Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Border Patrol | Volti Audio | Triode Wire Labs
No trip to CAF is complete without a stop in the Border Patrol/Volti Audio/Triode Wire Labs room-orama.
Year: 2022
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Now Listen Here | Vandersteen | EMM Labs
Harrisburg, PA-based dealer Now Listen Here took over the Executive Suite at CAF 22 with an executive system.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Voxativ
Berlin-based Voxativ was showing their new 9.88 System that adds a midrange driver and crossover to their 9.87 system. Yes, I said crossover.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Distinctive Stereo | Genesis Loudspeakers | Merrill Audio
Big system + big room = big sound.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022: In Pictures
Hifi is a feast for the eyes as well as the ears, so please enjoy a visual tour around CAF 2022.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022: Alma Music & Audio and On A Higher Note’s (Midrange) Magic
Distributor Phillip O’Hanlon of On A Higher Note knows how to put on a show.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Linear Tube Audio | DeVore Fidelity
“We liked ’em so much, we bought ’em.”
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: GTT Audio | YG Acoustics | Mola Mola
Distributor/Dealer Bill Parish of GTT Audio lives and works 13 miles from the Barn yet the only time I see him is in other rooms in other cities.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022: MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 10 Loudspeakers
It seems everyone is talking about the new Andrew Jones-designed MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 10 Loudspeakers.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Fern & Roby | Modwright
Wood is good.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Alma Music & Audio | QLN | Nagra
San Diego, CA-based dealer Alma Music & Audio is about to open their second location in Sterling, VA and their growth may have something to do with putting “Music” first.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Robyatt Audio | Miyajima Laboratory
HiFi is filled with as many approaches to musical goodness as there are people making products but some are further off the beaten path than others. No one knows this better than Robin Wyatt of Robyatt Audio.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Fidelity Imports | Diptyque Audio
Panel speakers have a certain je ne sais quoi beyond mere flatness.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: Linear Tube Audio | Credo
As timing would have it, I got to hear two different pair of Credo speakers in one of two rooms hosted by Linear Tube Audio.
Capital Audiofest 2022
CAF 2022 Highlights: The Voice That Is | Vinnie Rossi
While the determination of beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, to my eyes the BRAMA gear sings with understated elegance.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: November 11, 2022
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream 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: Moin | Paste
Moin is Raime.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Dynaudio Focus 50 Active Wireless Speakers
Two speakers + two power cords = endless music on tap that sounds as good, or better, than separates. That’s what the Dynaudio Focus 50 have to offer. Interested?
HiFi News
Meet MoFi Electronics’ New Andrew Jones-Designed SourcePoint 10 Loudspeaker
I can imagine any number of audiophiles already ready to hit “Add to Cart”.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Auralic ARIES G1.1 Wireless Streaming Transporter
Packets in, digital audio out.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: EAR Phono Classic MM/MC Phono Preamplifier
When it comes to hifi (and movies), I love a classic and the EAR Phono Classic is aptly named.
Capital Audiofest 2022
Let the show begin! Capital Audiofest 2022
It’s nearly here (and I’ll be there): Capital Audiofest, the 2022 edition.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Sonnet Digital Audio Pasithea DAC
I first heard about Sonnet Audio from my dear friend Alex Halberstadt who wrote about their Morpheus DAC for Stereophile. Careful readers will have spotted a mini theme.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: November 4, 2022
Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream 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: Mal Waldron | Searching in Grenoble : The 1978 Solo Piano Concert
We have San Francisco-based Tompkins Square to thank for bringing us this previously unreleased live solo set from Mal Waldron.
HiFi Reviews
Review: EMM Labs DA2 V2 Reference Stereo DAC
Digital music replay can feel like wearing someone else’s shoes—rarely do you get a perfect fit. Whether too loose, too tight or too lumpy, getting digital right can be an elusive task.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Lejonklou Slipsik 8 MM Phono Stage
Lejonklou, the hifi company, is named after its founder Fredrik Lejonklou and I know a bit about both because my dear friend Alex Halberstadt wrote about them in Stereophile.
HiFi Reviews
Review: PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid Tube Integrated Amplifier
My hifi underground, yours may be a different one, spoke with a unified voice about the PrimaLuna EVO 300—“You have to hear this.”
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: MoFi StudioPhono Phonostage
The late sorely missed legendary Tim De Paravicini of EAR fame had a hand in the circuit design of the MoFi StudioPhono Phonostage and it costs $349.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Ortofon 2M Black MM Phono Cartridge
The Ortofon 2M (Moving Magnet) Black cartridge sports a Shibata diamond stylus, nude, to better ride the grooves, a low viscosity, halogen free polycarbonate (PC) resin Hopelex body, and a special upgraded engine, featuring split pole pins with a silver plated copper wire.