research and I went to the park with a translator and asked the old guys [...]
Munich High End 2018: Fern & Roby make it feel like the first time
Christopher Hildebrand of bespoke high-fidelity manufacturer Fern & Roby showed off some impressive pieces of kit at AXPONA a few weeks ago, and when I spoke with him [...]
Review: Kondo Overture II integrated amplifier and GE-1 Phono Amplifier
This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional this February in our Winter 2018 edition. We’ll be rolling out articles [...]
Munich High End 2018: The show that all shows want to be?
MUNICH. Have you seen the 2005 Academy Award® historical thriller by Steven Spielberg? If you haven’t let me just say it’s intense. I bring it up because if you [...]
Jimmy Smith: DVL Album of the Month for April
This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the [...]
Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: McIntosh Labs and YG Acoustics
Walking into this room at the Vancouver Audio Festival was a bit like turning the fairy tale Beauty & The Beast into a visual audiophile metaphor. Scoping out the massive [...]
AXPONA 2018: In-depth with Zesto Audio
Music is a thread that seems to run through the lives of audiophiles. I say “seems to” because often in my conversations with those who profess to be said [...]
