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Impressions: Select Portraits and Studies from the Munich Show 2018

You may have noticed a trend over the years in my response to high-end audio shows. I've gravitated more and more to photographs not of products, but of people. Less and less of audio porn; more and more of the folks who make up the slightly mad world of fine...

Papa's Got a Brand New Bag: AXPONA 2018

Maurice Jeffries

For 2018, AXPONA moved to a bigger, shinier, swankier venue, showed up with real attitude and renewed swagger, and hosted noticeably bigger crowds. The Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center, a ginormous, and ginormously over-the-top Bauhaus-influenced conference center, blessed with the amenities and exhibition capacity to handle a show the...

AXPONA 2018 Day 1: Crowds Set Records For Attendance

Myles B. Astor

I’ve been totally overwhelmed by the size of the show, and trying to cover all the rooms. Industry turnout today Friday was, as my Absolute Sound buddy Andre commented, "like RMAF, pre-renovation, only with far more consumer turnout." According to Liz Miller of JD Events, there were 162 rooms at...

Impressions: The Pear Audio Blue Kid Thomas Turntable/Cornet 2 Tonearm System

David W. Robinson

Image courtesy of Pear Audio Blue Damnation. Time is sand through the fingers, crap through the goose. Projects pile up, deadlines come and go, and the best intentions of rodents and humans crash and burn. Turntables. Tonearms. Cartridges. LPs. Reissues. New record companies. New pressing plants. A glory of riches,...

Winter Road Trip: Getting to Know Audionet's Max Monoblock Amps, the Stunning GamuT Zodiac Loudspeakers, and Other Goodies Chez Greg Weaver

Maurice Jeffries

Goin' Back to Indiana A few weeks ago, I boarded from Orlando a packed United Airlines flight bound for Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the first leg in a trip that would take me to Goshen, Indiana, the home of my good friend Greg Weaver. Many of you will know Greg through...

The New Apartment Lounge: Falling in Love with Focal′s Stunning Sopra No. 1 Loudspeakers (with matching stands)

Maurice Jeffries

Wooing the Parents with the Focal Sopra No. 1 Loudspeakers I encountered Focal's exceedingly fine Focal Sopra No. 1 compact loudspeakers for the first time at the 2017 AXPONA audio show in the Audio Plus Services suite. Their beautiful sound and stunning good looks literally took my breath away. Paired with...

The 14th Annual Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards for 2017

Editors at Positive Feedback

Beginning at the end of 2003, PF established its first annual awards for fine audio. The Brutus Award was established for the best that David Robinson and Dave Clark had heard in their own listening rooms during that year. You can think of it as our equivalent of an "Editors' Choice" award....

RMAF 2017 Photo Essay Part 2

Carol Clark

Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. AVM Audio, Music Direct. This room sounded great. Martin Logan Ltd., D'Agostino, Stromtrunk, AudioQuest. Fort Collins Audio featured some new products. Spendor A4 loudspeakers, Rega P6 turntable, Chord Hugo,...

Impressions: The GamuT Reference System, a Study in Organic Synergy

David W. Robinson

Sometimes you write reviews. Sometimes you write raves. And sometimes you write love songs… Introduction "Sherman, set the Way-Back Machine to THE Show Newport Beach Michael Vamos. I met him a few years ago at a THE Show at Newport Beach. He had just started his high-end audio distribution biz,...

Munich High End 2017 - The Greatest Audio Show on Earth?

Greg Weaver

Bavarian Spring My flight landed at Flughafen München in Munich, the Bavarian capital and third most populous city in Germany, exactly on time, mid-morning Wednesday, May 17th. After stretching, collecting my bag, changing some currency from US dollars to Euro's, and using a vending machine to buy a Day Travel...

Impressions: My Audio Oasis! Awards for AXPONA 2017

David W. Robinson

Chicago 2017 is now firmly in the rear-view mirror, O'Hare Airport and all. The show itself was a well attended event, with a just announced attendance of nearly seven thousand paid. According to show organizers, this was a 13% increase over 2016. From my standpoint, AXPONA 2017 was a busy show,...

