Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024 Favorite Rooms: Fern & Roby
One of the things I love about a hifi show is difference because difference reminds us there are as many ways to approach hifi design as there are hifi designers.
Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024 Favorite Rooms: Fidelis Distribution & Audio Skies
I’ve heard a number of speakers from Switzerland’s Stenheim over the years at shows and my reaction to them, more specifically to the systems they’ve been part of, has been a bit mixed.
Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024 Favorite Rooms: Marten Speakers | Constellation Audio | Jorma Design
I hold fond memories of my time with the Marten Parker Trio and Constellation Inspiration Integrated 1.0, both things I reviewed that also sit on my Favorite Gear Lists.
Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024 Favorite Rooms: YG Acoustics & Ayre Acoustics
I know my way around some YG and Ayre having reviewed the YG Summit loudpseakers and an entire Ayre stack.
Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024 Favorite Rooms: Gryphon Audio Designs
It’s been some time, Axpona 2019, since I’ve had the pleasure of hearing a complete Gryphon system.
Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024 Favorite Rooms: High Water Sound
Distributor/Dealer Jeff Catalano of High Water Sound is a professional.
Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024: In Pictures
Lights, camera, (no) action! Axpona 2024 in pictures.
Axpona 2024
Axpona 2024 Coverage: Preamble
My approach to covering a show the size of Axpona 2024 is the same way I approach a meal at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
#NewMusicFriday
#NewMusicFriday: April 12, 2024
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: Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future
I could survive on the music Adrianne Lenker makes for its warmth, kindness, compassion, and beauty.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: LAIV Harmony DAC
A balanced discrete R-2R DAC. NOS or OS is your call with I2S as an option.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Treehaus Audiolab ‘Phantom of Luxury’ Field Coil Loudspeakers
Trees, ‘hauses, audio, and labs are some of my favorite words as they, when combined, bring to mind all manner of lovely hifi things past and present.
HiFi News
Luxman’s First-Ever Network Transport is Here: Meet the NT-07
The new Luxman NT-07 Network Transport takes in network-based music from local files and streaming sources and sends out digital audio to your DAC-O-choice.
Axpona 2024
MoFi Electronics Unleashes the SourcePoint 888 for Axpona 2024
With Axpona only days away, I was wondering when I’d hear about a new Andrew Jones-designed speaker from MoFi.
HiFi Thoughts
Show Tunes
People complain, hell I’ve complained, about show tunes—the music exhibitors play at shows.