A Reunion with Gene Rubin | T.H.E. Show 2019
If you’ve been reading my stuff for a while, especially the original Vinyl Anachronist column for Perfect Sound Forever, you probably know of my fondness for Gene Rubin [...]
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Graham Audio and the Lure of the British Monitor | High End 2019
Sometimes I feel like I can spot a classic BBC monitor from a mile away, or in this case from across the main halls of the MOC at High End 2019. “Is that the Graham [...]
Garrard, SME and the Resurrection of a Dream | High End 2019
Panagiotis Karavitas and I both opted to cover the Garrard and SME exhibit at High End 2019, and we were both granted the opportunity to report on what was arguably the [...]
Friday Highlights | High End 2019
Friday was my first full day at High End Munich 2019. Thursday, the first day of the show, was sabotaged by a combination of a long-ass sleepless night on the plane followed [...]
MoFi, Wharfedale and Quad | AXPONA 2019
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten excited over a so-called “budget” component, which is why the MoFi, Wharfedale and Quad room at AXPONA 2019 was [...]
Capital Audiofest 2016: DSA amplifies their approach
DSA stands for Dynamic Sounds Associates, but they might as well call themselves Dat is Super Awesome. Hmm. Okay. Welp, that’s probably why I never got anywhere as a [...]
Vancouver 2015: Pat’s Audio Art with Spendor, Jadis, Rega
by Rafe Arnott Spendor is a speaker brand that has been hand-built by UK craftsmen in Hailsham, Sussex since the ’60s. I imagine them as salt-of-the-Earth types that [...]
Review: Tekton SEAS Pendragon
by John Richardson Oh my, these seem like big speakers, or more like two giant monoliths bearing down on me as it sit in my listening chair. Good lord, I think these things [...]
Newport 2014: Brooks Berdan making things simple with Auralic, Spendor
Like most show goers, I have a problem keeping rooms straight. It’s either “that big Magico room” or that “little Channel Islands room.” [...]
CAS 2013: A Children’s Treasury of Missed Opportunities, or, The End
Too many exhibitors saw too little of us. Worse yet, we heard too little of them to write anything fair. We could say they were lovely. We could complain that they sounded [...]
