New York Audio Show 2018
NY Audio Show 2018: The Rooms (Part 1)
I’m going to present my NY Audio Show coverage in the order I moved around the show—namely, I started at the top, Floor 9, and worked my way down. Enjoy!
Month: November 2018
Letters
Letters to the Editor: Welcome Back…
The word is getting out about Twittering Machines in part thanks to my friends John Darko, Darko.Audio, and Scot Hull, Part-Time Audiophile, who have generously mentioned / linked to TM on their sites. Thanks fellas. Another important piece of the word-spreading puzzle in hifi-land is […]
Portraits in HiFi
Portraits in HiFi: Steve Guttenberg
Steve Guttenberg, the Audiophiliac.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: November 9, 2018
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream.com columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Artaud / Chalosse
Antonin Artaud is someone we should all get to know. Unfortunately he’s been dead since 1948. Fortunately his works in literature, theater and art are timeless and his influence continues to be influential.
New York Audio Show 2018
The New York Audio Show 2018 Opens Tomorrow
No, really. Tomorrow. I joked while at the Capital Audiofest just the other day that I was going to buy a tour bus to live on and go from show to show and I had some interest. I’m sure more shows are good for. . .someone?
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: The Wrap
What a great show. What a great show the Capital Audiofest is. Lots of friendly happy people, a panoply of hifi, and real good music being enjoyed by many. What more can you ask for?
Portraits in HiFi
Portraits in HiFi: Jonathan Derda
Jonathan Derda, Mo-Fi.
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Tenacious Sound
Retailer Tenacious Sound also had a number of rooms at RMAF 2018 and I’m going to agree with my friend Art Dudley, again, in picking this room as my favorite of the Tenacious bunch. Here’s Art—”It was sonically wide-open—the system would not have wanted an […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Doshi and DeVore and the Tale of the Tape
DC-area dealer Command Performance A/V had a number of rooms at CAF 2018 and my favorite was the one with Doshi and DeVore in it.
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Mostly Sights 2
When you walk around a hifi show, especially the Capital Audiofest, you can’t help but be struck by difference. There are more means toward our ends than anyone has the time to get to know well. Ideally we find things we like living with and […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Gryphon Audio
Gryphon Audio and retailer 20/20 Evolution shared room 523 along with guest tape spinner Philip O’Hanlon of On A Higher Note, Gryphon’s US Distributor. Philip reeled out Lee Morgan’s The Sidewinder and I had to resist the urge to get up and move to that […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Mostly Sights
I said to myself at the beginning of CAF 2018, Self, you’re going in every room. And I (almost) did. That being the case, I think the best way to share that experience is with pictures. Up top is the “Virtues of Vintage” crew—Art Dudley […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: Channel D
Rob Robinson of Channel D is a man on a mission(s)—one of said missions is to help you rip your vinyl, metadata and all. His Pure Vinyl software has the ability to automagically add your LP’s metadata using an internet db lookup “using only the […]
Capital Audiofest 2018
CAF 2018: BorderPatrol and Volti (and the end of controversy)
You have to ask yourself— how can a DAC be controversial? You have to ask because a DAC can’t be controversial any more than a spoon can be controversial—people make things controversial when they try to impose their opinion so forcefully in order to make […]