HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: Cries & Whispers
I’m not one to gossip. But.
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: Photo Extravaganza!
OK, it’s a photo gallery. Extravaganza just sounded more exciting!
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: Interesting Products
Here are some of the things I spied at High End Munich 2019 that captured my attention mainly because they strike me as being in need of further examination in Barn (some exceptions where noted). Warning: not everything I found interesting is new.
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: A Tradition In Listening with MBL
The MBL room at Axpona 2019 ranked among my favorites—”All enveloping, all consuming, nearly overwhelming, this MBL system grabbed every bit of me and didn’t let go.” I repeat these words because they easily apply to Munich, which is one reason I always spend some […]
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: A Tradition In Listening with DeVore Fidelity
I have owned, used, lived with, and loved speakers from DeVore Fidelity for decades. These days, my gibbon X fill the Barn with sweet, sweet music damn-near every day and listening to them now, after being away for what feels like a while, is like […]
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: “Nice Phono Stage” or The Ugly Truth About Reporting On Sound At Shows
Many moons ago, I walked into a NYC hifi shop with a person/reviewer I had just met. We were there to hear the just-arrived-from-Germany Auditorium 23 loudspeakers.
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: A Tradition In Listening with Silbatone
It’s difficult, at least for me, to make appointments during show hours because time at the massively massive and heavily crowded High End Show is dear and I prefer to wander where my interests take me.
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: Odeon Audio or Why HiFi Is About Much More Than HiFi (a story)
My father and I had our differences, who doesn’t with theirs?, but our meeting place, the thing that always brought us together, was hifi and music.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: March 10, 2019
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.
HIGH END Munich 2019
High End Munich 2019: The Return of the Garrard 301
Back in may of 2018, British hifi company SME purchased the Garrard Audio brand. This strikes me being totally. . .cool.
HiFi Reviews
A Bio-Dynamic Adventure: AudioQuest NightOwl, Fostex TH610, ZMF Eikon
Two channel systems with loudspeakers, or “stereos” as my childhood friends and I called them, and headphones have always run together, side by side—my earliest memories of listening to playback include both. I recall sitting on one end of our couch in the living room […]
Portraits in HiFi
Portraits in HiFi: J.C. Morrison
J.C. Morrison, Silbatone Acoustics.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Sonore Signature Rendu SE systemOptique
Sonore has not rested on their laurels given the announcement of their latest products based around the new systemOptique. Sonore has described systemOptique as “a fiber optic Ethernet interconnection scheme that utilizes a new series of Sonore products with optical transceiver capabilities.” John Swensen has […]
HiFi Thoughts
Home Is Where The Heart Is: Or, Reviewers Are People Too
Have you ever read any hifi forums or the comments section on a hifi review site? I have and let me tell you, it ain’t always pretty.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: March 3, 2019
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.