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Today's Second Space episode had its genesis as I researched choices for a linear power supply for another project when I ran across the rather retro-looking Fosi Audio MC101 amplifier with Bluetooth connectivity. But the combination of its size, power rating, feature set, including its round, backlit VU meter, and modest ninety-nine dollar asking price... Read More »

Today’s episode, a revisit with a reimagined classic, venerated, amplifier, was spurred by a viewer’s seemingly innocent question. Quite simply, a long-time reader and viewer wanted to know if I still stood behind my unreserved recommendation of the Parasound Halo JC1+ amplifier. When I thought about it and realized that I hadn’t listened to them... Read More »

If you follow the channel, you will likely be familiar with my take on the superb Ideon Absolute digital suite of gear from Greece which dropped here with Episode 163, February 2024. But in January of 2024, Ideon announced that the remarkable Epsilon DAC had seen an upgrade and is now in production as the... Read More »

During the third week in June, 2024, I was invited to attend a limited press event in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event was sponsored by Monarch Systems, based in Englewood, CO, Siltech’s US Distributor, to introduce and promote the launch of Siltech’s new flagship line of cables, Master Crown. I reported on that event... Read More »

With Episode 181, “Siltech's Master Crown Cable,” from June 30th of 2024, I shared my experiences from the Master Crown cable introductory press event held in Santa Fe by Siltech’s US Distributor, Monarch Systems, just ten days earlier.   Today I want to share some of the most significant portions of a conversation I had... Read More »

It’s amazing how much things can change in just one short year…especially if you are driven. In Episode 138: A New Listening Room - From Scratch, which dropped just over a year ago on September 3rd, 2023, we focused on a brand new listening room, designed and constructed by my audio buddy of some two... Read More »

I am absolutely thrilled to bring you this conversation I had in Long Valley, NJ, on September 12, with loudspeaker design legend, Laurence Dickie. “Dic,” as he is known to his friends and colleagues, and I had a nice conversation about why he implemented his Reaction Cancelling Compliant Mounting of woofers, and how that allows... Read More »

Last week we took a behind-the-scenes, in-depth tour of the YG Acoustics manufacturing facility in Arvada, Colorado by YG’s Marketing Director, Duncan Taylor. Today, we have another special treat, as I present my conversation with Dr. Matthew Webster, YG’s CEO, and chief designer. He systematically applies computational modeling and simulation to take YG’s designs even... Read More »

Today we start phase two of my recent trip to Denver with a tour of the YG Acoustics Factory conducted by their Marketing Manager, Duncan Taylor. Follow Duncan as he guides us through this amazing state-of-the-art American loudspeaker manufacturing facility. One correction! At about 35 seconds in, I mistakenly say that Arvada is just northeast... Read More »

Last week with E189, we got a guided tour of the monstrously large Boulder Amplifier facility in Louisville, Colorado. Today, we’ll hear a conversation that I had with Logan Rosencranz, Boulder’s International Sales Manager, who conducted last week’s splendid tour, and Kenzo Horiuchi, their sales coordinator. We’ll also get to listen to some recordings made... Read More »

Last week, I spent two days in the Denver, CO area, and was able to tour and visit both YG Acoustics and Boulder Amplifiers… Today, Boulder Amplifiers International Sales Manager, Logan Rosencranz, takes us through their 29,000 square-foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in the Colorado Technology Center industrial park in Louisville, Colorado.

Back in November 2020, I reviewed the new Silversmith ribbon speaker cables, the first product Jeff Smith, of Silversmith Cables, had brought to market using the proprietary thin ribbon foil material he calls “Fidelium. Today I’m introducing an unbelievably affordable, yet world-class, interconnect, the new Silversmith Audio Fidelium balanced interconnect! Check these cables out…

Today I’ll take you on a guided tour of DS Audio Grand Master Optical Phono Cartridge system. That’s right. I said optical phono cartridge. No magnets, no coils, no induction-generated signals. A mechanical transduction system that uses light to regenerate your LPs audio signal, and as a consequence, is considerably less massive, or lighter, as... Read More »

Today Bill Parish and I discuss the relevant takeaways from my four days spent in the Big Room at GTT Audio, with the focus on what must be seen as a new summit, and unparalleled accomplishment in loudspeaker design, Laurence Dickie’s new Vivid Audio Moya M1. Much as he had done with the introduction of... Read More »

Today we explore the Master Fidelity NADAC C master clock and the NADAC D DAC. These products represent a completely new approach to rendering digital music. You will not only get an overview of what the Master Fidelity products do so vastly differently from any other products available today, but we also discuss what that... Read More »

Today we are going to take a closer look at ways to demagnetize your Moving Coil phono cartridge and discuss the pros, and possible cons, of doing so. Before we get into why a moving coil may need to be demagnetized occasionally, let’s look at how the moving coil variety of phono cartridges works.

In episode 148, I shared my remarkable recent experiences with the simply splendid stylus and record care products from the LAST Factory, in Livermore California. The name LAST is an acronym for Liquid Archival Sound Treatment. I first came upon and used the LAST products back in the 1980s There were two stylus formulations, one... Read More »

I admit to having been hard-smitten from my very first exposure to the Supreme Series of electronics from Greece’s True Life Audio, the SSP-1 dual mono linestage, and the SSA-350 hybrid monoblocks, in the fall of 2022 True Life Audio, of Athens, Greece, was founded by Velissarios Georgiadis in 1995. His father, Aristomenis, had been... Read More »

Siltech, the Dutch company that manufactures high-end audio cables, electronics, and loudspeakers, known for its focus on advanced materials, design, and testing techniques, recently launched a new, flagship series of audio cables called Master Crown. As with everything they do, the launch would be a first-class event. With the help of US Siltech distributor, Monarch... Read More »