Deciding the Product of the Year Award for 2021 Last year was the first year we awarded a PTA Product of the Year. Last year’s winner–the Vimberg Amea loudspeakers from Germany—was chosen by me, Marc […]
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. […]
I’m not gonna tease any of the readers by making them wait (or skip to my conclusion), so I’ll say right up front: OH. MY. LAWD.™ I was in audiophile heaven from the minute I […]
The Best Integrated Amplifiers [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best integrated amplifiers that we, the PTA team, have heard.] PS Audio Sprout100 ($699 USD) We […]
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, […]
This is a story about that time I joined a cult (or maybe two). In this review I stand to gain nothing and lose everything by telling you how staggeringly capable the Audio by Van […]
Salk Signature Sound was showing off the new Exotica 3 ($11,995), wearing some different veneers over the last time I saw it at CAF. This is latest exotic permutation derived form the SEAS Exotica line, and […]
Jim Salk of Salk Signature Sound was showing some very fancy new loudspeakers at CAF this weekend, a prototype he’s calling Exotica 3. The name derives from the main driver in use, the X2-08 Exotic […]
There are a couple of “makers” in the high-end that command respect. Or that I just have respect for. Not like Aretha, though I suppose that fits, but more like fist-to-chest with a murmured “Res-speck” […]
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