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Florida 2019

Florida 2019: Suncoast Audio, AvantGarde, Viva Audio, Shunyata Research

March 3, 2019 Lee Scoggins 2

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 […]

Newport Beach 2016

Newport 2016: Funk Firm, and Transfiguration sing through Heed Audio

July 26, 2016 Rafe Arnott 1

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. […]

Munich 2016

High End 2016: Wilson Benesch with Viva play lovely together

July 4, 2016 Panagiotis Karavitis Comments Off on High End 2016: Wilson Benesch with Viva play lovely together

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 […]

Headphones

Review: Viva Audio Egoista 2A3 Headphone Amplifier

February 6, 2016 Scot Hull Comments Off on Review: Viva Audio Egoista 2A3 Headphone Amplifier

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 […]

Awards

Best of 2015 and Product of the Year

December 30, 2015 Editorial Staff 7

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 […]

Announcements

What’s Next/Coming Soon

November 18, 2015 Scot Hull 2

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 […]

Awards

Best of 2014 and The Product of the Year

December 31, 2014 Scot Hull 11

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 […]

Headphones

Review: Viva Audio Egoista headphone amplifier

October 25, 2014 Panagiotis Karavitis 4

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 […]

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Newport Beach 2014

Newport 2014: Affordable Audio presents KingSound and Wells Audio

June 15, 2014 Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney Comments Off on Newport 2014: Affordable Audio presents KingSound and Wells Audio

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. […]

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Newport Beach 2014

Newport 2014: A Trenner&Friedl double-take, with Blackbird Audio going Viva

June 14, 2014 Mal Kenney 2

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 […]

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Newport Beach 2014

Newport 2014: Whoops

June 13, 2014 Scot Hull 1

Looks like I screwed this one up, and a repost is the only way to fix that. My apologies to all concerned! Stay tuned ….

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Newport Beach 2014

Newport 2014: Viva Audio flies its big Egoista at Blackbird Audio

June 12, 2014 Scot Hull 4

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. […]

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Munich 2014

High End 2014: Are you an egoist? Viva Audio introduces cost-no-object headphone amplifier

May 27, 2014 Panagiotis Karavitis 3

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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