AXPONA 2017: Music From Another Room, Part 2
A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, proving again that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Axpona is to me an ensemble [...]
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AXPONA 2016: Gingko, Wells, Salk, DanaCable raise the curtain on affordable sound
Music lovers entering the Gingko Audio–Wells Audio–SalkSound room at AXPONA 2016 encountered a plethora of world premieres. Wells Audio introduced its Audio [...]
CanJam SoCal 2016: Wells Audio shows a triple threat
Wells Audio has some good marketing advisors — they’ve come crashing into the headphone market with some serious offerings, all scattered across a variety of [...]
CAF 2015: Best In Show
This was a surprise. The entire show. A surprise. And given that it seemed like it might not happen at all for a few months, the overall success was a stunner. Sound quality? [...]
CAF 2015: Seductive Salk brings out the Exotic, with DanaCable, LampizatOr, Wells Audio
I’m not sure what happened, but somewhere in the last couple of years, Salk Sound did something not just good but downright amazing. I like to think that in some small [...]
Newport 2015: LampizatOr, Salk Sound, Wells Audio, DanaCable, Gingko Audio
Some folks just get used to winning. The 1996 Yankees come to mind. Sure, ’97 was an off-year, but you just knew what was coming. Walking into this room felt a whole [...]
AXPONA 2015: Wells Audio
By Josh Emmons Truth be told, I am not deep enough into this whole high-end audio game to reliably tease out attributes from the front-end of a system. Yet even I have two [...]
CanJam SoCal 2015, Part 3: Amplification
By Lee Shelly Schiit Audio The first stop I made (pre- show!), was to the Schiit booth. When I got there, Jason Stoddard was fighting with his flagship system … no [...]
RMAF 2014: Staring into the Abyss
I got to meet Joe Skubinski of JPS Labs and Abyss Headphones at RMAF this year, which was fun after spending so much time this year with his flagship headphones, the Abyss [...]
RMAF 2014: DSA leads with TAD, VPI, Wells and Silver Circle
The Dynamic Sounds Associates (usually just DSA) were here at RMAF to show off their new line stage preamplifier, the Pre 1 ($16,500). This new preamp is cosmetically matched [...]