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LA Audio Show 2017: Floating vinyl, Sgt. Pepper, new products stand out on Day 1

June 3, 2017

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. Indeed, I had to pause several times during [...]

CES 2017: 12 hour Tour – Technics, DEG, Mytek, Sony, ELAC, Nagra, MSB, SweetVinyl, dCS, AudioQuest, Musical Surroundings

January 24, 2017

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 literally rip my way through CES. The trip [...]

RMAF 2016: Lee at the End of Line and Best in Show

December 13, 2016

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 off half the hotel [...]

Audio Advice: “Music Matters” in Charlotte, NC — Part 2

December 2, 2016

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 of it’s southern border. Coincidentally that is where Leon [...]

RMAF 2016: Sony and the Gentlemen from Japan

November 25, 2016

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 he brought along two colleagues from Japan [...]

RMAF 2015: Well Tempered Labs, Sony and Kimber Kable

November 8, 2015

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 on if those taste buttons are being [...]

RMAF 2015: Acoustic Sounds expands vinyl empire

November 1, 2015

“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 2015. Playing was a recent Beach Boys LP [...]

CES 2015: Sony’s High Resolution Walkman is totally lux

January 29, 2015

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 cheerfully around when I think about Sony’s latest [...]

RMAF 2014: Acoustic Sounds Gets stranglehold on Sony, show goers

October 24, 2014

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 played, I never get tired of it, but [...]

Athens Headphone Festival, Part 3

October 9, 2014

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 caught my attention was the MDR-1ADAC closed back headphone with [...]