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Buyers Guide

The Best Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

June 4, 2022 Editorial Staff Comments Off on The Best Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells | Buyers Guide Summer 2022

Welcome to the Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells 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 […]

Munich 2022

DeVore Fidelity O/Baby | High End 2022

May 29, 2022 Marc Phillips Comments Off on DeVore Fidelity O/Baby | High End 2022

From the moment I heard the news that John DeVore, of DeVore Fidelity, was going to expand his Orangutan line on the entry-level side of things, I knew I needed a listen ASAP. I’ve been […]

AXPONA 2022

Wynn Audio, Vimberg and Karan | AXPONA 2022

May 6, 2022 Marc Phillips Comments Off on Wynn Audio, Vimberg and Karan | AXPONA 2022

This report on the Wynn Audio room at AXPONA 2022 might seem a little photo-heavy. There’s a reason for this–we had five PTA staff members at AXPONA and every single one of them just HAD […]

Announcements

The Best of Buyers Guide 2022

December 4, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

The Best of Buyers Guide [Editor’s Note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide. This year we’ve added more entries to the Buyers Guide, which means we had to review more products than last year. […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms and Headshells | Buyers Guide 2022

November 26, 2021 Editorial Staff 1

Welcome to the Best Phono Cartridges, Tonearms, and Headshells 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 […]

Buyers Guide

The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide Summer 2021

May 16, 2021 Editorial Staff 2

The Best Tonearms [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best tonearms that we, the PTA team, have heard.] Tonearms Sorane TA-1L ($1,875 USD) From the Japanese […]

Buyers Guide

The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021

December 7, 2020 Editorial Staff 1

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 Buyers Guide into sections, […]

Analog

The Best Tonearms and Phono Cartridges | Buyers Guide 2021

December 4, 2020 Editorial Staff 11

The Best Tonearms [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 Buyers Guide into sections, which makes it […]

THE Show 2019

Aaudio Imports, Ypsilon, Wilson Benesch and Aurender | T.H.E. Show 2019

June 29, 2019 Marc Phillips 1

Aaudio Imports is the North American distributor for such fantastic lines as Ypsilon and Wilson Benesch, and their room at T.H.E. Show 2019 was positively purple. It sounded wonderful, yes, but I remember it being […]

Munich 2019

Aries Cerat impresses in Munich | High End 2019

June 2, 2019 Panagiotis Karavitis Comments Off on Aries Cerat impresses in Munich | High End 2019

This could have also been entitled Horns the European way mk3, as I have already covered Cassaro and Tune Audio for this year’s Munich show. Aries Cerat comes from Cyprus and they offer cost no […]

Munich 2019

Børresen Acoustics | High End 2019

May 28, 2019 Panagiotis Karavitis 1

Michael Børresen has been hitting strikes for a few years now though you might not be completely aware of his work, it was mostly done under the Raidho brand. And Aavik electronics. And Ansuz cables. […]

Analog

Thales Simplicity II Tonearm | REVIEW

December 16, 2018 Richard Mak 2

On March 27th, 1983, the New York Times published an article titled “Sound; Tonearms: Is Linear Better?”. The article read like a technical paper, more sophisticated than some of today’s articles found in Audiophile magazines. […]

RMAF 2018

RMAF 2018: A Critical Eye

November 10, 2018 Editorial Staff 4

Photography by Paul Elliott I have completely bought into the music reproduction industry ever since I heard the difference between lamp cord as speaker wire and Monster brand wire oh so many years ago. Yes, […]

RMAF 2018

RMAF 2018: Wynn Audio; feat. Thales, Karan, ZenSati, Kalista, Penaudio, Entreq, Kiso Acoustics

October 18, 2018 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on RMAF 2018: Wynn Audio; feat. Thales, Karan, ZenSati, Kalista, Penaudio, Entreq, Kiso Acoustics

Wynn Audio is one of North America’s premier high-end audio dealers, and thus has quickly become a mainstay among the audio show circuit for producing ultra-high-end exhibit rooms that truly stimulate the senses. It was […]

AXPONA 2018

AXPONA 2018: The Expo Hall (Part One)

May 23, 2018 Eric Franklin Shook Comments Off on AXPONA 2018: The Expo Hall (Part One)

Bigger and better than ever, this years Expo Hall at AXPONA was alone worth the cost of admission. Vendors were pulling all the stops with their displays and demo exhibits. Traffic was consistent throughout the […]

Show Report

AXPONA 2018: Wynn Audio – and interviews with Metronome, Kiso, Zensati, Thales

May 5, 2018 Rafe Arnott 1

Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio out of Toronto, Ontario is always pushing the boundaries of high-fidelity preconceptions in some way or another. He likes to mix things up at audio trade shows with his presentations. […]

Announcements

Wynn Audio offers proof of concept “Golden Record” booth at the Interior Design Show in Toronto

January 16, 2018 Rafe Arnott 3

It went out into space on September 5, 1977 and is now the farthest man-made object from our planet. I’m talking about the Voyager spacecraft, which is now in interstellar space, and contains something extremely […]

Analog

The List: Five of the Best Turntables in the World

November 26, 2017 Rafe Arnott 13

Welcome to something new we’re going to try here on PTA thanks to our friend Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I’m going to be curating a new list every month featuring different categories […]

Canada

DVL Album of the Month for November – the dub god King Tubby

November 25, 2017 Rafe Arnott 2

This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through the bins, and coming up with […]

RMAF 2017

RMAF 2017: Aaudio Imports, Wilson Benesch make a statement with Cardinal loudspeaker

November 9, 2017 John Stancavage 3

I first auditioned a pair of Wilson Benesch speakers about a decade ago at a Dallas dealer. I had come in primarily to listen to a tube amp I fancied, but the sight of the […]

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