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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 »

Today I’m highlighting the remarkable sonic achievements of room 1401, as sponsored by 3mA, a Houston retail establishment, United Home Audio, and High End by Oz. The utterly synergistic presentation of this system was utterly captivating. Upper-frequency extension was seemingly effortless and unrestricted in a way very difficult to describe more accurately, and in a... Read More »

Well, it’s that of year time again… We are in the throes of the 2024 US, and international, show season. Today I outline what is coming over the next two months, and share one of the most unusual, but amazing, system tweaks! Check it out.

It was with Rush’s eighth studio release, 1981's “Moving Pictures,” recorded at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec in October and November of 1980, that the band stretched to a new pinnacle, delivering an album widely regarded as not only their best effort but one often referred to as one of the greatest progressive/rock/metal albums of... Read More »

If you’ve followed the channel, you’ll be aware that the TLA Supreme Series products, the $67,000 SSA-1 linestage, and a $100,700 a pair SSP-350 monoblocks, landed in my system last May, and not only have they swept me away with their noteworthy combination of grace and control, but they have become my de facto reference... Read More »

Today we take a close look at the synergies leveraged when using this entire suite of the exceptional Ideon Absolute series, the Stream Server/Streamer, the Time Master Clock, and the Epsilon DAC, as they were designed and intended to be enjoyed, as one complementary collection. Be prepared to be impressed, because I was blown away... 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 »

Today I’m sharing my last visit to one of the most exceptional rooms at Capital Audiofest 2023. Of course, I’m talking about the Potomac room, which is the annual home to the Audio Company of Marrietta, Georgia, the Valve Amplification Company of Sarasota, Florida, and Von Schweikert Audio, of Riverside, California.

Welcome to the first episode of the new year, 2024. Today we are going to visit a room Capital Audiofest 2023 that, as well as being as radically different from systems that would normally garner my interest, is just too bloody engaging and authentic to ignore. Meet Rich Pinto and Treehaus Audiolab…

Today I am sharing the remarkable journey of growth and discovery that this past year 2023, has turned out to be for the channel. This just may prove to be the most amazing single year of audio adventure in my over five decades-long voyage through the world of high-performance audio yet.

Today we will take a look at just who and what Audio Group Denmark is, and get a close look at, and brief listen to, the two systems that AGD presented in the Jefferson room at Capital Audiofest 2023. These two systems represent what is possible with each extreme of the widely diverse spectrum of... Read More »