AXPONA 2017: Pictures at an Audio Exhibition

Gary L Beard

Dateline: Westin Hotel, Rosemont, Ill., April 21-23rd, 2017 AXPONA! I get a serious kick out of listening to exotic, cost-no-object systems. In fact, I enjoy them so much, it's hard to tear myself away. Where reality and common sense meet, its clear I have little business in those rooms other than to experience some...

The "New" AXPONA?

Maurice Jeffries

Devices and Desires: The Best of the Best at AXPONA 2017 Without question, last weekend's AXPONA show (April 21-23) in Rosemont, Illinois ranks amongst the best sounding AXPONAs in recent memory. Not since the show's rebirth at the Doubletree by Hilton O'Hare in 2013 has the Chi-town cavalcade boasted such...

Impressions: A Reference System from TIDAL Audio

David W. Robinson

No. Not the streaming media service. Turns out, there's a major high-end audio company in Germany, TIDAL Audio, which is joining the ranks of world-class audio design. In fact, TIDAL Audio, founded in 1999 by Jorn Janczk with the stated intent of building the finest audio systems on the planet,...

Impressions: The Playback Designs Merlot Quad DSD DAC and Syrah Music Server, with Brief Notes on the Pinot Quad DSD ADC

David W. Robinson

So here I am again, returning to one of the touchstone companies for DSD and digital audio: Playback Designs. Am I surprised? Should anyone be surprised? Heck no. In fact, according to Andreas Koch, he and I first saw each other at the original DSD demonstration at Mobile Fidelity in...

Brief Impressions: The YG Acoustics Sonja XV Reference Loudspeaker, a Photo Essay

David W. Robinson

Funny thing. You'd think that there wouldn't be any enormous mountaintops in Newark, New Jersey. And you'd be wrong…. Let me explain. Bill Parish of GTT Audio A couple of months ago I got an invitation from Dick Diamond of YG Acoustics, Bill Parish of GTT Audio, and Joe Kubala...

YG Acoustics Sonja XV Speaker Launch

Marshall Nack

Select members of the audio press were invited to GTT Audio for the YG Acoustics Sonja XV speaker press event. Over the course of a week, each of us got to experience a personal listening session. Lynn and I were scheduled for the afternoon of the first day; Dr. David...

Impressions: THE Show Newport Beach 2016, Part 1, My Audio Oasis! Awards

David W. Robinson

Already! Already THE Show has come and gone! Where did June 9-12 go? The first post-Richard Beers event is in the books now, and the results are in. According to Maurice Jung, the new president of THE Show, and his staff, total attendance was nearly 10,400 over the four days....

Impressions: The Stillpoints ESS Reference Rack System

David W. Robinson

"Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose." William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure The Stillpoints ESS Reference Rack with Grid Shelves (image courtesy of Stillpoints) Fine audio reviewing can be great, with passion driving you through the work...

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Impressions: Select Portraits and Studies from the Munich Show 2018

Papa's Got a Brand New Bag: AXPONA 2018

AXPONA 2018 Day 1: Crowds Set Records For Attendance

Impressions: The Pear Audio Blue Kid Thomas Turntable/Cornet 2 Tonearm System

Winter Road Trip: Getting to Know Audionet's Max Monoblock Amps, the Stunning GamuT Zodiac Loudspeakers, and Other Goodies Chez Greg Weaver

The New Apartment Lounge: Falling in Love with Focal′s Stunning Sopra No. 1 Loudspeakers (with matching stands)

The 14th Annual Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards for 2017

RMAF 2017 Photo Essay Part 2

Impressions: The GamuT Reference System, a Study in Organic Synergy

Munich High End 2017 - The Greatest Audio Show on Earth?

Impressions: My Audio Oasis! Awards for AXPONA 2017

AXPONA 2017: Pictures at an Audio Exhibition

The "New" AXPONA?

Impressions: A Reference System from TIDAL Audio

Impressions: The Playback Designs Merlot Quad DSD DAC and Syrah Music Server, with Brief Notes on the Pinot Quad DSD ADC

Brief Impressions: The YG Acoustics Sonja XV Reference Loudspeaker, a Photo Essay

YG Acoustics Sonja XV Speaker Launch

Impressions: THE Show Newport Beach 2016, Part 1, My Audio Oasis! Awards

Impressions: The Stillpoints ESS Reference Rack System

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