Dave Thomas - Stereo Times

Audio Analogue Maestro Duecento Integrated Amp and Maestro CD Player

September 26, 2008

Audio Analogue Maestro Duecento Integrated Amp and Maestro CD Player Bellissimo! September 2008 On a trip to Paris a few years ago, I was in a taxi heading to theMusée d’Orsay when I commented [Read More]

Xavian Giulietta Loudspeakers

August 4, 2008

Xavian Giulietta Loudspeakers Elegance From The Czech Republic August 2008 Daniel Barnum is the owner of Half Note Audio, the U.S. distributor for an array of fine European high-end audio components such [Read More]

Stealth Audio Cables

April 15, 2008

Stealth Audio Cables Sonic Flavors For Every Taste April 2008 Back in May of 2007 I suffered a mild heart attack that forced me to spend a lot of time relaxing at home and [Read More]

Linn at Glenn Poor Chicago

August 8, 2007

Linn at Glenn Poor Chicago A Mid Summer’s Night Dream Kevin McCann and Kirk Townsend, the self-proclaimed “Maestro” and “Composer” (respectively) of Glenn Poor Chicago, are bona-fide purveyors of the good life. They believe [Read More]

The Vitus Audio SS-010 Integrated Amplifier

June 8, 2007

The Vitus Audio SS-010 Integrated Amplifier The Little Beast June 2007 I’ve grown accustomed to big beefy amps providing the muscle that flows through my music system. For years I called the huge [Read More]

Classé Audio CDP-102

November 2, 2006

Classé Audio CDP-102 A Universal Joy November 2006 For the past half-decade or so the Electrocompaniet EMC-1 CD player has been my main digital source for music playback. I’ve always admired the quality of [Read More]

The Escalante Design Fremont

April 21, 2006

The Escalante Design Fremont What More Could A Man Want April 2006 Should’ve kept them boxesWithout knowing it I have been a huge fan of the work of loudspeaker designer extraordinaire Tierry Budge for [Read More]

Luminance Audio KST-150 Power Amp

April 11, 2006

Luminance Audio KST-150 Power Amp A Beautiful Black Box April 2006 So you’re going to let it go out looking like that? I remember meeting Rick Schultz, the head honcho at Virtual Dynamics [Read More]

Argento Audio Serenity Cables

January 30, 2006

Argento Audio Serenity Cables A Reference Cable By Any Standard January 2006 A Stunning DebutDuring the 2004 CES, I came across what I thought was one of the most breathtaking looking and sounding set [Read More]

KAS Audio Cables

November 15, 2005

KAS Audio Cables A Real Contender November 2005 KAS Audio is a small manufacturer of high quality, hand-built audio speaker cables, powers cords and interconnects. Now that simple description probably identifies dozens of cable [Read More]