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Legato Duo Loudspeakers from Sonner Audio | REVIEW

November 6, 2022 Marc Phillips 1

If you have some time to spare, go visit Sonner Audio’s Gunawan Surya at a high-end audio show armed with a modicum of music knowledge. It’ll be a highlight of your show. Every time I […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Floorstanding Loudspeakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 3, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Floorstanding Loudspeakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Floorstanding Speakers 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 […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 3, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Bookshelf Speakers 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 […]

Announcements

Vandersteen Model 1Ci+ | NEWS

December 1, 2021 Eric Franklin Shook 1

When you fire-up the reminiscing machine and think deeply about how you became an audiophile, you might think back to your first real hi-fi purchase. For myself it was the Vandersteen 1C. I had owned […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Floorstanding Speakers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 28, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

Welcome to the Best Floorstanding Speakers 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 […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide 2022

November 28, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

Welcome to the Best Bookshelf Speakers 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 […]

Loudspeakers

Bowers & Wilkins 603 S2 Anniversary Loudspeakers | REVIEW

October 10, 2021 Eric Franklin Shook 1

I’ve had the Bowers & Wilkins 603 S2 Anniversary Edition (website) speakers in my possession since April of this year (2021), and since day one in my affordable review system, I’ve been itching with ideas […]

Announcements

Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Ex3me

September 22, 2020 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Ex3me

NEW YORK (PTA) — Launching today, a new special edition of the already popular Il Cremonese. This new speaker is was inspired by the 30th Anniversary edition Ex3ma. More details and photos are enclosed below. […]

Announcements

PSB Speakers PWM Series Wall Mount Speakers

September 3, 2020 Editorial Staff Comments Off on PSB Speakers PWM Series Wall Mount Speakers

PICKERING, ONTARIO, CANADA (PTA) – One of the best in-wall mounted speaker demonstrations I’ve ever heard came from a trio of PSB wall mounted loudspeakers. So with due excitement, I am happy to report that […]

Loudspeakers

Studio Electric M4 | REVIEW

July 20, 2018 Eric Franklin Shook 2

Studio Electric looks for a higher class of consideration Call me crazy but I have a particularly unwavering bias in this hobby for sound and sound only. I do not personally subscribe to the church […]

Announcements

Pioneering speaker designer David Wilson dies

May 28, 2018 John Stancavage 5

David Wilson may not have invented the high-end speaker, but his designs did much to define the category. Wilson’s Watt/Puppy, which began as a one-off project to help Wilson better monitor live recordings, became one […]

AXPONA 2018

AXPONA 2018: Benchmark stays smooth with Martin Logan

May 21, 2018 Rafe Arnott 1

Audiophiles like smoothness. Audiophiles don’t like rough edges, bumps or dips in frequency response, falloff in off-axis listening, hot treble, or exaggerated bass. Linear playback without attention being drawn to any particular part of the […]

AXPONA 2018

Munich High End 2018: Fern & Roby make it feel like the first time

May 10, 2018 Rafe Arnott Comments Off on Munich High End 2018: Fern & Roby make it feel like the first time

Christopher Hildebrand of bespoke high-fidelity manufacturer Fern & Roby showed off some impressive pieces of kit at AXPONA a few weeks ago, and when I spoke with him there he related his excitement at attending […]

Munich 2018

Munich High End 2018: The show that all shows want to be?

May 8, 2018 Rafe Arnott 1

MUNICH. Have you seen the 2005 Academy Award® historical thriller by Steven Spielberg? If you haven’t let me just say it’s intense. I bring it up because if you have been to the High End […]

AXPONA 2018

AXPONA 2018: Triangle Arts stays golden with Eggleston Works

May 3, 2018 Rafe Arnott Comments Off on AXPONA 2018: Triangle Arts stays golden with Eggleston Works

Every time I see one of the big gold Reference-level ‘tables by Triangle Art the theme song from the Sean Connery film Goldfinger starts playing in my head. It’s not even a conscience effort on […]

Occasional Magazine

The Path of Shindo – A Journey through Japanese high fidelity

April 14, 2018 Rafe Arnott 9

This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional this February in our Winter 2018 edition. We’ll be rolling out articles from it over the next several weeks […]

AXPONA 2018

AXPONA 2018: Von Schweikert Audio joins forces with The Audio Company

April 11, 2018 Rafe Arnott Comments Off on AXPONA 2018: Von Schweikert Audio joins forces with The Audio Company

With AXPONA peeking around the corner, I wanted to touch base with some companies I knew would be heavily invested in bringing their statement, and flagship designs to what’s fast becoming the largest audio show […]

Announcements

AXPONA 2018 Advance: New venue, more gear, live music

April 8, 2018 John Stancavage 1

There are a lot of ways to judge the significance and success of a hi-fi show — including the size of the venue, total attendance and number of exhibitors. By any of those metrics, Audio […]

Components

McIntosh MA252 tube/solid-state: Review

March 30, 2018 John Stancavage 7

Say hello to the McIntosh MA252: “Hello, stranger.” In the world of high-end audio, there are solid-state tribes and there are tube tribes. Usually, the two pretty much stick to their own camps, except for scattered […]

Announcements

Vivid Audio Giya G1 Series 2 listening session at Element Acoustics

March 10, 2018 Rafe Arnott 1

Smiling faces. A small sea of them, all looking happy, swaying to the music that was filling the room. I had never in my life seen a dozen audiophiles smiling, and enjoying the same thing. […]

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