Welcome to the Best Phono Preamplifiers 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 product […]
The Best of Buyers Guide [Editor’s Note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide. This year we’ve added more entries to the Buyers Guide, which means we had to review more products than last year. […]
Welcome to the Best Phono Preamplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]
The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021 [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, […]
Lucien Pichette of the Jeff Rowland Design Group is an old friend of ours. He grew up in Montrose, Colorado, where Colleen and I lived for a few years, and I used to drive past […]
The Pass Labs XP-20 Pre-amplifier changed my perspective on the importance of a pre-amp and held its place in my listening room for a many years only to be replaced by its sibling the XP-30 […]
Time is running out to start 2018 with a brand-new DAC/headphone amp, courtesy of AudioQuest and Part-Time Audiophile. So, put down that eggnog and enter our Best of 2017 contest now, before the clock hits […]
For Immediate Press Release: Since we hired Electrical Engineer Mike Bettinger we have been asked about VPI’s future in electronics. Mike is known for his award-winning “Arion” phono, which is how we met him. Harry […]
Some rooms at audio shows catch your attention before you even go into them – which isn’t easy due to the fact that you’ve got music pouring forth from just about every door you pass by – […]
I’m sorry, did someone say “gold”? You don’t really see real gold very often — the actual metal — not in audio’s high-end, nor even in life generally. Certainly not big hunks of it. Maybe it’s […]
One of the first stops at these shows has to be a visit to the Schiitheads. It’s just mandatory. Whether or not they’ve brought new toys, these guys manage to pretend to be down to […]
Jim Hagerman of Hagerman Technologies has a lesson in high-end audio economics going on over at Kickstarter. Here’s the problem. Say you’re a “little guy” manufacturer. You want to fill an order and you’re not […]
by Kevin Venable A few weeks ago I was sent a pre-release copy of a pop album for review. The production was top-notch as was the mastering. The singing excellent as were the melodies. Lyrically […]
If you say “Red Wine Audio” to an audio nerd, chances are he’ll say something about batteries. Which is fair, as this is probably the thing the brand is best known for. Well, that … and all […]
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis There are legends in the hi-fi industry as in everything else. There is one, concerning a well-known US-based designer and his obsession for air transport as being the only safe way […]
— by Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis In the quest for better sound many vinyl lovers will find themselves buying a cartridge that they once heard in a friend’s house or a retail store, only to find […]
Bob Sattin of Bob’s Devices has this great big white lab coat he wears around audio shows. It’s sorta funny, sorta serious, but the idea is that Bob is the guy that’s gonna fix your […]
Tubes in phono amplification and RIAA de-emphasis The final goal in phono stage design stands in two pillars. First is to invert the RIAA curve in order to get a flat response out of the […]
I went to pick up Scot Markwell’s (of Elite A/V) show-room demo Plinius Koru phono preamp from Command Performance A/V today. This is that phono stage that I had a devil of a time finding […]
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