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High End 2017: Cessaro horns throaty rumble of conviction

June 6, 2017

There were so many horn loudspeaker manufacturers at High End in Munich this year that a lesser horn addict than myself might have succumbed to horn fatigue. But not I. I would feel strangely energized as the day wore on, and when I came across [...]

AXPONA 2017: Tidal’s sonic wave floods room with the spirit of music

May 8, 2017

As I stood mutely at the front of the crowded room I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d stumbled into some kind of church, or worship service by accident. There was powerful keyboard music with thunderous bass being played through a huge [...]

AXPONA 2017: High Water Sound is what it’s all about… the music

April 25, 2017

There’s a quote I got from Peter Qvortrup of Audio Note UK which I brought up a number of times over the weekend in Chicago at AXPONA, and it goes like this: “There’s far too little focus on music, and far too much focus on [...]

Newport 2016: Highwater Sound mic drops with Cessaro, and TW-Acustic

July 15, 2016

“Two channel with attitude” is what it says at the top of the Highwater Sound room’s gear listing page that Jeffrey Catalano handed me at T.H.E. Show after I had crawled around the room like a spider photographing it. I [...]

High End 2016: Cessaro Horns with TW-Acustic

June 4, 2016

Horn manufacturer Cessaro brought the four-way Gamma 2 speaker system with an added horn loaded active sub-woofer, good for 300.000 euros. Driving force behind the speakers was a pair of parallel single end mono amplifiers named Air Two and capable [...]

Review: Luminous Audio Arion and ModWright PH150 Phono Preamplifiers

December 12, 2015

By cheerfully weird happenstance, I received two world-class phono preamplifiers, pretty much right on top of each other. The first to arrive was the Arion phonostage ($6,395) from Tim Stinson of Luminous Audio. Tim Stinson was beside himself over [...]

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High End 2017: Cessaro horns throaty rumble of conviction

AXPONA 2017: Tidal’s sonic wave floods room with the spirit of music

AXPONA 2017: High Water Sound is what it’s all about… the music

Newport 2016: Highwater Sound mic drops with Cessaro, and TW-Acustic

High End 2016: Cessaro Horns with TW-Acustic

Review: Luminous Audio Arion and ModWright PH150 Phono Preamplifiers

RMAF 2015: Darryl’s Best

RMAF 2015: Welcome to vinyl heaven, with TW Acustic, Cessaro Horns, Tron Electric

RMAF 2015: High Water Sound and Stax

Newport 2015: High Water Sound presents Hørning Hybrid, Tron Electric, TW-Acustic, Miyajima Lab