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

July 23, 2017

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. Visually, putting Nolas in your room is something like installing a pair of [...]

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

June 30, 2017

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 $350 USD rig. Even late Sunday – a typically slow-traffic time as the [...]

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

June 24, 2017

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 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel without tripping over the company’s [...]

Magnepan Update: No News

July 14, 2011

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 filled in that run, most probably. Paula at Magnepan said something about [...]

What price, (true) isolation?

March 30, 2011

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. It’s hard to focus past my own OCD. The bogeyman here is vibration. It [...]

In the Company of Giants: A day with the Revel Ultima Salon 2

March 9, 2011

Luckily for me, Evolution A/V in Tyson’s Corner, VA, has a pair of Revel Ultima Salon 2s on the floor. I hit the showroom at about lunchtime as I figured it’d be dead and I had a bit of a break before my late afternoon appointments piled [...]

Cornucopia: A Full Range Followup

March 7, 2011

Well, ask and you shall receive. I’ve been soliciting feedback from anyone who’ll provide it as to what would be a great, but not stratospherically priced, full-range loudspeaker. The feedback has been pretty interesting, and covered a [...]

In Search Of: Full Range Speakers

March 6, 2011

So, where to go from here? I have a pair of lovely Merlin VSM-MXR speakers that want for nothing. My room, on the other hand, wants for quite a bit. So, I’m on the hunt for a full range speaker. The problem with full range speakers is that the [...]