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RMAF 2018: Nola , VAC, Nordost; The Metro Grand Reference Gold 2, a live experience in-room

October 14, 2018 // 3 Comments

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

October 7, 2018 // 6 Comments

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

November 11, 2017 // 6 Comments

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

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

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

July 23, 2017 // 1 Comment

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

December 22, 2016 // 1 Comment

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

July 14, 2016 // 1 Comment

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

October 25, 2015 // 4 Comments

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

November 5, 2014 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

RMAF 2014 Roundup, Part 4: Medium-Sized Rooms with Medium-Sized Speakers

October 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Darryl Lindberg High Water Sound: Hørning Hybrid Systems, TW-Acoustic, etc. What can I say that hasn’t already been said about Jeff Catalano’s show set-ups—or Jeff [...]