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RMAF 2017: The Voice That Is delivers rolling thunder in black and chrome

October 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

I foolishly keep thinking that maybe this time Doug White of The Voice That Is will put a foot wrong somewhere, try something out of context for shits, and giggles, but no he [...]

RMAF 2017: Mile-high in Denver with PS Audio, Fern & Roby, Nagra, Tidal, Zu, DeVore Fidelity, and Tone Imports

October 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Paul McGowan of PS Audio was grinning ear-to-ear as he started telling me about the company’s brand new P20 PureStream Power Plant Friday morning at RMAF inside the [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: The Voice That Is launches a Tidal wave

July 29, 2017 // 2 Comments

You can say two things for certain about high-end audio dealer Doug White: He has terrific ears and is very discerning. White runs The Voice That Is, a Philadelphia-based [...]

High End 2017: Cessaro horns throaty rumble of conviction

June 6, 2017 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

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

May 8, 2017 // 6 Comments

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 [...]

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

April 25, 2017 // 15 Comments

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: [...]

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

July 15, 2016 // 3 Comments

“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 [...]

High End 2016: Cessaro Horns with TW-Acustic

June 4, 2016 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

Review: Luminous Audio Arion and ModWright PH150 Phono Preamplifiers

December 12, 2015 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

RMAF 2015: Darryl’s Best

November 27, 2015 // 2 Comments

by Darryl Lindberg Best room: High Water Sound To my way of thinking, the “best room” award must encompass not only the sound, but the overall environment. Is this [...]