Adventures in vinyl, be it from analog or digital sources, with good music the only common currency. By Ken Micallef In the opening scene of the 2014 Ginger Baker biopic, Beware of Mr. Baker, […]
I feel like I need to be wearing a hat and a trench coat while I write this. Preferably with a sunglasses, while backlit and speaking through a voice changer. On a dark and stormy […]
By John Stancavage
By Marc Phillips “How much longer are you going to be smoking that cigar?” I’ve been smoking high-quality premium cigars for about 17 years now, and not once has anyone approached me in public to […]
There were a lot of tremendously awesome things to see and touch (or not) at the NYIAS this year. Alfa Romeo’s vintage roundup was an extremely distracting highlight, and it was only one of many. From a […]
I’m willing to put up with a lot of ugly in my audio – the various Nextel-painted Tannoy DMTs that have graced my living room attest to this – but my personal hierarchy tends to […]
Many of my friends with car fetishes will wax poetic about the road-feel and handling of the new mid-engines Porsches, but all I hear is blah blah blah. Holy sh*t, was that a flipping Maserati? […]
In eyes of teen-me, the Jaguar XJS was pretty much the greatest car ever made. The whole 12-cylinder engine thing was awesome and all, but it was the visual — all those swoops and curves […]
The new Audi R8, here shown in a space-gray, is a rocket and there’s no mistaking it for anything else. The price tag starts at $116k, so I’m not sure what I was expecting. Perhaps […]
Finding an actual Harman-branded display at the NYIAS was like finding a unicorn. For the record, it was our second. Unicorn, that is. I’ll get back to that later. But for now, we have Lexus and […]
As a BMW owner, I’m not sure I’m allowed to like, much less fawn over, a Mercedes-Benz, but the new GT-S is going to have to be an exception. Holy-cow, that thing is awesome looking. […]
I’ll be honest, Lincoln isn’t really a car brand that crosses my mind. Pretty much ever. There was the Town Car, which was a hilarious wonderful car to rent (which I got to do about half […]
Greg Roberts of Volti Audio sent me a set of his brand-new headphone stands ($149 each). Headphone guys wouldn’t have any real reason to know about Volti Audio, or my love affair with his giant […]
According to Google Maps, the distance between Manhattan and Redondo Beach is about 2,800 miles. Following the respective speed limits and abstracting away from pesky things like stopping for fuel or the necessities of nature, […]
There’s a lot that probably could be said about PS Audio‘s new DAC, the DirectStream. Which is probably why a lot has. Ha! What any of that matters, at this point anyway, will depend entirely on who you […]
By Lee Shelly Note: Many of the sources have already been covered in the Amplification Report. Those include the combination DAC/Amplifiers like The Codex from Ayre Acoustics, The Woo Audio WA8, The Chord Hugo […]
By Lee Shelly Photographing an inanimate object … specifically a box 18″ wide by 5″ high by 13″ deep. No sweat! Pretty simple, right? I used to think so too! This week, I received a […]
By Lee Shelly Schiit Audio The first stop I made (pre- show!), was to the Schiit booth. When I got there, Jason Stoddard was fighting with his flagship system … no sound was coming out … […]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I bought a boatload of Plinius electronics. The reason? I wanted bass. Like most things, it was a matter of timing and circumstance. My Merlin VSM-MXR loudspeakers […]
By Lee Shelly Ultimate Ears On Friday, I was part of a group tour at Ultimate Ears, conducted by General Manager Philippe Depallens. It was amazing seeing their two processes for creating custom in-ear monitors. […]
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