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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 »

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 »