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The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 4, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

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 […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 26, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide 2022

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 […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Integrated Amplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2021

May 16, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

The Best Integrated Amplifiers [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best integrated amplifiers that we, the PTA team, have heard.] PS Audio Sprout100 ($699 USD) We […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2021

May 15, 2021 Editorial Staff 5

The Best Phono Preamplifiers [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best phono preamplifiers that we, the PTA team, have heard.] Soundsmith MMP3 Mk. II ($799.95 USD) […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Integrated Amplifiers | Buyers Guide 2021

December 5, 2020 Editorial Staff 12

The Best Integrated Amplifiers [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, which makes […]

Analog

The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide 2021

December 4, 2020 Editorial Staff 6

The Best Phono Preamplifiers [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, which makes […]

Digital

BorderPatrol SE-i DAC | REVIEW

August 8, 2020 Dave McNair 8

Whenever the talk of my distaste for digital audio comes up among audiophile friends, there are usually two things mentioned. First, I’m asked “What DAC are you using?” The second thing commonly said is “You […]

Components

TIDAL Audio Prisma Preamplifier | REVIEW

July 24, 2020 Dave McNair Comments Off on TIDAL Audio Prisma Preamplifier | REVIEW

Is the absence of any coloration its own signature coloration? During my time with the TIDAL Audio Prisma preamplifier, I found myself asking that very question. People like me who listen to music for a […]

Components

Audio Hungary Qualiton APX 200 Vacuum Tube Stereo Power Amplifier | REVIEW

July 17, 2020 Dave McNair 3

When Mark Sossa of Well Pleased AV called about dropping off a pair of the excellent QLN Prestige Three speakers for me to review a few months back, he casually mentioned he might also bring […]

Analog

Jeff Rowland Design Group Conductor Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

June 28, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Jeff Rowland Design Group Conductor Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

  Having a Jeff Rowland Design Group product in my reference system reminds me, in a roundabout way, of one of the greatest hi-fi systems I’ve heard. This happened nearly a decade ago, at the […]

Analog

LampizatOr Vinyl Phono MC1 | REVIEW

June 7, 2020 Dave McNair 2

What the heck is in THAT thing? That was my first reaction to the huge road case I signed for from my delivery guy. My second reaction was “Dayum, I don’t remember there being an amplifier […]

Analog

ZYX Ultimate 100 Phono Cartridge | REVIEW

May 31, 2020 Dave McNair 6

There is something about a curry. Sorry, but for some reason when I started making serious notes about the sound of the ZYX Ultimate 100 moving coil phono cartridge, I thought of food. I love Indian […]

Loudspeakers

Qln Prestige Three Loudspeaker | REVIEW

May 15, 2020 Dave McNair 5

Last November at the 2019 Capital Audio Fest, I had a fantastic time hearing numerous amazing systems and meeting some great folks. One of the many rooms I enjoyed was hosted by Well Pleased AV […]

Announcements

PS Audio Stellar M1200 Monoblocks

May 11, 2020 Editorial Staff 1

We’re big fans of the PS Audio Stellar line–Marc Phillips just reviewed the PS Audio Stellar phono stage, and Dave McNair owns the Stellar line stage as part of his reference system. That’s why we’re […]

Components

Mactone MH-120 Amplifier, XX-7000 Preamplifier | REVIEW

April 19, 2020 Marc Phillips 4

My Mactone (website) adventure started last year at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, when I went to visit my good friend Bob Clarke of Profundo. He brought a pair of Trenner & Friedl Osiris loudspeakers, […]

Analog

PS Audio Stellar Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

March 29, 2020 Marc Phillips 5

After arranging to review the PS Audio Stellar phono preamplifier, I realized that the first time and only time I’ve reviewed a PS Audio product was way back in 2008, when the GCPH phono stage […]

Analog

Rega P10 Turntable | REVIEW

March 22, 2020 Dave McNair 15

By means of introduction to the Rega P10 turntable, let me start by saying that I work as a mastering engineer. For some time, I’ve wanted to upgrade my current turntable, a Rega P3, to […]

Florida 2020

MC Audiotech, Linear Tube Audio, PS Audio, Wolf, Audience, ANTICABLES | FLAX 2020

February 16, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on MC Audiotech, Linear Tube Audio, PS Audio, Wolf, Audience, ANTICABLES | FLAX 2020

“Some of the best business connections I’ve made were while I was smoking a cigar,” Mark Conti of MC AudioTech told me. We met out in the little smoking area of the outside patio at […]

Music

Orqid’s Tenderness | The Vinyl Anachronist

January 30, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Orqid’s Tenderness | The Vinyl Anachronist

Back when I reviewed Rasmus Kjaer‘s stunning LP Turist, I mentioned that three electronica albums showed up on my front porch within a few days of each other. Orqid’s Tenderness was actually the first slab […]

New York 2019

Bache Audio, Alexus Audio | New York 2019

November 18, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Bache Audio, Alexus Audio | New York 2019

The Russian-born tag team of Alex Chorine (Alexus Audio) and Greg Belman  (Bache Audio) were paired up again to put together a no-nonsense system that they seem to do reliably at every show.  I have […]

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