The Best Cables, Power, Grounding and Equipment Racks [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! These are the best cables, power products, grounding products and racks that we, the PTA team, […]
TAMPA, FL (PTA) — It’s my second go-round with Fyne Audio, and this time things are different. Along for the ride Pass Labs, Aurender, Aqua HiFi, VPI Industries, My Sonic Lab, Shunyata, Critical Mass Systems. […]
Overture Audio Home Theater brought a surprisingly sophisticated system to the 2019 Capital Audiofest–surprising since all this amazing gear was featured in one of the smaller rooms upstairs and not in a downstairs conference room. […]
One of the best things I took away from the Florida show was a little science experiment that came out of a meet-up with Grant Samuelson from Shunyata Research. Several times in audio forums in […]
It seems like lately, I’ve been reconsidering some past held audio prejudices. For one, I have started to re-evaluate low power amps and what they are capable of. Two, I am understanding in more detail […]
I closed my eyes. A strange but familiar world of percussion and bass beats opened up in my imagination across a vast soundstage. I forgot about my exhaustion from a full day of walking the […]
Every marketplace has a challenger in the ranks that takes up against the old guard. Even though Music Direct has been around for many years, it’s continued foothold in the internet-shopping-sphere of hi-fi directly reflects […]
“Why don’t you leave me alone? Why don’t you call me on the phone?” Thus begins the track “Limbo” from Yello’s tour de force album Toy. The bass is deep and rich. The clarity of […]
I have a lot of respect for Andrew Jones. Every show he has something new and it always sounds very good. This year’s AXPONA had something I had been pressing Andrew on for a while… “when […]
I approached this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest with a strange mix of excitement and trepidation. The long-time venue of the Denver Tech Center Marriott was in the midst of significant construction which literally shut […]
Escaping on the last jet out of Denver after the close of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016, I felt a little like the nervous spy-support staff member Faisil in the 1994 movie “True Lies.” Reporting […]
By Richard H. Mak Mark Jones has been in the audio business for over 30 years, and a few years ago he went independent, starting his personal brick and mortar shop, Audio by Mark Jones. […]
I have a confession: I started an emotional affair with the Vivid Audio Giya G3 after meeting her and her twin at several recent audio shows. But like most new girlfriends, I was attracted by […]
It’s typical these days at the major audio shows for manufacturer rooms to vastly outnumber exhibits by retail equipment shops. It takes a big commitment, both in time and money, to send most of your […]
Here in Sardinia, we got treated to another demo room fronted by Sonus Faber, but this time powered by McIntosh Labs electronics. The display was an opportunity to see, hear and touch some of the […]
The Foundation Series, from Audio Research, was announced some little while ago, and represents the new “entry-level” from the company. You’ve already been told that the Series comprises the LS28 preamplifier, the PH9 phono pre, […]
The last few years have seen some very convincing advances in computer audio-based playback. As understanding has increased, sound quality has gone up. That’s undeniable. But is computer audio easier, in any meaningful interpretation of that […]
by Rafe Arnott Do you live under a rock? I’ll say it again, only louder this time … DO YOU LIVE UNDER A ROCK? Because even if you do (and with Vancouver housing prices, it […]
If you like visiting audio shows (and since you are reading this chances are you like it as much as I do) then you must have noticed that on every show the German high-end company […]
Music Lovers Audio debuted Wilson Audio‘s Duette Series 2 ($19,500), small stand-mount speakers designed specifically for tight spaces — they are designed to be placed near a wall or on a bookshelf. This latest iteration of […]
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