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AXPONA 2017: Not much scares YG Acoustics, Mola-Mola, Kubala-Sosna

May 9, 2017

For an audio manufacturer that has worked long and hard to craft equipment that sounds great under most normal listening conditions, taking that gear to an audio show can be as frightening as entering a spook house on Halloween. In a thunderstorn. [...]

AXPONA 2017: Kii Audio Is Under Your Thumb

April 29, 2017

He may not realize it but Bruno Putzeys had a VERY good show. I say this because I don’t believe Bruno was at AXPONA. But he had two intriguing systems at the show. One was a YG Acoustics system with Carmel 2 speakers and Bruno Putzeys [...]

Newport 2016: YG Acoustics, MSB put pedal to the metal

August 6, 2016

Every show has a couple of rooms that generate a particular buzz. After the first day at T.H.E. Show in Newport, the scoop being passed from audiophile to audiophile was “MSB and YG Acoustics — check it out.” The room wasn’t even on one [...]

Newport 2016: MSB Technology

June 21, 2016

Back at RMAF 2013, I got to experience the MSB Analog DAC. It was their entry level DAC priced at $6995. 2 minutes into listening, it was clear…. I wanted to hear more and more of it. I had never experienced digital reproduction that [...]

RMAF 2015: Jeff Rowland puts it altogether

November 13, 2015

There’s no mistaking Jeff Rowland Design Group products. For years they’ve sported his trademark impressively thick, artfully machined aluminum faceplates. But the units always have been more than audio jewelry, producing some of the best sound [...]

RMAF 2015: It’s always sunny at PS Audio

October 5, 2015

Bill Leebens, my good friend (who now also happens to be PS Audio‘s director of marketing), grabbed Darko and me by the collar and dragged us up the elevator to the spacious PS Audio demo room. I think it was 930, Friday morning. Something [...]

RMAF 2014: AURALiC Dresses to Impress

October 30, 2014

Theoretically, the thing that should matter most when it comes to a hifi system is the sound, right? Well, yes, obviously. But I would be lying if I said it was only the sound that mattered, and I’m not just talking Spousal Acceptance Factor. [...]

CAS 2014: Loggie Audio and YG Acoustics, metal-machine music

September 4, 2014

I’m always a bit suspicious of high-end speakers sporting cabinets that cost the designers a chunk of change to manufacture. You know, rare hardwoods, automobile-painted polymer resins, structural foam, even metal. The result usually is stunning [...]

AXPONA 2014: YG, Audionet and Kronos

May 9, 2014

I swung through this room just before breakdown, so I didn’t get to hear the new $42k/pair YG Acoustics Hailey loudspeakers. Those lucky enough to catch the action would have seen and heard a full collection of Audionet equipment driving them, [...]

CES 2014: What’s Up?

January 7, 2014

I’m not going to CES this year. Sorry. Couldn’t do it. It’s not that I didn’t want to go. I did (God help me), and still do! It’s a lot of fun, there’s a ton of new products, and I have a gazillion friends out [...]