Garrard, SME and the Resurrection of a Dream | High End 2019
Panagiotis Karavitas and I both opted to cover the Garrard and SME exhibit at High End 2019, and we were both granted the opportunity to report on what was arguably the [...]
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The Garrard 301 is back! (sort of) | High End 2019
Garrard, the legendary turntable company founded more than 50 years ago is back. Well, not exactly back as it was not entirely extinct. Garrards were still made by Loricraft [...]
Friday Highlights | High End 2019
Friday was my first full day at High End Munich 2019. Thursday, the first day of the show, was sabotaged by a combination of a long-ass sleepless night on the plane followed [...]
AXPONA 2018: Raidho Shines with Chord, SME and Nordost
Each and every show, Rune Skov seems to get great sound out of his Raidho-based systems. AXPONA 2018 had Raidho paired up with those crazy cats Jay and Richard at Bluebird [...]
SME acquires legendary Garrard turntable rights, and Loricraft Audio
It sounds like legendary Garrard 301 and 401 turntables could be put back into production after UK tonearm giant SME announced that they had acquired the rights to the [...]
McIntosh MA252 tube/solid-state: Review
Say hello to the McIntosh MA252: “Hello, stranger.” In the world of high-end audio, there are solid-state tribes and there are tube tribes. Usually, the two [...]
Review: Whisky and Listening – Vertere SG-1 turntable, SME-V tonearm, and Koetsu Onyx Platinum
Welcome to what I like to think of as a pinnacle of editorial writing in my small world, as it combines two of my favourite things to do: Have a glass of whisky, and kick [...]
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 [...]
RMAF 2016: Natural Sound Comes to America
One of my biggest pleasant surprises of June’s T.H.E. Show in Newport was the discovery of Natural Sound Europe. The Slovenian company announced its presence on these [...]
Review: Transrotor Fat Bob Reference, SME TR 5009 and Koetsu Onyx Platinum.
Transrotor, SME and Koetsu. I think it’s safe to say these are three of the top names in their respective fields of manufacture: turntables, tonearms and moving-coil [...]
