The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021
The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021 [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the [...]
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The Best Bookshelf Speakers | Buyers Guide 2021
The Best Bookshelf Speakers [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the [...]
FLORIDA 2019: House of Stereo, Wolf Audio Systems, TAD, Wireworld
House of Stereo brings retail sensibility to a small room, Wolf Audio Systems takes us back to the future, TAD (Technical Audio Devices) puts a fine point on detail, Ayre [...]
CAF 2018: MoFi, Tenacious Sound and a Whole Lotta Real Estate
Tenacious Sound, one of my old dealers out of Syracuse, New York, has been busy expanding over the last couple of years–owner Shayne Tenace has moved his base of [...]
Capital Audiofest 2017: Tenacious Sound, exhibits with tenacity
The Story “Trusting your ears can save you a lot of money.” That’s my version of an old audiophile chestnut. Today this philosophy was proven true by Shayne [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Rafe’s wrap up on California
While this may have been the inaugural Los Angeles Audio Show, it had an air of familiarity about it that made for an easygoing experience. Everything seemed to run like a [...]
Best of 2015 and Product of the Year
2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, [...]
RMAF 2015: Suntory time with Koetsu and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Suntory time. Who could forget Bill Murray in Lost in Translation? An all-time classic film moment, and if you mixed that with Groundhog Day, you’d find yourself [...]
High End 2015: End of Line and Best In Show
The thing about Peat and Scotch There was a moment I thought I might be in serious trouble. One moment, in particular. One wrong step, and I’d be in it for sure. But I [...]
High End 2015: Wrapping the Un-Wrappable
An entire month passed since we got back from Munich and our combined efforts produced more than 50 extended show reports, many of which are closer to mini-reviews than a [...]
