AXPONA 2018: Lee’s Best of Show
I was really burned out from a long work week at nearby Northwestern University. I was so looking forward to AXPONA as the medicine to my working man blues. The only [...]
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AXPONA 2018: Quintessence and Musical Surroundings, a devotion to sound
A world within the show, a Quintessence Audio LTD exhibit only requires a few steps physically (none socially) to transport you to a wonderland of high-end audio toys. For [...]
AXPONA 2018: Quintessence Audio Rocks the House
I’ve been a fan of Audio Research for a while. It started back around 1990 with a trip to Lyric Hifi in New York City where I was lucky enough to find the legendary [...]
Pioneering speaker designer David Wilson dies
David Wilson may not have invented the high-end speaker, but his designs did much to define the category. Wilson’s Watt/Puppy, which began as a one-off project to help [...]
Precision in Provo: Wilson Audio WAMM Master Chronosonic
Uh oh. Something was really off. The Velvet Fog’s voice was all over the place. The sibilance was nasty. Next I know, I am standing next to a finely made miniature [...]
Wilson Audio Tunetot gets newborn pictures
Wilson Audio gave birth to its newest family member, the TuneTot loudspeaker on May 10th. We couldn’t wait to pay this beautiful baby a visit, so 24 hours after birth [...]
AXPONA 2018: Nick Doshi Builds a Time Machine
A few months before AXPONA, Nick Doshi of Doshi Audio showed up at The Audio Company, a superb local hi-fi store in Marietta, Georgia. The program was to show local [...]
First Listen: Wilson Audio Debuts the TuneTot Monitor
Back in late November when I toured the Wilson Audio factory in Provo, Utah, Daryl Wilson told me he had a special prototype he wanted me to see. But there was one condition, [...]
AXPONA 2018: Wilson and friends – 4 rooms, 4 delicious flavours….
Audiophiles can’t always agree on what tastes delicious. Maybe you like tubes, solid state, digital, or pure analog… 31 flavours can’t do it justice, but [...]
AXPONA 2018: Sunday morning coming down
It was dark, and it was cold, and the faint morning light seeping through a crack in the curtains of my hotel room was grey, and did nothing to prompt me to throw them back, [...]