AXPONA 2018: The MUST SEE Rooms of Day Three
Welcome to Chicago There are over 160 rooms and exhibits here at Axpona. Making this event the largest audio show in North America. For some this can be overwhelming and [...]
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High End 2017: TechDAS impresses in the Vivid – CH room
The TechDAS demo was among the salient moments of the entire show. You were in Munich but you’ve skipped it? You can turn off your browser now, you won’t [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Welcome to the Jungle
I strung together a long list of swear words and shook my suitcase helplessly. I was tired, and in no mood to be tested by an insubordinate piece of luggage. I had arrived [...]
AXPONA 2107: Kyomi, On a Higher Note go back to 1947 with Vivid, Jadis
Kyomi Audio and On a Higher Note combined the old and the new to produce alluring sound — and spooky time travel — in their demo room at AXPONA. First off, in the [...]
RMAF 2106: Vivid’s Giya G3 Turns Heads With Kyomi, On a Higher Note
I have a confession: I started an emotional affair with the Vivid Audio Giya G3 after meeting her and her twin at several recent audio shows. But like most new girlfriends, I [...]
Newport 2016: Einstein masters energy, matter
I thought about starting this report on Einstein Audio Components with some would-be snappy play on the company’s name, such as “Einstein really did its math in [...]
AXPONA 2016: Lyn Stanley puts Kyomi Audio system to the ultimate test
It’s not often you attend an audio show demo where a song’s actual singer shows up for an impromptu live versus Memorex moment. Just such an unlikely event has happened [...]
RMAF 2015: TechDAS adds muscle with Air Force Two, joins forces with Einstein, Graham Engineering and Audiomachina
TechDAS need to get Harrison Ford to star in their sequel to Air Force One. Let’s be original and call it Air Force Two. This turntable is a behemoth, and with the [...]
High End 2015: CH Precision, Vivid Audio, TechDAS
Some companies do not simply “show up” at Munich High End, they try to dominate the show. Some, like CH Precision, present more than one amazing room — [...]
High End 2015: Blumenhofer, Einstein, TechDAS
Pairing a huge 16” woofer with a compression tweeter usually leaves a gap in the crucial mid frequencies but Blumenhofer Acoustics managed to get things right. The Genuin [...]