The first time I met Gary Morrison in person, for our Down Under Audio exhibits at the 2016 Newport Show, I quickly learned he had a fondness for well-timed flatulence. He was a master at […]
LOS ANGELES (PTA) — In the past, I’ve always found Furutech audio show exhibits to be some of the most stunning to look at, but in my experience they’ve never included active demonstration systems. This […]
LOS ANGELES (PTA) — This year’s T.H.E. SHOW 2019 is bigger, better, and already on track to be the most newsworthy yet. There are over 1,000,000 brands exhibiting here in Long Beach — okay, […]
Lessons in power, synergy, and love By Eric Franklin Shook Greensboro, North Carolina hasn’t seized the love it deserves for many years. It’s our third largest economy in the state, and more importantly it’s a […]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I bought a boatload of Plinius electronics. The reason? I wanted bass. Like most things, it was a matter of timing and circumstance. My Merlin VSM-MXR loudspeakers […]
No other speaker component gets as much attention from innovators and fiddlers as the tweeter. It’s easy to understand why: your ears can forgive some weaknesses in the bass or even the midrange, but if […]
Too many exhibitors saw too little of us. Worse yet, we heard too little of them to write anything fair. We could say they were lovely. We could complain that they sounded terrible. The exhibitors, […]
Splitting two rooms, Triode Wire Labs, Charles Rollo Audio (formerly Swap Meet Audio), and GT Audio Works were clearly having a fine time of it. Triode Wire Labs was showing off his brand new “American Speaker Cable” […]
If you’ll pardon the promotion, but every time I find a demo room with either Plinius or eFicion, I kinda feel like a judge who refuses to recuse himself when hearing a case he himself […]
As Luck would have it Bruce Jacobs, the self-described Old Audio Dude (and the Sales Manager for loudspeaker manufacturer eFicion), is wily fox. Given that the eFicion F300 loudspeakers that I had been so enamored […]
Gary Dews has, for the last several years, put together one of my favorite rooms at the Capital Audiofest. Who’s Gary? He is the man behind Border Patrol, and what he does is make amplifiers. […]
I walked into Peigen Jiang’s room at Newport and nearly laughed out loud. No, no — it’s not like that, I’m not being mean — it’s just that I have this system at home! Or […]
Who’s Fritz? Fritz Heiler makes loudspeakers. He’s the man behind Fritz Frequencies, a one-man shop working out of Los Angeles, and all his gear is Made in the USA. But it’s just him, which pretty […]
I am not a fan of resolutions. It’s not that I don’t keep them or even have trouble keeping them. Well, no more than most folks, I guess. It’s the reflection that I don’t really […]
I was just trying to think of a way to describe what it is that’s happened to the sound of the big Plinius SA-Reference when I swapped in the new Furutech fuses. And then, Positive […]
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 […]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I met a loon. Many (many …) years later, my very good friend got me hooked on audio. It was how my obsession started. And […]
Well, this has been a long time coming. I have many to thank for this achievement and you all know who you are. Thank you so much! This amplifier is insane. It’s huge! Okay, so […]
I spent some time yesterday with the Plinius M-16p and got a chance to do some serious comparisons between this legendary top-of-the-line preamp with the brand’s current reference, the Tautoro. For those that haven’t had […]
Have you ever had one of those moments when you slap your forehead and say, “I could have had a V-8!” Yeah, me neither. I obsess, so I’m rarely shocked by system changes. So, I […]
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