LA Audio Show 2017: Wrap-Up and John Stancavage’s Best of Show
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 [...]
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GoldenEar Triton References: in Dealers Now and Ready for Audition
A little bird (okay, okay, it was Sandy Gross) told me that the long-lusted-for (by yours truly) flagship GoldenEar loudspeakers, the Triton Reference ($8,498US/pair), are [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Nothing baffling about performance of Emerald Physics speakers
There always are a number of mini-trends going on at any one time in the high-end. Lately, some of those have includes tape decks, vibration-control devices and integrated [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Vandersteen, Audio Research create enchanting sound
Whether they admit it or not, all audiophiles have biases. Some value tight, powerful bass above all else, for example, while others crave analog warmth and tube [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Upscale Audio’s PrimaLuna Dialogue HP integrated much more than ‘good for the money’
If you run into a friendly, middle-aged man at an audio show calling himself “Uncle Kevvy,” you can be sure that nearby there will be two things: lots of tubes and good [...]
Win a free SVS subwoofer!
Part-Time Audiophile and Audio-Head have partnered with SVS to give away a SB-2000 subwoofer (valued at $699) to one lucky person this month! From SVS: The SVS SB-2000 [...]
Review: Genesis Loudspeakers 5.3, Hear Me Roar
My biggest fear in writing just about anything is that I’m not going to do the subject justice. These are only words, after all, and far too often what I intend to [...]
AXPONA 2012: Martin Logan, Krell, Transparent, The Tape Project
The Martin Logan demo at AXPONA was new for me on several fronts. I’d never heard Martin Logan’s CLX panels before. I’d never heard 7 subwoofers in a single [...]
Bass tamer: Velodyne SMS-1
I might have mentioned that I have a relatively new pair of Merlin VSM-MXR speakers? Yes? Well, I do. And they’re awesome. The immediacy and intimacy of them are just [...]