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Cue exhibit C, marked as personal identification tag, allowing said member of the audio press to attend Denver's annual mile high HiFi show. "Your honor", says the defendant, "this is more proof that the industry is doing great!" Truth be told, I'd agree—advocate—that for some in the industry, the HiFi business is indeed booming. Let's call... Read More »

At last! The construction that plagued last year's Rocky Mountain Audiofest is history and the show is back to normal. Improved sleeping rooms. Much larger restaurant with the same amount of help. The same nice friendly staff. The Marriot's tower section packed with audio equipment of all shapes and sizes from the Mezzanine to the... Read More »

Brian Hunter of Audiohead volunteered to cover this for Positive Feedback as we could not make it... As always with Schiit Audio, good time was had. Schiit Audio's second live stream event (and IRL event) took place last Friday to address the company's newest 3 products the Magni 3, the Loki mini and a prototype... Read More »

Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. Thrax Audio, Symposium Acoustics, Sound Application, Antipodes, Weiss Engineering, Audio Den, Audio Limits. Acoustic Sounds, and the amplifiers are a custom-made gift to Sony from Nelson Pass. As always, the Daedalus Audio, WyWires, and... Read More »

Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. Schiit Audio and Salk Sound. Schiit Freya preamplifier. Schiit Vidar amplifiers. Great sounding room! Ryan R620 loudspeakers, Vincent Audio SA T7 preamplifier and SP 331 MK hybrid power amplifer, Aurender A10 music server, and... Read More »

Our coverage of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2017 continues. In this report, all photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark. Focal, Naim, Vicoustic, Audio Plus Services. ELAC had more than one room at the show, this one featured more affordable gear. Aurender had the A10 music server on hand along with Magnepan 3.7 loudspeakers,... Read More »

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, and Cardas Clear Beyond XL.... Read More »

For the past fourteen years Rocky Mountain Audio Fest happens each October. Usually Dave and I battle airports and uncomfortable flights, but this year we decided to drive. Two days driving, gorgeous scenery, and we arrived midday on Wednesday. Plenty of time for rest and relaxation before the show began on Friday. In this report,... Read More »

This year, for the first time in its history, the TAVES Consumer Electronics Show was moved to a non-hotel setting. The 2017 TAVES venue was the Toronto Congress Center in Etobicoke. This suited the organizers goal of transforming TAVES from a predominantly high-end audio show, to a true, all encompassing Consumer Electronics Show. This transition... Read More »

Passion, that one word sums it all up and answers many questions. Why collectively spend decades evolving a simple table radio into a complex collection of boxes and wires? Passion, to advance the state-of-the-art in home music reproduction chasing an absolute ideal of fidelity. Why spend hundreds of hours designing a product line of HiFi... Read More »

David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Positive Feedback. (Photograph by John Robinson) As time has gone by, I have become more and more interested in covering not only audio shows or events, but also the people there. And not as photojournalism, but as art. Real portraits made during the difficulties of audio show circumstances. Show reporting... Read More »

The Audio Engineering Shows in Europe are much smaller and more oriented toward papers than the trade show, which makes them a good opportunity to sit and talk with people actually doing real audio research. This year AES 2017 Berlin was no exception. The conference was held in a hotel on the former East German... Read More »

by Dave Mallette with assistance from Robert Schryer In 2014, a dozen of us from the Klipsch Community Internet forum held our first, the first, Forum-sponsored Klipsch Pilgrimage, at a motel in Hope, Arkansas, cradle of the Klipsch speaker company. It was an event intended to honor Klipsch and its founder, Paul Wilbur Klipsch (PWK),... Read More »

Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Five. ELAC. Stellar speakers for $6k a pair. MBL radialstrahler loudspeakers, new Noble Line stereo preamplifier, mono amplifier, and CD-DAC N31. Wireworld Eclipse Series 7 cabling. Perfect8, High End Zone, Ypsilon, Aurender. Rafe Arnott of Part-Time Audiophile checking the gear out. Perfect8 loudspeaker.... Read More »

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 Pass for Munich's extensive public... Read More »

Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Four. Musical Fidelity, Crystal Cable, Audio Plus Services. Musical Fidelity. A new look. Micromega, Focal, Audio Plus Services. Micromega, Focal, Audio Plus Services. Way cool. IsoAcoustics, SPL, XLO Cables, Audio Plus Services. IsoAcoustics, SPL, XLO Cables, Audio Plus Services. Ayon Audio Scorpio Gen... Read More »

Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Three. Channel Islands Audio had two passive line controllers, the PLC.1 MKII and the PEQ.1 MKII both with AC.15 MKII upgrade power supply. D.200 MKII monoblock amplifiers, DMC.1 MKII digital music console with VDC.5 MKII upgrade power supply. Transient MKII USB DAC, also... Read More »

Continuing on with our coverage of the Los Angeles Audio Show... Part Two. Elite Audio Systems, Viola Labs, Kharma International. Alma Music & Audio were showing Dan D'Dagostino Progression monoblock amplifiers, Audio Research REF 10 preamplifier, Linn Klimax DSM music server, Innuos Zen MkII music server, YG Acoustics Sonja 1.2 loudspeakers, Iso Tek power conditioners,... Read More »

This was the first time for this new show, also known as the LAAS. The venue moved from Orange County to LAX. This show report will feature a lot of pictures, and in some cases not much in the way of captions. Our goal here was to photograph as many rooms/exhibitors as possible (well over... Read More »