Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2016, Part The Second David W. Robinson Gather around, audiosports fans! It's that time of year again…Positive Feedback's Brutus Awards season. Here is 'Part The Second' of Robinson's Brutus Awards 2016. Part The First can be found...
Impressions: The Pacific Audio Fest 2022, a Photo Essay, and my Audio Oasis! Awards, Part the First [updated 09/04/2022] David W. Robinson Robinson reflecting… (portrait by John Robinson; image processing by Ye Olde Editor) Prologue… At long last, after 2.5 years of pandemic interruption and scheduling conflicts, I was finally able to...
Impressions: The Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable, Durand Tosca Tonearm, and DS Audio DS Master 1 Optical Cartridge and EQ/Phono Amp with the DS Audio ION-001 David W. Robinson At RMAF, evening cigars, Denver, CO, 2019 (photograph by Scott Hull; image processing by David W. Robinson) When you do a lot of audio reviewing and show-going over several decades,...
The New Apartment Lounge: Smooth Sailing with the Pear Audio Blue Kid Howard Turntable and Cornet 2 Tonearm Maurice Jeffries ...Olde Editor's (David Robinson) thoughtful discussion of the pricier Kid Thomas model that he reviewed last year (HERE). Can We Dance with Your Dates? During the several months that I...
Impressions: THE Show Newport Beach 2016, Part 1, My Audio Oasis! Awards David W. Robinson ...to the exceptional rooms, then. In no particular order, and with some summary notes… GTT Audio/Alma Audio/Audionet/YG Acoustics/KRONOS/Kubala-Sosna No surprise here at all. Bill Parish, Joe Kubala, and Dick...
Impressions: Robinson's Audio Oasis! Awards for THE Show Newport Beach 2014 David W. Robinson ...MAX monoblocks, the PAM G2 phono amp with EPC Enhanced Power Supply. Sources included the KRONOS Limited Edition turntable with KRONOS Black Beauty tonearm, linked by Kubla-Sosna Elation! cabling. The...
Impressions: My Audio Oasis! Awards for THE Show Newport Beach 2015 David W. Robinson ...exceed this year's experience with mo' bettah! next year. Laissez les bon temps roulez! [All photographs by David W. Robinson, except the portrait above, which is by John W. Robinson]...
Impressions: A Reference System from TIDAL Audio David W. Robinson ...pairs of playback technologies at that time. On the turntable side, we had the KRONOS Pro LE and the Wave Kinetics NVS systems. With the KRONOS Pro LE combo, the...
The New Apartment Lounge: Mola Mola's Grooving Tambaqui DAC Maurice Jeffries ...with Roon-friendly streaming services like Tidal and Qobuz an utter snap. For an earlier take on this remarkable unit, please check out our own Dr. David Robinson's detailed impressions HERE....
The "New" AXPONA? Maurice Jeffries ...here, with especially fine showings from VPI and Kronos (I counted at least five Kronos tables at the show, and at least as many VPIs, if not more). TW Acustic...
My Audio Oasis! Awards for AXPONA 2023: Chunklet the First David W. Robinson E-in-C Robinson enjoying cigars rooftop-style near the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret). Tiberias, Israel, 2022. (Photograph by John Robinson; image processing by the elder Robinson.) As I have been doing...
Impressions: My Audio Oasis! Awards from AXPONA 2019 - Part the First David W. Robinson With assistance on room lists from PF Senior Editor Myles Astor David W. Robinson, Munich 2018 (photograph by Wojtek Pacula) A glance backwards, and AXPONA 2019 fades into history. It's...
Impressions: The Audionet STERN Preamp and HEISENBERG Monoblock Amp, Finale David W. Robinson ...analog front end had the KRONOS SCPS power supply added to the KRONOS mix…a clear step forward. And Kubala-Sosna's new top-o'-the-heap cables, the Realization line, was the strap-together. (The Realization...
The 19th Annual Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards for 2022 Editors at Positive Feedback ...system, I wouldn't pass it up. Read more HERE Greg Weaver The KRONOS Discovery Resonance Suppression Tonearm, $24,000 Advancing upon the technologies KRONOS founder and designer Louis Desjardins developed to...
Now Playing - Part 1 Greg Weaver ...by David W. Robinson. Our Editor-In-Chief, my esteemed friend and colleague, Dr. David W. Robinson, called me one evening in response to one of those Facebook postings. He had two...
Impressions: My RMAF 2015 Show Report, Conclusion...the Audio Oasis! Awards David W. Robinson ...no particular order, include: GTT Audio/Audionet/YG Acoustics/Kubala-Sosna/KRONOS Another year of really righteous sound from Bill Parish, Joe Kubala, Dick Diamond, and company. This team really has their room down to...
Impressions: The Pear Audio Blue Kid Thomas Turntable/Cornet 2 Tonearm System David W. Robinson ...KRONOS Pro LE, Standard Power Supply edition), and was finishing up reviews of both the NVS (see Issue 87) and the KRONOS Pro LE Standard edition (see elsewhere in Issue...
Impressions: The Stillpoints ESS Reference Rack System David W. Robinson ...of the superlative KRONOS turntable system allowed me to dust off my old oversized Black Diamond Racing shelf for stability, which I placed on the Ultra V Isolation Feet on...
Winter Road Trip: Getting to Know Audionet's Max Monoblock Amps, the Stunning GamuT Zodiac Loudspeakers, and Other Goodies Chez Greg Weaver Maurice Jeffries ...some priceless face time with Audionet's Max monoblock amps, the stunning GamuT Zodiac loudspeakers, Greg's stellar Kronos Sparta turntable, and a gaggle of other goodies, I resolved to take him...