It seems like lately, I’ve been reconsidering some past held audio prejudices. For one, I have started to re-evaluate low power amps and what they are capable of. Two, I am understanding in more detail […]
Any time, any Transfiguration Low Output Moving Coil (LOMC) cartridge is perched on the end of a tonearm, and dragging it’s nail head through a filthy trough of vinyl grooves, I get a little excited. […]
Wilson Benesch is becoming a personal favorite; year after year they provide fantastic performance with both solid state and tube amplification. This time around the smaller Discovery II speaker amazed with its imaging, detailed sound […]
Luke Skywalker: She’s rich. Han Solo: Rich? Luke Skywalker: Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be… Han Solo: What? Luke Skywalker: Well, more wealth than you can imagine! Han […]
2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, everyone is gone, and WTF […]
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 […]
It was the best of times. It was the not-best-of-times. But whatever it was, and wherever it lies on the Arc of Interesting, 2014 saw some pretty amazing stuff and some truly inspiring stories, and […]
From the Merriam Webster Dictionary: Egoist: noun \-gə-wist, -gō-ist\, 1: a believer in egoism. 2: an egocentric or egotistic person Do you consider yourself as one? In audio terms, do you like listening to music […]
Electrostatic headphones are something of an elusive beast; I don’t think I’d ever had the chance to even listen to a pair of Stax, for example, until just a few months ago at RMAF 2013. […]
The show guide labelled two rooms down at the end of the hall as “Profundo,” the trade name for Bob Clark’s import business. That wasn’t entirely accurate. The room all the way at the end […]
Looks like I screwed this one up, and a repost is the only way to fix that. My apologies to all concerned! Stay tuned ….
Seeing the $9,500 Egoista headphone amplifier from Viva Audio in the coverage of High End 2014, certainly piqued my interest. That’s an enormous investment in a headphone fidelity! Turns out, it’s also an enormous amplifier. […]
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis Listening through headphones is being a tad egoistic, at least that’s what the guys at Viva Audio think, so they named their new headphone amplifier “Egoista”. The Italian made tube amp, […]
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