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chicago-axpona-2018 Part 2: Thomas and Wright

May 17, 2018

Dave Thomas Reflects My feelings about high-end audio shows over the last five years have more resembled a typical relationship breakup; increasing disinterest followed by acerbic apathy. Think I’m kidding? Just go back and read [Read More]

Chicago AXPONA 2018

May 2, 2018

AXPONA Audio Expo North America April 13 – 15, 2018 Schaumburg, IL For the past couple of years, getting to Axpona via car has been a relatively straight-forward and mildly pleasant/relaxing experience. Total drive time [Read More]

Chicago AXPONA 2018 Page 2

May 2, 2018

Page 2 AXPONA Audio Expo North America April 13 – 15, 2018 Schaumburg, IL Aurender and GamuTAurender W20 with MQA Core Decode ($17,600), Berkley Audio Design Alpha DAC Reference Series 2 MQA ($19,995), GamuT RS3i [Read More]

MW 2017a

January 24, 2018

CH Precision C1 DAC ($37,500), D1 Disc Player ($38,000) and X1 External Power Supply ($20,500): This combo possesses an uncanny ability to convey music with transparency, resolution with tons of detail, and yet it is natural sounding. CH Precision is the [Read More]

MW 2017b

January 24, 2018

Acoustic Revive Absolute FM interconnects ($6,500 per meter), Power Reference AC cables ($2,500 per meter and SPC-Triple C speaker cables ($5,500 per eight foot): Super delicate in its delivery and ultra-transparent in its mid-band, we’ve concluded in only 300 hours, that [Read More]

Chicago AXPONA 2018

January 1, 2018

chicago-axpona-2018: Mike Wright

January 1, 2018

High End 2018! The CP Report

January 1, 2018

RMAF 2017 Page 5

October 13, 2017

Art Manzano, US importer of Axiss Audio created great synergy when he paired the new Air Tight ATM-3211 mono amplifiers ($72k – 120 watts per channel) with these eye-catching Piega Master Line Source 2’s. The [Read More]

RMAF 2017 page 2

October 12, 2017

The NOLA Box S2 monitors at $1995, driven by a VAC amplifier really kept me seated in this wonderful sounding suite.   Unfortunately, there was lots of traffic in the Wyred4Sound suite that prevented me [Read More]