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Buyers Guide

The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 4, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Phono Preamplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 4, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents […]

Announcements

The Best of Buyers Guide 2022

December 4, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

The Best of Buyers Guide [Editor’s Note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide. This year we’ve added more entries to the Buyers Guide, which means we had to review more products than last year. […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 26, 2021 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide 2022

Welcome to the Best Phono Preamplifiers section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every product […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms and Headshells | Buyers Guide 2022

November 26, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

Welcome to the Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide Summer 2021

May 16, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

The Best Tonearms [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best tonearms that we, the PTA team, have heard.] Tonearms Sorane TA-1L ($1,875 USD) From the Japanese […]

Analog

Parasound Halo JC 3+ Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW

March 19, 2021 Marc Phillips 2

Is the Parasound Halo JC 3+ phono preamplifier (website) a modern incarnation of the Vendetta Research? Before you answer that, have you ever heard John Curl’s original Vendetta Research phono preamplifier? I have, maybe about […]

Analog

LSA T-3 Turntable | REVIEW

February 21, 2021 Marc Phillips 4

  Maybe you’ve started to notice a certain theme in many of my reviews, so it won’t surprise you to hear that the LSA T-3 turntable (website) and I also go way back. We’re talking […]

Components

Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum S2 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW

January 22, 2021 Marc Phillips 5

Four hundred watts per channel. The Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum S2 (website) has four hundred watts per channel. In over forty years of being an audiophile, including the twenty-plus years I’ve been reviewing hi-fi […]

The Vinyl Anachronist

Monika Lidke, Let the World Be a Question | The Vinyl Anachronist

December 31, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Monika Lidke, Let the World Be a Question | The Vinyl Anachronist

Wouldn’t you know it? I have two turntables up and rarin’ to go: the LSA T3 turntable and unipivot tonearm with a Soundsmith The Voice cartridge, and the Gem Dandy Polytable Signature with Sorane TA1-L […]

The Vinyl Anachronist

Squarewave’s Hazy | The Vinyl Anachronist

December 17, 2020 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Squarewave’s Hazy | The Vinyl Anachronist

The vinyls. Remember those? Seems like I haven’t received a lot of vinyl to review in the last couple of months. I had a reader comment not too long ago that I should limit the […]

Buyers Guide

The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021

December 7, 2020 Editorial Staff 1

The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021 [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, […]

Analog

The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide 2021

December 4, 2020 Editorial Staff 11

The Best Tonearms [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, which makes it […]

Analog

The Best Phono Preamplifiers | Buyers Guide 2021

December 4, 2020 Editorial Staff 6

The Best Phono Preamplifiers [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, which makes […]

Components

Rotel A14 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW

November 27, 2020 Marc Phillips 3

  Why in the world would I want to review the Rotel A14 (website), an integrated amplifier with DAC and phono stage and headphone amplifier all sorts of features for just $1500? What is this, […]

Analog

Fern & Roby Montrose Turntable and Tonearm | REVIEW

July 10, 2020 Marc Phillips 2

A few months ago, Dave and Carol Clark of Positive Feedback made a social media post where they told friends in the industry they were looking for a new turntable and asked everyone an audiophile’s […]

Florida 2020

Margules Audio, Core Power Technologies, Soundsmith and Old Friends | FLAX 2020

February 13, 2020 Marc Phillips 1

It was such a pleasure to find Margules Audio exhibiting at FLAX 2020. I’ve known the Margules family of Mexico City for many years, back to when Colleen and I used to regularly visit their […]

CAF 2019

Now Listen Here featuring EgglestonWorks, Rogue Audio, Primare, VPI Industries, Soundsmith, and Wolf Audio Systems | CAF 2019

December 6, 2019 Eric Franklin Shook 1

WASHINGTON DC (PTA) — Now Listen Here, a dealer located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania transported the showroom experience to Capital Audiofest 2019, with brands such as EgglestonWorks, Rogue Audio, Primare, VPI Industries, Soundsmith, and Wolf Audio […]

CAF 2019

Marc’s Capital Audiofest Wrap-Up | CAF 2019

November 24, 2019 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Marc’s Capital Audiofest Wrap-Up | CAF 2019

Much of my Capital Audiofest wrap-up has already been telegraphed. I talked about my favorite rooms in The Occasional Podcast, and I’ve hinted as much in these show reports. You’ve probably already guessed that this […]

CAF 2019

Fern and Roby, ModWright Instruments, Black Cat Cable | CAF 2019

November 15, 2019 Marc Phillips 1

I know I’ve been blathering on and on about Fern & Roby lately–the review of the $9500/pair Raven loudspeakers appeared just before the 2019 Capital Audiofest, Eric Franklin and I featured out tour of the […]

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