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Burwell & Sons showcase Plain Jane, unveil new active and passive loudspeakers at California Audio Show

July 27, 2017

If you’ve hit a recent audio show, chances are you’ve had an opportunity to hear Burwell & Sons loudspeakers. The bespoke, vintage Altec driver designs are beautiful to look at, and convey true tone, timbre, and “in the [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Starke Sound and the art of Home Theatre

July 12, 2017

Cinephile. Oh, and also audiophile. I’m a man of ‘philes it seems. And, as much as I consider myself a lover of cinema of all types (major Kurosawa fetish), I’ve not spent any real time with a proper surround-sound, Dolby-enabled [...]

AXPONA 2017: Music From Another Room, Part 3

June 11, 2017

A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook You can’t just say “It’s awesome, buy it.” Eliciting a gut reaction of confidence in consumers who speak your name in conversations of top tier service and products is neither straightforward, [...]

AXPONA 2017: Daedalus goes deeper with new 10-inch woofer

June 5, 2017

The last time I listened at length to a pair of Daedalus Audio speakers at a show, they were flanked by the company’s custom subwoofers. At AXPONA, I again was impressed by the low frequencies coming from a Daedalus design; this time the new [...]

OPPO Releases UDP-205 Audiophile Universal Player

April 22, 2017

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Player Gets an Audio Performance Boost MENLO PARK, California – April 24, 2017 – OPPO Digital announced that its UDP-205 4K Ultra HD Audiophile Blu-ray Disc player is available for purchase. A step-up version of the [...]

“Affordable high-end” — is that like “jumbo shrimp”?

March 4, 2017

How many Simolians do you have to part with these days to get good sound? I mean, really? Is it even possible, or just a frustrating pipe dream? That seems to have been Topic A in 2016, continuing hot on the heels of the previous year and probably [...]

OPPO UDP-203 Available Soon

December 12, 2016

Long-time readers will note that I’m a big fan of OPPO and their digital disc-spinners. I think I have one of every generation they’ve released, both for my two-channel systems and for my home theater setups. For example, my current [...]

RMAF 2016: OPPO Aims at the Head and the Heart

October 28, 2016

OPPO Digital may have made its name with its famed disc-spinning products, but today the company has a fast-growing catalog of diverse gear. Many of those units were on display at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, with headphones, compact speakers and [...]

RMAF 2016 Preview: Getting High on Hi-Fi in the Rockies

October 6, 2016

Stereo nutjobs have one last opportunity this year to binge out on more than 150 systems gathered under one roof. Yes, it’s time to head to Denver for the venerable Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. The high-end equipment orgy, now in its 13th year, runs [...]

Capital Audiofest 2016: Joseph goes Rogue with analog tape

August 10, 2016

To hear my colleagues tell it, audio shows contain no surprises. They’re boondoggles, at best, a chance to catch up and swap notes, hoist a tasty adult beverage in the general direction of solidarity. But interesting? No. Well, aside from the [...]