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LA Audio Show 2017: Wrap-Up and John Stancavage’s Best of Show

August 3, 2017

Audio shows can be a strange experience. No, I’m not talking about catching a frightening glimpse of yours truly, shakily down on all fours, getting a close-up photo of an XLR jack. I’m referring to sound. For reasons that still are a mystery to [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Vandersteen, Audio Research create enchanting sound

July 7, 2017

Whether they admit it or not, all audiophiles have biases. Some value tight, powerful bass above all else, for example, while others crave analog warmth and tube richness. I admit my personal bias is liquidity and refinement, Make no mistake, [...]

RMAF 2016: Vandersteen Doubles Down on Bass

December 8, 2016

Audio-show exhibitors love keeping the lights low. It creates a moody, exotic atmosphere. But for aging scribes like myself, it also presents challenges. The way I do not want to make an entrance is by tripping over a chair and getting the outline [...]

RMAF 2016: Intervention Records and Vandersteen 7s

December 1, 2016

For a record collector like me, lacquers of classic albums are a bit of a holy grail. Lacquers are the fragile pressings that are later used to make stampers which produce the final LP. Typically collectors pay hundred of dollars for these [...]

Newport 2016: Believe High Fidelity delivers with Aries Cerat and Vandersteen

July 28, 2016

Texas based Believe High Fidelity has been hittin’ the gym recently. They were pumping some iron, as they loaded the beautiful Aries Cerat Kassandra MK II Dac (60kg), Aries Cerat Diana Forte Stereo amp (132kg) and Aries Cerat Incito Pre-amp [...]

High End 2016: Brinkmann and Vandersteen and MQA

May 25, 2016

MQA is becoming a reality; the company has a new partner under Brinkmann Audio who despite being a world-class leader in turntable design has a history on digital audio as well with the “Zenith”, a DAC introduced back in 1986! In Munich they [...]

Newport 2015: Vandersteen, Basis Audio, Audio Research, Lyra

June 30, 2015

by Rafe Arnott The Vandersteen Model 7 MK II speakers ($62,000 US) are Stereophile ‘Class-A’ recommended, but at only 83.5 dB efficiency, they never really held much interest for me because I’m one of those people who loves SET [...]

RMAF 2014 Roundup, Part 4: Medium-Sized Rooms with Medium-Sized Speakers

October 27, 2014

by Darryl Lindberg High Water Sound: Hørning Hybrid Systems, TW-Acoustic, etc. What can I say that hasn’t already been said about Jeff Catalano’s show set-ups—or Jeff himself? As usual, Jeff wrung excellent sound from his set up, which, as [...]

High End 2014: A Spyder in the room! No, wait, it’s just a turntable

May 29, 2014

By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis And what a turntable. The belt driven Brinkmann Audio Spyder is a modular design that can be fitted with up to four tonearms. Underneath the 10Kgr aluminum and glass platter lays a specially designed pillar that can hold [...]

CES 2014: What’s Up?

January 7, 2014

I’m not going to CES this year. Sorry. Couldn’t do it. It’s not that I didn’t want to go. I did (God help me), and still do! It’s a lot of fun, there’s a ton of new products, and I have a gazillion friends out [...]