yg – Part-Time Audiophile

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

May 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

AXPONA 2017: Kii Audio Is Under Your Thumb

April 29, 2017 // 1 Comment

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. [...]

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

August 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Newport 2016: MSB Technology

June 21, 2016 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

RMAF 2015: Jeff Rowland puts it altogether

November 13, 2015 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

RMAF 2015: It’s always sunny at PS Audio

October 5, 2015 // 4 Comments

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 [...]

RMAF 2014: AURALiC Dresses to Impress

October 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

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

September 4, 2014 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

AXPONA 2014: YG, Audionet and Kronos

May 9, 2014 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

CES 2014: What’s Up?

January 7, 2014 // 3 Comments

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 [...]