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RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: SPL Offers New Features and Price Points

November 17, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: SPL Offers New Features and Price Points

Outside of the big CanJam ballroom at RMAF, several manufacturers like iFi Audio, Centrance, and SPL were setup  and the extra space there (and proximity to Pint Brothers bar) was welcome. SPL offers some of […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Headamp Introduces the Gilmore Lite 2

November 16, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Headamp Introduces the Gilmore Lite 2

Headamp always has their great Blue Hawaii and GS-X amplifiers sounding excellent at RMAF but this year was an introduction of the much more affordable Gilmore Lite 2 at $499 USD.  Shipping in a few […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Rafe wraps up the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver

November 12, 2017 Rafe Arnott 2

Risky Business is a classic American film about coming of age, materialism, capitalist society, and taking chances. My son brought it up in a recent conversation about movies, and I couldn’t help but mentally compare […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Sonore Renders Sublime Sound

November 12, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Sonore Renders Sublime Sound

Streaming.  All the cool cats are doing it. However, confession time…I’m a bit lost. I have some pieces of a puzzle but I don’t know how to put them together. Network bridge? Tidal HiFi? Roon? […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Bob’s Devices Pairs up with Chesky for Great Analog

November 12, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Bob’s Devices Pairs up with Chesky for Great Analog

I ran into Bob Sattin of Bob’s Devices at RMAF as I was looking at new Chesky LP releases in the marketplace. Sattin was next door and said, “Hey, do you want to listen to […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Zu, Peachtree create club vibe

November 7, 2017 John Stancavage Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Zu, Peachtree create club vibe

Each year at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, Peachtree Audio and Zu Audio take a large corner room on the mezzanine level of the Marriott Denver Tech Center. First-time visitors likely are surprised by what […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Bang & Olufsen’s BeoLab 50 goes boldly where no speaker has gone before

November 7, 2017 John Stancavage 1

Sitting in the darkened SmartLife Audio Video room at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, I had a flashback to “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.” In the film, which I’d just watched again a few […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Can Jam Gets in my Head

November 6, 2017 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Can Jam Gets in my Head

  I’ve still got a lot to learn about what is chic in the headphone community. So, as I roamed the sea of tangled cords and music-bar like atmosphere of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Periodic Audio Introduces The Nickel Amplifier 2

November 5, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Periodic Audio Introduces The Nickel Amplifier 2

One of the really fun things I got to do in audio this year was judge the Alfie Awards with industry veteran Roger Skoff at the LA Audio Show. This had us going around to […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: HiFi Man Surprises on the High and the Low

November 5, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: HiFi Man Surprises on the High and the Low

I ran into Andy Regan at the Pint Brothers bar at RMAF on Friday when a good number of us audio nerds were having beers and a very late lunch.  He said he had moved […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Sanders creates electrostatic bliss

November 3, 2017 John Stancavage 3

There were a lot of impressive-looking rooms at the 2017 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest – special mood lighting, huge product posters, rented greenery. There also were loud after-hours listening sessions, cocktail parties and even some swag. […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: iFi Audio Tackles USB 3.0 and Its Noise Gremlins

November 2, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: iFi Audio Tackles USB 3.0 and Its Noise Gremlins

In the past, I have loved the iFi Audio gear for my computer audio playback system.  Everything I have tried has worked well and, maybe best of all, the individual pieces are usually just a […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Nordost shows the power of better cords

November 2, 2017 John Stancavage Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Nordost shows the power of better cords

OK, you’ve decided to upgrade your cables. What should you start with? Speaker cables, right? They usually are the longest wires in a system and the last to handle your delicate signal before it emerges […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Neat’s new Xplorer has small footprint, big sound

November 1, 2017 John Stancavage Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Neat’s new Xplorer has small footprint, big sound

The Iota Xplorer, a new speaker from Neat Acoustics, is only 29-inches high. Still, it towers over its older brother, the Iota Alpha, which stands just 16-inches tall. Both speakers, interestingly, are intended as floor-standers […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Nokturne Audio shows how torque matters with Lejonklou, JBL, and Linn

October 31, 2017 Rafe Arnott Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Nokturne Audio shows how torque matters with Lejonklou, JBL, and Linn

Lejonklou is not a high-fidelity manufacturer many audiophiles have probably heard of, and that’s too bad because Fredrik Lejonklou – the man behind the Swedish company – is on to something special with his incredibly transparent […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: The Audio Alternative goes deep with Vandersteen, VTL, HRS, Brinkmann, and AudioQuest

October 30, 2017 Rafe Arnott 1

“Bass. How low can you go?” Familiar lyrics for me as I was a rabid Public Enemy fan in the late ’80s, and most of the early ’90s. The base they’re referring to was crack […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Bluebird Music Sets The Table

October 28, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Bluebird Music Sets The Table

Bluebird Music had a huge suite and lots of goodies.  Richard Colburn and Jay Rein were showing off some new gear from SME, Chord, and Vienna Acoustics.  Starting with the live gear on demo was […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Wireworld’s Headphone Cable Polygraph

October 27, 2017 Lee Scoggins Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Wireworld’s Headphone Cable Polygraph

As I was running around CanJam trying to keep up with all the coverage possibilities, I ran into Larry Smith from Wireworld, who I had first met at a successful local audio club event.  Larry […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Big News from Chord Electronics

October 26, 2017 Lee Scoggins 1

Covering CanJam this year was a real blast. Every vendor seemed to have super exciting product introductions and Chord Electronics was no different albeit it was a more cerebral one.  I’ll explain.  As Chord fans […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Voxativ single-minded in pursuit of great sound

October 25, 2017 John Stancavage Comments Off on RMAF 2017: Voxativ single-minded in pursuit of great sound

  It’s almost become a cliché for reviewers to say a loudspeaker’s drivers “speak with one voice.” I’ve used that phrase myself at least once in my Rocky Mountain Audio Fest coverage this year, and […]

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