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Today, we will make virtual visits to three more rooms from High End Munich 2024, starting with the large, corner room suite occupied by Cyprus’s Aries Cerat on Atrium 4.1, in E111 As I entered the room, and was first overwhelmed at both the aesthetic and scale of the system in this large open space,... Read More »

Today, we will make virtual visits to three more rooms from High End Munich 2024, starting with the room partnered by the Valve Amplification Company and Von Schweikert Audio on Atrium 4.2 in E217. If you’ve followed my writing over the decades, you will know that I hold both of these companies in the highest... Read More »

Today, we will make virtual visits to three more rooms from High End Munich 2024, including several featuring particularly important world premier product launches. I’ll start with the room partnered by Kronos, WADAX, Pilium, and Göble, on Atrium 4.1 in E115. This system was simply glorious sounding.

Those of you who follow my written work will be aware that in September of 2022, I was invited to Rhapsody Audio in Brooklyn to get a personal taste of the Alsyvox Botticelli X loudspeaker experience. This year at the MOC, I got to hear the new Alsyvox Caravaggio XX on Atrium 4.2, in E214.... Read More »

Today we will take virtual tours of, and get a sample listen to, what were in my opinion, among the most significant product launches at this year’s High End Munich, planet Earth's largest, most significant audio show. Interestingly, four of these manufacturers were showing together, sharing an exceptional system in Cabin K16 on the floor... Read More »

Well, I’m back in the Midwest after a whirlwind week in Munich. Well, almost a week. Weather delays out of Chicago cost me a full day’s delay… But what an amazing show! SO MANY product launches, so many friends, and entirely too little time… Whenever I talk about the Munich show, among the most often... Read More »

I wonder how many of you watching realize or give any thought to, what an amazing time it is to be a music-loving audiophile. Allow me a short rant to make today’s content even more relevant. When I first fell under the inescapable spell music cast over me, it was the very early 1960s. In... Read More »

Today we will visit one of the five most authentically musical and emotionally engaging systems I heard at this year’s tenth Audio Expo North America, held Friday, April 12th through Sunday, April 14th at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center for the fifth time. This was the first of my Top Five rooms that... Read More »

This most recent AXPONA – which is an acronym made from Audio eXPO NOrth America, was held Friday, April 12th through Sunday, April 14th, marking its fifth occurrence at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center. As you watch this walk-through video I took on Sunday morning, I’ll share with you that I have had... Read More »

Today I’m going to bring you the fourth and final of my top five rooms videos from the Southwest Audiofest. Today, we’ll visit the enormous Carpenter Ballroom, sponsored by Acora Acoustics and VAC, the Valve Amplification Company. Why am I presenting only four of my Top Five rooms? First, as I’ve already covered three of... Read More »

This week, while I’ll be enjoying the final day of AXPONA 2024 when this episode initially drops, I wanted to share something particularly remarkable with you. As mentioned in Episode 166, on Easter morning I left for a three-day visit in Montreal, Canada, where I got to spend three days with Louis Desjardins of KRONOS... Read More »

This week, we’ll take a look at and listen to the Cooper Room, as it was set up at the Anatole Hilton during the first Southwest Audio Fest. This room was sponsored by JMF Audio of France, their US importer, Audio Skies of Los Angeles, and Von Schweikert Audio of Riverside, California.

Last week, I took some extra time to familiarize you with the absolutely amazing venue that hosted the inaugural Southwest Audio Fest before sharing one of the Top Five performing rooms there. Today we are going to visit room 1422, hosted by Genesis Advanced Technologies, manufactured in Woodinville, Washington, a room where I got to... Read More »

Before I get to the meat of today’s discussion, permit me to share a little history of LP cleaning so that you have some context and perspective. Back in the 1960s, as I was first exploring and learning about the world of seven-inch, 45 RPM single and twelve-inch, 33 RPM LP playback, the cleaning and... Read More »

I wonder how many of you are aware of just what an amazing time it is to be a music-loving audiophile. Not only are we currently experiencing the most rapid and significant advances to the authenticity of sound regenerated by the electronics and loudspeakers used for the playback of recorded music, as well as witnessing... Read More »

Anyone who knows me, has followed my writing over the decades, or this channel since its inception, will be well aware of my love for the work of one of the most revered and celebrated classical composers, Ludwig van Beethoven. His Ninth Symphony is widely regarded by critics and musicologists as not only a masterpiece... Read More »

There can be no question that my first exposure to the Mola Mola Lupe phono stage in April of last year left me more than merely impressed. In fact, you can see my initial reaction to this remarkable phono preamplifier on Bill Parish’s GTT Audio YouTube Channel, in his Episode 78, or my Episode 115,... Read More »

My first exposure to the $280,000-a-pair Børresen M3 loudspeakers came last April at AXPONA 2023 in Schaumburg, Illinois. Hearing them there, driven by the flagship Aavik C-880 linestage and P-880 amplifier, $70,000 each, and a full loom of Ansuz flagship cabling left me more than merely impressed. They presented with an infectious degree of quickness,... Read More »