Douglas Seth Brown, Audio Reviewer

Toronto Audio Fest (TAF) 2025 Show Coverage, Part 1

Douglas Seth Brown — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:34:27 +0000

Friday, October 17 Oct - Sunday, October 19, 2025 For the 2025 Toronto Audio Fest, (herein referred to as TAF 2025), I'm going to provide two – count 'em…two – show reports. There were a lot of exhibitors at TAF 2025. So much so, that it will be easier to bring greater clarity and insight... Read More »

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Thoughts on Cleaning, Freezing, Polishing, and De-Magnetizing used CDs and SACDs

Douglas Seth Brown — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:11:27 +0000

For many modern music lovers, listening to songs from FM-radio stations in the car or streamed over computers at home from websites like You Tube is how they (er… we) discover new music. If you're lucky enough to have a Sirius-XM radio subscription or can afford to stream high-resolution digital music from various online providers,... Read More »

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Charisma Audio™ Caprisse Bookshelf Loudspeakers

Douglas Seth Brown — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:22:52 +0000

So you want to travel back in time to the mid-1970s to buy a brand new (back then) 1975-era pair of Quad ESL-57 loudspeakers. Okay… I get it. The primary difficulty, of course, is that all of your efforts to build a time machine out of a Delorean have failed; completely and utterly failed. Is... Read More »

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Toronto Audio Fest 2024

Douglas Seth Brown — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:47:35 +0000

Toronto Audio Fest Show Report, Friday, 18 October - Sunday 20 October 2024 Encouraging an audiophile with a cabling and equipment addiction to attend the 2024 Toronto Audio Fest, (herein referred to as TAF 2024), is like encouraging an alcoholic to fly to Scotland and take a three week tour of Scotch Whiskey distilleries. Such... Read More »

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McIntosh MC830 Solid-State Monoblock Amplifiers

Douglas Seth Brown — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:44:10 +0000

McIntosh MC830 Solid-State Amplifier (courtesy of McIntosh) McIntosh amplifiers are the type of ultra high-end audio components that cause fist fights at estate hearings. When the opportunity to review a pair of McIntosh's MC830 solid-state amplifiers, ($8000 per pair) arose, I was quite excited to begin listening. Product Description Each MC830 single channel amplifier is... Read More »

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The Furutech 1.2m Digiflux NCF 110 Ohm AES/EBU Digital Interconnect

Douglas Seth Brown — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:43:15 +0000

Sometimes reviewing high-end audio cables can feel like checking-in for an overbooked trans-Atlantic flight and being assigned the middle seat in economy class. Ohhh yeah… that torturous middle seat where you're stuffed in between the adjoining aisle seat and window seat. On your left, there'll assuredly be someone with scorching halitosis whom can't stop droning... Read More »

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Toronto Audio Fest 2023

Douglas Seth Brown — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:12:10 +0000

Toronto (pronounced: Tir-ran-Nah) is a Native Canadian word for "place of high taxation." It was also the city where TAF 2023 (the Toronto Audio Fest) was held at the Westin Toronto Airport Hotel from Friday 20 October to Sunday 22 October 2023. The Westin is located right next door to Hell…er, ehm…the Lester B. Pearson... Read More »

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Audio Sensibility Signature Special Edition A/C Power Cord: A Price-Performance Design!

Douglas Seth Brown — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:23:47 +0000

Image courtesy of Audio Sensibility I've been writing professional (i.e., paid) audio reviews for 12+ years. I've auditioned hundreds of different wires from audiophile cable companies and written dozens of power cord articles. For me to keep any A/C cable longer than a year or two, said cord must deliver either: a), state-of-the-art sound; or... Read More »

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