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High End 2017: Blumenhofer, MasterSound, Cammino and the final horn room

June 28, 2017

This is it. This is my last horn-loaded loudspeaker room writeup from High End 2017 at the MOC in Munich. Some of you will lament this, other rejoice, but to both camps I say this: Listen to horns, it may just change you forever. I don’t deny [...]

HiFi Centre steps in to fill void as Vancouver Audio Show pulled from Chester Group website

May 26, 2017

With the Vancouver Audio Show that was scheduled to run June 23rd to June 25th no longer appearing on show organizer The Chester Group’s website, Igor Kivritsky of Hifi Centre in downtown Vancouver is stepping in to put on a specialized high [...]

High End 2017: VPI lays down the flagship Fat Boy tonearm

May 19, 2017

Rough cab ride, broken computers at check-in, badges in hand, and we’re ready to conquer the world’s largest audio show. The map is intense, and Panagiotis Karavitis enlightens us with pro tips. Start on the top floor of Hall 4, [...]

AXPONA 2017: Chicago prepares for hi-fi onslaught

April 21, 2017

It was quiet. Too quiet. As I wandered the wide, empty halls of the Westin O’Hare Hotel just outside Chicago Thursday afternoon I couldn’t help that notice that the bulk of the exhibitor rooms were dead quiet. A plaintive wail from Neil [...]

Turntable manufacturer sees sales surge 400% to keep up with vinyl numbers

March 31, 2017

If you’ve got a thing for vinyl, then you’ve got a thing for turntables too. Both are dependent upon the other, and as worldwide sales of LPs hit upwards of 3 million copies in 2016 according to several news outlets, turntable [...]

RMAF 2016: Nagra, Kronos, and Avalon Acoustics provide precision with emotion

October 18, 2016

This was probably the most beautiful looking room at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest this year to me. I mean your eyes just kinda went ‘CAYOOGA!!’ in a Loony Toons cartoon character (think old-fashioned car horn) kind of way when you clocked [...]