Florida 2024
Woo Audio | FLAX 2024
Right before Brian Hunter and I walked into the Woo Audio room at the 2024 Florida International Audio Expo, I turned to him and said, “Of course we should go in–after all, I used to […]
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Florida 2024
2024 FLAX Friday Highlights | 2024 FLAX
The 2024 FLAX Friday Highlights represent, of course, the beginning of the high-end audio show season, and with a busted tailbone and a fistful of Advil this intrepid reporter ventured out into the hallways of […]
Buyers Guide
2024’s Best Headphone Gear | Buyers Guide 2024
Welcome to 2024’s Best Headphone Gear from the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide. We’re not saying that this is the “best” headphone gear or that these choices somehow overrule anyone else’s favorites. We’re saying that these […]
Buyers Guide
The Best Headphones | Buyers Guide Summer 2022
Welcome to the Best Headphones and Gear section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]
Buyers Guide
The Best Headphones and Gear | Buyers Guide 2022
Welcome to the Best Headphones and Gear section of the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2022. The Guide is more than “We heartily endorse this [fill in the blank ].” This collection represents our enthusiasm. Every […]
Buyers Guide
The Best Headphones, IEMs and Headphone Amps | Buyers Guide Summer 2021
The Best Headphones [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for Summer 2021! These are the best headphones and headphone amps that we, the PTA team, have heard.] In-Ear Monitors (IEM) 1MORE Triple […]
Buyers Guide
The Best Headphones, IEMs and Headphone Amplifiers | Buyers Guide 2021
The Best Headphones [Editor’s note: Welcome to the Part-Time Audiophile Buyers Guide for 2021! This year we decided to mix it up a little by breaking up the Buyers Guide into sections, which makes it […]
THE Show 2019
Dragonfire Acoustics, Woo Audio, Tweak Studio, MAGLEV, Kimber Kable, MiniDSP | T.H.E. SHOW 2019
LOS ANGELES (PTA) — Dragonfire Acoustics, along with Woo Audio, MAGLEV Audio, and Tweak Studio show off a diminutive sized, but powerful sounding DFA 2.1 loudspeaker system. The Story The Dragonfire Acoustics (DFA) 2.1 loudspeaker […]
AXPONA 2018
AXPONA 2018: Kimber Kable and Woo Audio at The Club Lounge
A sprawling, hip, and peaceful retreat away from the hustle and bustle of the expo hall, the brilliant minds at Kimber Kable and Woo Audio have a taken advantage of the Renaissances’ towering architecture. If […]
CAF 2017
Capital Audiofest 2017: Woo Audio, Abyss Headphones an unrivaled vehicle of truth
The Story When listening to music through headphones I do not feel like a spectator, I feel like one of the musicians. This feeling of being on stage and part of the performance takes me […]
Audio-Life
Dr’s Orders: Push it to the limit
A good Dr. should never insist on having his patients pushing themselves to the limit but this is audio and the limit of what is possible is a good thing with only one major hiccup, […]
RMAF 2016
RMAF 2016: Lee at the End of Line and Best in Show
I approached this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest with a strange mix of excitement and trepidation. The long-time venue of the Denver Tech Center Marriott was in the midst of significant construction which literally shut […]
RMAF 2016
RMAF 2016: Abyss and Woo Audio, with Mytek
Scot had me covering several CanJam titles but one of the best headphone rigs was outside of the tent in the Tower at the Marriott. Here I found Joe Skubinski’s Abyss Headphones paired with the Woo […]
Headphones
Ultimate Electrostatic: Woo Audio WES and Stax SR-009
I’ve been spending a lot of time with personal audio systems of late, portable and not-portable alike. Even as I wandered the paths of dynamic and planar, in-ear and over-ear, a bogie remained on the […]
AXPONA 2016
AXPONA 2016: Ear Gear eXpo (Plus) Roundup
The Ear Gear eXpo at AXPONA followed quickly on the heels of the all-headphone extravaganza of Head-Fi’s CanJam SoCal, which made double-coverage tricky and somewhat problematic — an issue I “solved” by giving some admittedly […]
CanJam SoCal 2016
CanJam SoCal 2016: Portable tubes with Woo Audio
Woo Audio, purveyor of fine tubed gear for the discerning head-fi’er, have finalized their portable — the WA8 Eclipse ($1,619 Black or Sliver, $1,709 Gold — but note that these are intro prices, which will […]
Awards
Best of 2015 and Product of the Year
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
Under $400 Holiday Buyer’s Guide Part 1: Headphones and Speakers
Welcome to your completely unnecessary and wholly unsolicited Part-Time Audiophile guide to the holidays, Part 1 of a bazillion. You’re welcome. Headphones This category is something of a cheat — there’s quite a lot of “portable/personal […]
Announcements
Black Friday Discounts!
Black Friday is upon us again. And once again, we have deals. I say, we have deals! [I’ll update this as they come in] Woo Audio is offering 10% off of everything, with free shipping, […]
Announcements
What’s Next/Coming Soon
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 […]