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CES 2019: Tape and Digital | Nagra elevates our listening experience

January 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

Nagra‘s rooms are always on, and dialed to 11. They sneak up on you, and deliver a different something special each time. A must visit room at any audio show, Nagra always [...]

CES 2019: New VTL Phonostage sings with Lyra

January 14, 2019 // 2 Comments

Luke Manley and Bea Lam are two of the hardest working folks in the business. At every show, you can feel confident that VTL will have a room and its going to sounds [...]

D’Agostino Relentless Monoblock Amp | First Listen

December 21, 2018 // 2 Comments

Dan D’Agostino’s new reference Relentless Monoblock amplifier (website) weighs in at a record 570 pounds, can dance beautifully at 1 watt and will party all the way 6000 [...]

CAF 2018: VPI Industries, AudioShield, Krell, Wilson Audio, Soundsmith, Nordost; If more is better, too much is almost enough

December 19, 2018 // 1 Comment

VPI Industries was in direct control, AudioShield had the room well protected, Krell and Wilson Audio tango with reference style, Soundsmith and Lyra go head-to-head, [...]

Wilson Audio Sasha DAW with dCS Bartók DAC | First Listen

November 11, 2018 // 4 Comments

Brian Berdan, owner of Audio Element in Pasadena California grew up in a household filled with music, his late father was a well known hi-fi dealer, so I can suspect that [...]

CAF 2018: Must See Rooms, Friday

November 3, 2018 // 2 Comments

There are over 1,000,000 brands exhibiting here at Capital Audiofest … okay, okay, — I don’t know how many brands exactly, but it does seem like a [...]

Wilson Audio Sasha DAW | First Look

October 25, 2018 // 9 Comments

It was a once in a lifetime experience about 1.5 years ago when I got to sit alongside David Wilson in his inspiring listening room and hear the WAMM Master Chronosonic. I [...]

It Must Be Sunday, For I’m Hearing Mass

September 21, 2018 // 3 Comments

By Gautam Raja For a while, I was one of those (arguably) necessary but infuriating elements of high-end audio: the “informed” consumer. You know, the guys who read forum [...]

AXPONA 2018: Lee’s Best of Show

June 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

AXPONA 2018: Quintessence and Musical Surroundings, a devotion to sound

June 10, 2018 // 2 Comments

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 [...]