CAF 2021: Volti Audio & Border Patrol & Triode Wire
Volti Audio and Border Patrol have shared a room each time I’ve visited the Capital Audiofest and they go together like peanut butter and bananas.
Volti Audio and Border Patrol have shared a room each time I’ve visited the Capital Audiofest and they go together like peanut butter and bananas.
I have to think that being a HiFi dealer is challenging even in ‘normal’ times. These days, with travel restrictions, mask mandates, supply chain nightmares, and a general air of grumpiness, presenting a happy face for customers must take either real skill or real nice […]
The digital products from Ideon Audio were new to me at CAF21, where I got to hear their entry mk2 384 DXD DAC and 3R Master Time Reclocker as well as their flagship products which I’ll cover in a separate post.
Infigo Audio Method 2 Monoblock Amplifier ($50,000/pair).
Here’s a tip (for free): keep your eye on Mytek.
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day. . .and I’m feeling good.
I envision the entire world acting as one, once they hear Snail Mail’s new record, Valentine. Its that good.
Have I mentioned I love, love, a nice integrated amplifier?
I hate to contradict myself, but it happens so often I’ve learned to love it — take one look at the HiFi Rose RS150b Reference Network Streamer, and you may think: I need that.
I join John Darko for Episode #27, the latest in his ongoing Podcast series, where we talk about a host of matters including the likelihood of Placebo Effect infecting hifi. Boo!
When searching for words to describe the music Liz Harris makes as Grouper, I landed on spirit. Spirit music. This seemed the least restrictive while offering a broad choice of definitions to pick from, matching the music in its incorporeal flickering beauty.
It has been a while since I shared some letters to the Editor. Er, um, to me. I always enjoy hearing from you, otherwise its just music, wind, rain, crickets, and the occasional howl here in the Barn.
In Italian, Brama means “craving”, an apt name for a line of audio components meant to inspire the desire to listen.
I did one of these Here I Come posts for RMAF and we all know how that ended. But, Gray skies are gonna clear up, Put on a happy face; Brush off the clouds and cheer up, Put on a happy face because CAF, here […]
A little something to tickle your spooky tooth. Boo!
On Geist, spirit in German, Shannon Lay has made an album that feels right, ripe, and timeless.
Public Address (PA) systems are used in any public venue that requires an announcer, performer, etc. to be sufficiently audible at a distance or over a large area. In hifi, clarity is also prized but in measured doses. Too little and music sounds like mud, […]
Toyko, Japan’s Melco has brought their new N50-S38 to market, which falls midway in their price/product lineup offering Solid State storage for your music file serving needs.
By all accounts, Albert Pinkham Ryder was a solitary man who spent most of his life chasing visions in paint. Visions that spoke to matters well beyond the surface of things to reflect the mystery, power, and beauty of the natural world and our rather […]
Ookii Gekkou is “Big Moon” in Japanese and also Vanishing Twin’s new record, released today on Fire Music.
The Bel Canto E1X is what I like to call a full-function integrated amplifier as it includes streaming and phono capabilities along with a host of sophisticated signal processing meant to make our music sound virtually untouched.
The Perlisten Audio S7t Tower Speakers are, from a bird’s eye view, a 4-way bass-reflex/acoustic suspension floor-standing loudspeaker with down-firing ports. Enough said?
Sotheby’s is auctioning off items from the collections of Grateful Dead Productions and their inner circle in From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends. Lots close on 14 October at 14:00 EDT, so get your checkbooks ready!
Combine anticipation with expectation, and we can end up nearly incapable of experiencing anything new.
In hifi we strive for the same goal — namely the reproduction of music in as captivating a manner as possible.
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