RMAF 2017: Best In Show
This year dawned with plenty of questions facing the high-end audio industry. The most pressing were: Would the U.S. economy hold up, allowing manufacturers and retailers to [...]
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RMAF 2017: Must See Sunday and Eric’s MVP
Photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook Don’t fret, more in-depth coverage is coming soon from your slightly unorganized, inept, and dysfunctional writing crew at Part-Time [...]
AXPONA 2017: Legacy makes waves in room correction by breaking waves in your home
Various room-correction devices have been developed in the past few decades to address the one big variable in hi-fi reproduction — where you listen. Even the best rigs [...]
Newport 2016: Burwell and Sons
Gordon Burwell, president and founder of San Francisco-based Burwell & Sons, recently saved a load of vintage burl walnut from becoming firewood. Instead, the material [...]
AXPONA 2016: John Stancavage’s Best of Show
Best Sound Cost-no-object system: Wilson Alexx, driven by Doshi tube amps (Paragon/Wilson Audio room). Neutral, effortless and jaw-dropping sound, combined with realistic [...]
AXPONA 2016: Ortofon and Zanden soothe the savage beast
There’s a lot of different sound to be heard at any given hi-fi, or audiophile trade show. Demo rooms vying for attention like small children at daycare who [...]
AXPONA 2016: Legacy wins out in catfight
A series of distorted, amp-on-11 power cords crashed behind me, rattling the glass on the door as I prepared to enter Legacy Audio’s lobby room Sunday afternoon at AXPONA [...]
RMAF 2014: Burwell & Sons, Raven & Mytek
It’s strange going to a show to report on something you’ve reviewed. There’s an emotional investment in the quality of the room that just doesn’t [...]
New York 2014: Volti, quoth the Raven, Evermore
I don’t really need to be a millionaire, I just want to be one. I think of that difference as subtle, and one that ought to get much smaller than it is currently. I [...]
CAS 2014: Burwell & Sons and the best fun you could be having
There’s something about stepping off an elevator to a blare of funk music that makes you suddenly feel a bit like you’re in a Quentin Tarantino movie. Or maybe [...]