By Paul Elliott As you have read from all the glowing posts, AXPONA has developed into a great show, well run by JD Events. This is a professional company, and one that understands our industry […]
Photography by Paul Elliott I have completely bought into the music reproduction industry ever since I heard the difference between lamp cord as speaker wire and Monster brand wire oh so many years ago. Yes, […]
Picking the best audio component of the year is kind of like pondering your ultimate list of girls to ask to the high school prom. There are many very attractive choices, but probably a much […]
A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, proving again that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Axpona is to me an ensemble interpretation of […]
Music lovers entering the Gingko Audio–Wells Audio–SalkSound room at AXPONA 2016 encountered a plethora of world premieres. Wells Audio introduced its Audio Majestic integrated amplifier ($3,499), which was connected to two new products from Salk Signature […]
This was a surprise. The entire show. A surprise. And given that it seemed like it might not happen at all for a few months, the overall success was a stunner. Sound quality? WAY up. […]
I’m not sure what happened, but somewhere in the last couple of years, Salk Sound did something not just good but downright amazing. I like to think that in some small part, the Exotic line […]
Some folks just get used to winning. The 1996 Yankees come to mind. Sure, ’97 was an off-year, but you just knew what was coming. Walking into this room felt a whole lot like that […]
Salk Signature Sound was showing off the new Exotica 3 ($11,995), wearing some different veneers over the last time I saw it at CAF. This is latest exotic permutation derived form the SEAS Exotica line, and […]
Jim Salk of Salk Signature Sound was showing some very fancy new loudspeakers at CAF this weekend, a prototype he’s calling Exotica 3. The name derives from the main driver in use, the X2-08 Exotic […]
Chances are that, if you’re reading this, you already are familiar with Salk Sound and Audio By Van Alstine; both of these consumer-direct companies are Internet forum favorites and have huge followings amongst the techno-savvy. […]
Forum favorite Jim Salk (of Salk Signature Sound) brought two pairs of speakers to the show, his Soundscape 8 ($7995) and Veracity ST ($4195). The source was the superb Auralic Vega DAC fed by Salk’s own […]
There are a couple of “makers” in the high-end that command respect. Or that I just have respect for. Not like Aretha, though I suppose that fits, but more like fist-to-chest with a murmured “Res-speck” […]
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