Review: ZYX 4D Ultimate MC Cartridge
This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional this March in our Spring 2018 edition. We’ll be rolling out articles [...]
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Vinyl and CD sales top $1.5 billion, beating downloads in United States
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has crowned physical copies of music king of the US market for 2017 with a report just released showing that sales of [...]
Taking Our Carolina Soul Worldwide
Prelude I became a music lover around the age of four when I discovered my parents record collection and convinced them to let me touch the knobs on the family All-In-One [...]
DVL Album of the Month for February – Traffic
This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the [...]
A visit to Hawaii’s oldest record store: Hungry Ear Records
It was sun tan lotion, and fresh rain… no wait, tropical flowers. Errr, maybe a whiff of roasting meat on a BBQ mixed in too? This is what greeted my nose upon [...]
The Lost Generation of Audiophiles
I admit, being a child of the 80’s does come with a few perks these days. As nostalgia for “the good old days” of my generation ramps up, more and more movie and TV [...]
Vinyl Record sales climb again in U.S.A. despite physical sales drop – Neilsen
That big black wheel just keeps on turning… Industry metric stalwart Neilsen (perhaps known best for their television-rating numbers, but also for powering Billboard [...]
The List: Five of the Best Phono Cartridges in The World
Welcome to something new we’re going to try here on PTA thanks to our friend Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I’m going to be curating a new list [...]
An Old Scrooge Takes a Whack at New Holiday Releases for Christmas
I hate the holidays. The easiest and most diplomatic reason is that I spent eighteen years in retail management, and the holidays didn’t mean Peace on Earth and Good Will [...]
RMAF 2017: DeVore Fidelity unleash Gibbon Super Nine, Tone Audio rock steady with Sugden, SPEC
For the last few years John DeVore, and Jonathan Halpern have been hosting an exclusive speakeasy in the Denver Marriott Tech Centre during RMAF. It’s always in the [...]