Highly acclaimed jazz pianist, composer and singer Patricia Barber will be launching a new collection of jazz standards entitled Clique, on August 6th. In the meanwhile you can listen to the lead single “This Town” […]
Before we get to True Life Audio, I would like to tell you a story. Once upon a time there was this handsome young prince doctor busting his cojones working for the local health system […]
Long time, no see, dear readers. I was hoping to be back with something a bit lighter — the 2020 Munich High-End coverage was on my to-do list along with a couple of reviews. All […]
The 2019 High End Munich show went as expected and that translates into many big and interesting rooms, lots of new proposals coming from some 500+ manufacturers along with beer and pork-knuckles a go go. […]
This is the kind of rooms that make people visit the Munich show. This is also the kind of room that make some of our readers scream at us, at the industry as a general. […]
Most of our readers should be familiar with British turntable company Avid and some of the more alert ones must have taken note on how Avid evolved into a complete high end audio manufacturer. After […]
This could have also been entitled Horns the European way mk3, as I have already covered Cassaro and Tune Audio for this year’s Munich show. Aries Cerat comes from Cyprus and they offer cost no […]
There is nothing wrong with an integrated amplifier if properly designed and executed. You save money on power cords and interconnects, you save some space too. In this case you don’t save that much of […]
What a terrific room the Vimberg – Lumin has been. Vimberg is the “almost affordable” division of Tidal speakers, minus the glorious black lacquer and the latest black diamond ceramic Accuton drivers which translates into […]
One might argue that horn speakers are a typical European trait but US and Klipsch in particular has been a pioneer, Japan has produced and widely enjoyed horn designs a lot as well. Here in […]
Over the last seven or eight years, we have been developing in-house tube amplifiers and this helped enormously in understanding tubes, components, and designs. Thöress has my highest approval rating for making solid, no-frills amplifiers and […]
Michael Børresen has been hitting strikes for a few years now though you might not be completely aware of his work, it was mostly done under the Raidho brand. And Aavik electronics. And Ansuz cables. […]
Lukasz Fikus of Lampizator listened to the big AudioNec Diva XL speakers and fell in love with them, so for this year’s show, it made sense to show up with AudioNec. AudioNec’s Francis Chaillet and Herve’ […]
There is nothing “boutique” in size when it comes to what Cessaro brings on a regular basis in Munich, these are rather ginormous horns paired with gargantuesque tube amplifiers (will be back for those in […]
Small booth down on the ground floor but with some interesting news coming from a couple of friends. First I had the chance to see a hardcore analog guy, as hardcore as it gets, Richard […]
If there is a real problem in Munich, that is money. Most of the systems are so expensive that they make no sense for most of us, in fact a few years back I went […]
I still recall the first time I bumped upon Estelon speakers. Among the most outlandish cabinets in the market. They have nothing in common with a typical cabinet, neither as a form nor as materials. […]
DeVore Fidelity‘s new reference speakers were one of the main reasons for me hitting the show in Munich. This, and drinking beer while eating crispy pork knuckles. Never met with John DeVore in person, we […]
Garrard, the legendary turntable company founded more than 50 years ago is back. Well, not exactly back as it was not entirely extinct. Garrards were still made by Loricraft but it was no more than […]
Decided to start my coverage with a big room, one of those all-out assaults (or close enough); this is what Munich offers after all. You see, visiting Munich evolved in recent years, no more a […]
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