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Buyers Guide

2024’s Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide 2024

December 1, 2023 Editorial Staff 9

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

Loudspeakers

Gershman Acoustics Studio XdB Loudspeakers | REVIEW

September 17, 2023 Marc Phillips 1

This is the second year in a row that I’ve agreed to transport a pair of review speakers from the Pacific Audio Fest back to the house, and it’s the second time my Mazda CX-5 […]

Loudspeakers

Piega Coax 411 Loudspeakers | REVIEW

September 15, 2023 Marc Phillips 2

I now feel, after spending time with the Piega Coax 411 speakers, as if I dropped the ball when I wrote about the debut of the new EMT 928 II turntable back in the MoFi […]

Loudspeakers

Aretai Contra 100S Loudspeakers | REVIEW

August 18, 2023 Marc Phillips 5

I’ve made a concerted effort not to dwell on the country of origin of many of my review components over the last year or so. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen reviewers go a little overboard, […]

Cables & Power

ArgentPur Cables | REVIEW

August 11, 2023 Marc Phillips 7

Do you believe in fate, or that everything happens for a reason? That’s how I felt when I first decided to review ArgentPur cables. First, Ernest Meunier of ArgentPur contacted PTA and asked if we […]

Munich 2023

Piega and T+A | Munich 2023

May 28, 2023 Marc Phillips 1

During the Florida Audio Expo last February I waxed rhapsodic about the new EMT 928 II turntable in the MoFi Distribution room, only to be blindsided by a couple of readers who said “What about […]

Florida 2023

EMT and MoFi | FLAX 2023

February 23, 2023 Marc Phillips 3

I’m going to tell you my favorite discovery during the 2023 Florida Audio Show, the single new product that excites me the most. It’s the EMT 928 II turntable, brought to the United States by […]

Audio Advice Live 2022

Best of Show and Wrap-Up | Audio Advice LIVE 2022

September 2, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 2

Audio Advice LIVE 2022, It’s a Wrap! RALEIGH, NC (PTA) — The Sheraton Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina has long since returned to normal. The exhibitors have long since packed up, loaded their chariots, and flown […]

Audio Advice Live 2022

Piega, HiFi Rose, Dr. Feickert Analog, EMT, BAT, MoFi Distribution | Audio Advice LIVE 2022

August 27, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on Piega, HiFi Rose, Dr. Feickert Analog, EMT, BAT, MoFi Distribution | Audio Advice LIVE 2022

The One You’ve All Been Waiting For MoFi Distribution brought the most serious system of Audio Advice LIVE 2022. The MoFi room was indeed the talk of the show. Reporting by Eric Franklin Shook Feature […]

Audio Advice Live 2022

Audio Advice Live 2022 | PREVIEW

August 12, 2022 Eric Franklin Shook 3

Audio Advice Live 2022 is only one week away! Our coverage begins on Friday the 19th of next week and runs continuously until completed. From our most recent communication at Audio Advice, the entire Sheraton […]

Announcements

A New Audio Show Emerges | Audio Advice Live 2022

July 26, 2022 Editorial Staff 1

A new high-end audio show emerges! Audio Advice Live 2022 (website) is a three-day audio show event, beginning on Friday, August 19th, 2022 and ending on Sunday, August 21st, 2022. The show runs from 8am-6pm […]

Florida 2020

Eric’s Wrap-Up and Best of Show | FLAX 2020

February 27, 2020 Eric Franklin Shook 1

TAMPA, FL (PTA) — Back again, to tell it like it is. This year’s Florida Audio Expo delivered on all of the promises made in 2019. New for 2020: more exhibitors. For me that’s enough, […]

Florida 2020

The Piega Premium Wireless 701, Cardas Audio, Mofi Distribution | FLAX 2020

February 17, 2020 Eric Franklin Shook 1

TAMPA, FL (PTA) — On the hunt for streaming, the boys and I find ourselves sweet-talking Mofi Distribution’s Jonathan Derda for the streaming remote control. Little does he know, we have an urge to stream […]

AXPONA 2019 Air Tight
AXPONA 2019

Axiss Audio, Air Tight, Piega, Wireworld, Accuphase, Franco Serblin, Reed, Shelter, Solution Audio, TAOC, Transrotor | AXPONA 2019

April 26, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 2

CHICAGO (PTA) — Two pair of massive Piega loudspeakers stood tall, cast in silhouette against the Chicago sky. Between them, glowing tubes, like city street lights sat atop the Air Tight monoblocks. The Story Axiss […]

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