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Audio Note UK factory tours and Life in the fast lane with Peter Qvortrup

August 12, 2017 // 7 Comments

Coffee. Champagne. Coffee. Russian liqueur. Coffee. Tequila. Coffee. Whiskey. Coffee. Red wine. Coffee… I lost track of the actual number of drinks, and coffees I had [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Wrap-Up and John Stancavage’s Best of Show

August 3, 2017 // 3 Comments

Audio shows can be a strange experience. No, I’m not talking about catching a frightening glimpse of yours truly, shakily down on all fours, getting a close-up photo of an [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: The Voice That Is launches a Tidal wave

July 29, 2017 // 2 Comments

You can say two things for certain about high-end audio dealer Doug White: He has terrific ears and is very discerning. White runs The Voice That Is, a Philadelphia-based [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Wyred 4 Sound, KEF offer attainable sonic bliss

July 28, 2017 // 2 Comments

In the retail trade, products by Michael Kors and Kate Spade are considered “affordable luxury.” They offer a taste of opulence, but with prices significantly below [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Raidho D1.1 speakers create big sound from small box

July 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

I get the impression that Raidho Acoustics is one of those high-end companies that does things in what it believes is the “right” way, no matter the cost. Raidho [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Nola Gold 2s play music like ringing a bell

July 23, 2017 // 1 Comment

Nola speakers don’t look like anything else. In my experience, hearing hundreds of different transducers at shows each year, they don’t sound like anything else, either. [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: The $350 to $5,000 systems they were lining up for

June 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

There were a number of spectacular, cost-no-object components drawing stereo fans at the Los Angeles Audio Show, but the room I had the hardest time getting into featured a [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Wilson Audio comes out in force, preps Alexia 2

June 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wilson Audio Specialties showed impressive strength in numbers at the 2017 Los Angeles Audio Show. Indeed, it was hard to walk very far in the five floors of stereo exhibits [...]

Magnepan Update: No News

July 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

Well, it looks like I failed to make the cut in the last 3.7 production run. Bummer. According to Magnepan, the next run should start up in about 3 weeks, and my slot will be [...]

What price, (true) isolation?

March 30, 2011 // 3 Comments

Evil Vibrations I think there was a time, long ago and far away, when audiophiles didn’t obsess about things like equipment isolation. I don’t really know. [...]