PAF 2022
High End by Oz | PAF 2022
The High End by Oz room at the 2022 Pacific Audio Fest was the very last room I visited before I hopped in my car and drove home. (With a pair of speakers, a two […]
United Home Audio
Announcements
The Best of Buyers Guide 2022
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. […]
Capital Audiofest 2021
Borresen, Thrax, Vitus, Ansuz, HifiStay, United Home Audio, HighEnd by Oz | CAF 2021
Borresen launches a new speaker with a special use for silver, Thrax slaps us across the face with three new serious pieces of electronics, Vitus Audio says “Hey, can I play?“, Ansuz Acoustics places a […]
Buyers Guide
The Best of The Buyers Guide 2021
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 Reel-to-Reel and Cassette | Buyers Guide 2021
The Best Reel-to-Reel and Cassette [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 […]
Occasional Podcast
TOP Reel to Reel Playback | The Occasional Podcast
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 6! This week on the Occasional Podcast, Reel to reel listening has been called the new vinyl and it also could be in smack-dab in the middle of its own […]
CAF 2019
Protected: United Home Audio, ESD Acoustics, Aesthetix | CAF 2019
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THE Show 2019
High End by Oz, United Home Audio, Vitus Audio, AudioSolutions, Ansuz Acoustics | T.H.E. SHOW 2019
LOS ANGELES (PTA) — High End by Oz and United Home Audio were hosting one of the few rooms with the real organic sound of reel-to-reel tape, and DC power. Along for the ride, AudioSolutions loudspeakers […]
Florida 2019
Florida 2019: MBL, United Home Audio, WireWorld
I think my listening notes speak to the quality of the MBL room in Tampa: “Speakers disappearing like Houdini.” “Vocals are realistic with a good amount of chestiness.” “Great illusion of real performers in a […]
Florida 2019
Florida 2019: Saturday with Paul
by Paul Elliott VPI Mat and Harry Weisfeld did not escape NJ to the sunny south, Marc Boyle was down repping VPI in a couple of rooms, so I asked Marc about the design philosophy. VPI […]
AXPONA 2018
AXPONA 2018: Thursday night bleeds through to Friday
The giant big-box stores, and insurance company headquarters were planted bleakly all around my horizon, and slid past the car windows like Soviet-era monoliths under the grey sky as the Uber I was taking […]
Awards
The Part-Time Audiophile guide to the best hi-fi gear of 2017
Picking the best audio component of the year is kind of like pondering your ultimate list of girls to ask to the high school prom. There are many very attractive choices, but probably a much […]
RMAF 2017
RMAF 2017: Best In Show
This year dawned with plenty of questions facing the high-end audio industry. The most pressing were: Would the U.S. economy hold up, allowing manufacturers and retailers to stay afloat? Would vinyl continue its revival, possibly […]
RMAF 2017
RMAF 2017: More audiophiles want to roll tape
When I started seeing reel-to-reel tape decks popping up at high-end shows a few years ago, I wrote it off as a novelty. Yes, good old vinyl was booming, but tape? Really? Then I heard […]
AXPONA 2017
AXPONA 2017: The Reel Deal
A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook I love trolling the physical format cat fights on Facebook. “Vinyl vs Digital – Bowl of Milk, Party of Two”: blah blah, yada yada. My favorite way to do […]
AXPONA 2016
AXPONA 2016: MBL redefines extreme
Even within the high-end, there is extreme and then there is really extreme. I’m talking about the seriously out-there, beyond-Pluto type of gear that makes the Robb Report look like a Walmart flyer. This can […]
Announcements
What’s Next/Coming Soon
Here we are, mid-November. It’s a glorious time to be alive. I say that with full acknowledgement of the “challenges”, which is a nice euphemism for “a can of worms I’m happy to open, but […]
RMAF 2012
RMAF12: United Home Audio brings the +5 Tape Deck of Awesomeness
I’ve had this argument before with United Home Audio‘s Greg Beron. Why “tape” — isn’t this just a pointless throwback? Totally redundant to good vinyl? I mean, seriously, why another analog source — isn’t everyone […]