resolution audio

LA Audio Show 2017: Austin Hifi spreads the joy with Crimson, Tocaro, Resolution Audio

June 16, 2017

Some rooms at audio shows are like old friends that you haven’t seen for a while. The Austin Hifi room at the Los Angeles Audio Show was like that. They have a habit of putting together similar systems (musical, simple, dynamic) at the shows [...]

Newport 2015: Austin HiFi presents Tocaro, Crimson, Linn and Resolution Audio

June 29, 2015

by Rafe Arnott Austin HiFi‘s room at Newport was an interesting one for me. First off, it was packed the whole time I was there and I had to play musical chairs for about 15 minutes to get a seat in the sweet spot, as the Tocaro Model 42E [...]

Newport 2015: Spatial Audio, Red Dragon, Resolution Audio

June 15, 2015

I’m starting to hate Clayton Shaw. His Spatial Audio Laboratory has been pushing my buttons for two years with reasonably priced, open-baffle speakers. The last few models even sported the kind of big coax drivers that make my blood [...]

Newport 2014: AudioKinesis and Electra-Fidelity break their demo, cause riots and mayhem

June 25, 2014

There are two stops I plan to make at every show. The first is whatever room is haunted by Tony Chipelo of Electra-Fidelity and his amps. The second, when the rare opportunity presents itself, is wherever Duke LeJeune’s AudioKinesis is showing [...]

AXPONA 2014: DeVore Fidelity and Resolution Audio

May 8, 2014

John DeVore has been working on his Gibbon X loudspeakers for several years now, but he thinks the end is in sight — with luck, the new monkeys will get the final tuning and tweaking this year and be ready for ordering. It can’t happen [...]

CES 2013: Resolution Audio

January 28, 2013

There are a few — a precious few — audio companies investing in their aesthetic as part of their appeal. Given how much high-end audio components cost, as a rule, I have zero issues with those bits of jewelry actually looking the part. [...]