Into The Groove Why do a lot of us audiophiles (and casual listener types) prefer the sound of records over the same music released digitally? Is it something about the inferiority of digital? Are vinyl […]
SAN DIEGO, CA — You’re probably asking why we—a hi-fi mag—are reporting on a Sony A7C camera. The truth is we’re only Part-Time Audiophiles. After hours we each have family life, social functions, and several […]
TAMPA, FL (PTA) — This is a story of perfect execution. Salon 1 Audio of Ormond Beach, Florida had assembled a system of familiar brands, those include: Wilson Audio, VTL, Transparent Cable, Sumiko, Pro-Ject, Sony, […]
Words and Photos by Eric Franklin Shook RALEIGH, NC (PTA) — You might expect one of the nations most innovative and successful high-end audio dealers to be located in the likes of New York, Chicago, […]
The Sony SA-Z1 “desktop” system is poised to revolutionize near-field listening for a number of discerning audiophiles. The Sony SA-Z1, which will retail in the high four-figure range when it’s released, consist of two active […]
Friday at the 2019 RMAF was one of those long, busy and productive days where at the end of it you sit back and think wow, I met a lot of interesting people. Not just […]
Audio Advice celebrates forty years in business by pulling out all the stops during their annual Music Matters event. Words and Photos by Eric Franklin Shook Music Matters, is an annual celebration of music listening. […]
A study by Texas A&M found that on an average, an American spends 38 plus hours per year waiting in traffic. For me, its music that gets me through the grind and takes me to […]
Even though it’s Labour Day around the world, and we’re all supposed to be doing our level best to avoid work like the plague, I felt compelled to bring you news that digital-music juggernaut MQA has […]
The inaugural Los Angeles Audio Show opened Friday with the wall-rattling whoosh of a troubled spaceship, a bus rocking with the latest mobile audio and a turntable levitating an inch or two off its base. […]
This year, I decided to do the accelerated CES 2017 tour. With some loss of good judgement, I created a flight plan in and out of Vegas from Seattle in a single day with just enough time to […]
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 […]
Words and Photos by Eric Franklin Shook From The Bottom To The Top Poverty in the American South has many names, one of them being Laurinburg. It’s a small town in North Carolina, just north […]
It’s always fun to see Naotaka Tsunado from Sony at Rocky Mountain. I first met Nao at a Chesky recording session in Brooklyn and he has always shown great enthusiasm for portable audio. This year […]
Simplicity is beauty to this humble audiophile. And the Well Tempered Labs Amadeus GTA is nothing if not simplicity. I’m an aesthetic snob, I make no apologies for having a certain taste and being turned […]
“I mostly put out what I like,” Chad Kassem, owner of Salina, Kansas-based Acoustic Sounds was explaining to a couple of audio fans as I entered his ground-floor room during the second day of RMAF […]
I have a soft spot for the old Walkman brand. I carried one of the originals pretty much everywhere when I was a kid, and echoes of those painful, turbulent and largely destructive times echo […]
By John Stancavage When I walked into the spacious, ground-floor Acoustic Sounds room at RMAF, head honcho Chad Kassem had just cued up Dave Brubeck’s jazz chestnut “Take Five.” As often as this track gets […]
Sony had a big humongous presence during the fest with many new models of the Hi Res series which made their debut only a few weeks back at IFA Berlin 2014 and the one that […]
I was having a serious déjà vu thing with the Sony Walkman all weekend. Every time I turned around, it seemed, I was making a comment about my old safety-yellow Walkman from 30 years ago. […]
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