McGary Audio SA-1 Stereo Amplifier Review
One of the fun aspects of reviewing gear from small start-up companies is getting to know the owner/proprietor, who is also usually the designer and builder of the piece of [...]
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AXPONA 2018: Nick Doshi Builds a Time Machine
A few months before AXPONA, Nick Doshi of Doshi Audio showed up at The Audio Company, a superb local hi-fi store in Marietta, Georgia. The program was to show local [...]
AXPONA 2018: VPI Fatboy dances with Gershman and VAC
Originally spotted in Munich at the High End Show, we’ve been anxiously waiting to hear the VPI Fatboy tonearm. VPI dropped the Fatboy details before AXPONA in a press [...]
Far Corners finds Hot Treasures: Svecheniye 12AX7 Vacuum Tubes
By Modest I. Predlozheniye It is easy to get caught up in the latest trends in audio, especially when you travel the world as I do. I see a lot of new technology applied to [...]
AXPONA2016: Mobile Fidelity gets closer to the master tape than ever before with UD1-S LP pressing
Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs just can’t stay still. They’re always looking into how they can improve an aspect of their products, or their users end experience, or [...]
Peter Qvortrup talks three-motor turntables: Audio Note UK 2016, factory photos & new speakers
I had the rare opportunity recently to catch up with Audio Note UK head honcho, globetrotter, music lover, and hi fi-industry legend Peter Qvortrup, who graciously agreed to [...]
Review: Woo Audio WA5LE v2 vacuum tube headphone amplifier
Woo Audio offers a remarkably deep bench for those headphonistas interested in vacuum tube amplifiers. But when it comes to the 300b, arguably the finest audio tube the [...]
Review: Woo Audio WA22 headphone amplifier
I’m willing to put up with a lot of ugly in my audio – the various Nextel-painted Tannoy DMTs that have graced my living room attest to this – but my personal [...]
Review: Zesto Audio Bia 120
Adding Zest-o I first found the Bia 120 from Zesto Audio in, of all places, a Zesto Audio demo at an audio show. Crazy, right? Okay, maybe not, but that’s okay — [...]
Review: Cary DAC-100t Tube D/A Converter
By Brian Hunter The (Digital) Times They Are A Changin’ With the onslaught of technological change and market shift impacting traditional hi-fi, more established companies [...]