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A La Carte Productions, Spendor, Chord, SME, VPI, Vienna Acoustics, Aesthetix | FLAX 2020

February 24, 2020 // 1 Comment

Spendor is BACK! Yeah, I know I already used that line with the Bob Carver room, but in this case it’s a little more personal. I started my high-end audio journey with [...]

Emm Labs, Focal, HeadAmp, Kimber Kable, Wattgate, WBT | RMAF 2019

September 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

DENTER (PTA) — Kimber Kable, Emm Labs, Focal, and HeadAmp put together a two room suite that catered to both the stereo and headphone crowd. Wattgate and WBT both had [...]

Must See Rooms, Day Three | T.H.E. SHOW 2019

June 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

LOS ANGELES (PTA) — This year’s T.H.E. SHOW 2019 is bigger, better, and already on track to be the most newsworthy yet. There are over 1,000,000 brands exhibiting [...]

The all out assault from YG and Nagra | High End 2019

June 6, 2019 // 1 Comment

This is the kind of rooms that make people visit the Munich show. This is also the kind of room that make some of our readers scream at us, at the industry as a general. The [...]

Garrard, SME and the Resurrection of a Dream | High End 2019

May 24, 2019 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

The Garrard 301 is back! (sort of) | High End 2019

May 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

May 11, 2019 // 2 Comments

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

May 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

May 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

March 30, 2018 // 7 Comments

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 [...]