RMAF 2018: Must See Rooms of Saturday
There are over 400 brands exhibiting here at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Making this event one of largest audio shows in North America. For some this can seem overwhelming. [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]