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Buyers Guide

2024’s Best Floorstanding Speakers | Buyers Guide 2024

December 1, 2023 Editorial Staff 11

Welcome to 2024’s Best Floorstanding Speakers from the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide. We’re not saying that these are the “best” floorstanding speakers in the world or that these choices somehow overrule anyone else’s favorites. We’re […]

CAF 2023

CAF Day One with Graig Neville | CAF 2023

November 11, 2023 Graig Neville 1

As a first-timer at CAF, my first order of business was to get a lay of the land. The Rockville Hilton has an unusual but good layout for a conference. Rooms are relatively easy to […]

Audio-Life

McGary Audio and Nola with Dr. Vinyl | On the Road

October 18, 2023 Marc Phillips 3

I hadn’t planned on visiting Dr. Vinyl on the way to Europe, but I had an open day after I attended the Alma Audio East event just 40 miles away in Virginia. The Doc had […]

PAF 2023

Best Sound in Seattle | PAF 2023

July 7, 2023 Marc Phillips 1

It’s getting more and more difficult picking the Best Sound winners at high-end audio shows. First of all, I’ve heard a number of loudspeakers this year that are competing feverishly to reach new heights of […]

PAF 2023

Nola and VAC Essence | PAF 2023

July 1, 2023 Marc Phillips 2

I talked about Kevin Hayes’ new VAC Essence line of amplification, which has started off with a pair of monoblock power amplifiers and a preamplifier with that “half-width” chassis aesthetic, when I covered the VAC […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Floorstanding Loudspeakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 3, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Floorstanding Loudspeakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Floorstanding Speakers 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 […]

Loudspeakers

Nola Champ S3 Loudspeakers | REVIEW

April 17, 2022 Marc Phillips 2

It took me over two years to get the Nola Champ S3 loudspeakers in for review. I’ve been making sideways comments over the last few months about the state of international and domestic shipping of […]

Digital

Rotel CD14MKII Compact Disc Player | REVIEW

January 14, 2022 Marc Phillips 4

Do you have a long-term plan for listening to compact discs? Are you considering burning your discs to a music server and selling off your enormous collection? (That’s me.) Are you considering keeping your collection […]

RMAF 2019

Eric’s Best-of-Show, RMAF Wrap-Up | RMAF 2019

October 1, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 1

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. Eric’s Best-of-Show Exhibits The time required […]

RMAF 2018

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

October 14, 2018 Eric Franklin Shook 3

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 to only two minutes. Now with […]

RMAF 2018

RMAF 2018: Must See Rooms of Saturday

October 7, 2018 Eric Franklin Shook 5

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. and cause a bit of anxiety. […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Best In Show

November 11, 2017 John Stancavage 6

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 stay afloat? Would vinyl continue its revival, possibly […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Nola Boxer S2 casts a long acoustic shadow

November 3, 2017 John Stancavage Comments Off on 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 of […]

LAAS 2017

LA Audio Show 2017: Nola Gold 2s play music like ringing a bell

July 23, 2017 John Stancavage 1

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. Visually, putting Nolas in your room is something like […]

TAVES 2016

TAVES 2016: Truely Nola

December 22, 2016 Richard Mak 1

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 thereof) has at least […]

Newport Beach 2016

Newport 2016: Nola, VAC soar into the atmosphere

July 14, 2016 John Stancavage 1

  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 rhythm line continued on the acoustic guitar, suddenly there […]

RMAF 2015

RMAF 2015: Nola’s knockout KO2

October 25, 2015 John Stancavage 4

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 especially talented boxers. Instead, Marchisotto […]

RMAF 2014

RMAF 2014: Nola drums up interest

November 5, 2014 Scot Hull 2

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 than your average undisciplined pub […]

RMAF 2014

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

October 27, 2014 Scot Hull Comments Off on RMAF 2014 Roundup, Part 4: Medium-Sized Rooms with Medium-Sized Speakers

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 himself? As usual, Jeff wrung excellent sound from his […]

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Newport Beach 2014

Newport 2014: Nordost and the last word in system refinement?

June 8, 2014 Scot Hull 7

According to many, many not-so-little corners on the Internet, none of this stuff is supposed to make a lick of difference. Cables, power conditioners, footers — all of it is supposedly irrelevant. Any impact you […]

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