Dave Thomas - Stereo Times

Dynamic Design AE15 Spirit Digital AC cord

July 18, 2014

It’s been more than ten years since I last spent time with a cable from Dynamic Design, a Chicago-area based high-end audio cable products company. Since then the company may have undergone some [Read More]

AXPONA 2014

June 17, 2014

The 2014 AXPONA show took place April 25th thru 27that the Westin Hotel near O’Hare Airport in Chicago. I had been anxiously awaiting this year’s show after the success of last year’s first [Read More]

Graditech Lumi Speaker Cable and Kide Interconnect

April 18, 2014

Nicely Finnished! The high-end audio cable market has got to be the single [Read More]

Soundstring Cable Technologies Platinum Series Gen II Cables

March 18, 2014

Checking All the Boxes! The role of cables in the audio chain has surely evolved over the years. I still remember when for less than a buck a foot you could wire your entire [Read More]

CES 2014 Dave Thomas

February 2, 2014

advertiser Well, it finally happened. Every year that I plan to attend the Consumer Electronics Show and T.H.E. Show in Las Vegas, I always say a little prayer that the weather will cooperate [Read More]

Pass Labs XP-15 Phono Stage

October 10, 2013

When Only Magic Matters Like a lot of audiophiles I got to a place last year where I had become so enamored with computer audio that any device that I couldn’t control from the [Read More]

Black Moon Audio Fidelity One Loudspeaker

August 28, 2013

Doing The Windy City Proud The 2013 AXPONA show in Chicago was an exciting weekend for me personally for a number of reasons. First, it was a great opportunity to see some old friends, [Read More]

Avanti Audio Cables

August 8, 2013

On A Rocky Mountain High During some office downtime back in March, I was surfing the web, looking for hot tickets to see whatever jazz artists were performing in Chicago that weekend. [Read More]

Vitus Audio RD-100 DAC and RS-100 Stereo Amplifier

July 15, 2013

A Serious Reference Readers of my reviews over the past few years know that I have been particularly smitten with works of Hans-Ole Vitus the founder and chief designer of the components of [Read More]

CES 2004 Dave Thomas

May 4, 2013

2004 CES/T.H.E. Show Part 2 Dave Thomas (Sing to the tune of Elvis Presley’s Viva Las Vegas)“Multi-channel music gonna set my soulGonna set my soul on fireGot a whole lot of money that’s ready to [Read More]