The AXPONA Audio Con started out as a bit of a logistical challenge for The Audio Traveler crew this year. Non-audio responsibilities kept our publisher, Scot Hull, away from the show at the same time […]
I’m willing to put up with a lot of ugly in my audio – the various Nextel-painted Tannoy DMTs that have graced my living room attest to this – but my personal hierarchy tends to […]
by Warren Chi If personal audio was a religion (and believe me there are those who act as if it is), then one of the faith’s most enduring prophecies is that the mighty Orpheus shall […]
by Warren Chi I begin my annual pilgrimage at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall. For personal audiophiles the world over, this is our Mecca. Dutifully, I faced east within South Hall and headed […]
I can keenly recall a time in my not-too-distant past where I was openly dismissive of headphones as even a passable translator of audio joy. Said a bit more bluntly, I thought the entire segment to […]
Market and Value High-End Audio, as a market segment, is a weird and fickle beast. It’s not really even a single market at all, but rather an odd agglomeration of (not unrelated) segments, including consumer […]
My buddy Michael Liang of Woo Audio ushered me right over to the lucite case. “See?” he said. “We’re going portable.” In the case was a blank, a white plastic mock-up of what might someday be called […]
I’m going to confess something. Ready? Headphones and headphone audio systems can be hard to like. The issue is context, for me. I come at audio’s high-end by way of two-channel and multi-channel audio systems. Big […]
Next to a rain-soaked dumpster full of old Altec drivers, the Headmasters ballroom had to be the saddest place in the HiFi world. The Westin’s air walls are a perfectly uniform shade of County Jail […]
Sometimes, you just hit the nail so squarely, you can just feel it disappear cleanly into the wood. It’s a satisfying feeling, isn’t it? Whack! This is pretty much the feeling I got the first time I […]
According to many, many not-so-little corners on the Internet, none of this stuff is supposed to make a lick of difference. Cables, power conditioners, footers — all of it is supposedly irrelevant. Any impact you […]
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis If you were to think of the most expensive headphone system, what would be your guess? The mighty STAX 009? The recently launched Abyss AB-1266? Think again. A couple of decades […]
Sennheiser has been making headphones for just about forever, and offers solutions to just about every possible market segment. You’ve got in-ear, on-ear, over-ear. You’ve got mobile. You’ve got pro audio and consumer audio. You’ve got wireless and wired. […]
Once upon a time, Beats Electronics annoyed a great many headphone enthusiasts. There was a blizzard of iPod-like marketing and the accompanying flurry of high-profile celebrity endorsements, and suddenly every tool and their moronic brother […]
A syndicated article from Audio360.org by amos barnett, warren chi, michael liang, kevin venable & ethan wolf Remember your first kiss, a new puppy wagging its tail at you, the opening notes of your favorite song, […]
By Michael Mercer I’m addicted to the CEntrance HiFi-M8. I haven’t used my reference desktop headphone rig since I received my M8 three weeks ago. That reference rig that’s been lying dormant? My E.A.R HP4 […]
Spent some time hanging out with my pal Simon from Woo Audio, lamenting about how hard it is to set up a demo room at an audio show. All that fussing with positioning, room nodes, […]
I suppose I ought to be in Newport right now, taking in T.H.E. Show. But … well. I’m not. Instead, I just got back from a very relaxing week-long stay in the Outer Banks of North Carolina […]
“The journal came to me, as such things do, by happenstance. It was tucked inside a crate of affects my grandfather had left in storage, forgotten in the decade since his death. The handwritten pages […]
I just snagged a copy of Chris Jones, Roadhouses & Automobiles. All I have to say is this: Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Buy this disc. Now. Just do it. I’m totally lovin’ the […]
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