Eric’s Best-of-Show, RMAF Wrap-Up | RMAF 2019
DENVER (PTA) — All of the media reports I have read indicate that the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest of 2019 was — despite all odds — a smashing success. [...]
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RMAF 2018: Nola , VAC, Nordost; The Metro Grand Reference Gold 2, a live experience in-room
It is almost impossible to visit every room at an audio show. To do so would require running shoes, twenty-something knees, and a stopwatch for limiting your listening window [...]
RMAF 2018: Must See Rooms of Saturday
There are over 400 brands exhibiting here at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Making this event one of largest audio shows in North America. For some this can seem overwhelming. [...]
RMAF 2017: Best In Show
This year dawned with plenty of questions facing the high-end audio industry. The most pressing were: Would the U.S. economy hold up, allowing manufacturers and retailers to [...]
RMAF 2017: Nola Boxer S2 casts a long acoustic shadow
I’ve learned to allocate a little extra time when I see the Accent Speaker Technology Ltd. sign in the hallway at a show. Inside the room, I know I’m going to find a set [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Nola Gold 2s play music like ringing a bell
Nola speakers don’t look like anything else. In my experience, hearing hundreds of different transducers at shows each year, they don’t sound like anything else, either. [...]
TAVES 2016: Truely Nola
By Richard H. Mak I wasn’t sure whether the sign posted on the door of Foldback Sound is meant to be humorous or sarcastic, let’s just say his creativity (or lack [...]
Newport 2016: Nola, VAC soar into the atmosphere
When I entered the Nola/Valve Amplification Co. room at T.H.E. show in Newport, a distinctive repeating pattern of delicately plucked notes began playing. As the [...]
RMAF 2015: Nola’s knockout KO2
If Carl Marchisotto wasn’t busy designing speakers and whipping them into shape, I could picture him in the corner of a boxing ring, towel around his neck, coaching a few [...]
RMAF 2014: Nola drums up interest
by John Stancavage No member of the Beatles is more polarizing for his perceived talent than Ringo Starr. On one side, there’s the camp who insists he wasn’t much better [...]
