For the merry traveling circus known as the audio show.
It was locked down like Fort Knox. Anybody that didn’t know somebody wasn’t getting in the TIDAL Audio room during the business to business days. And that’s probably for the better. Words and Photos by […]
The PT.Audio written converge of Munich 2024 continues to roll out, but if you would like to catch all of Editor-In-Chief Marc Phillips impressions from the international event in person, you can now tune into […]
The next entry in our series of huge horn speakers that are so big they’re impossible to photograph is, quite surprisingly, the most successful horn system I heard at Munich 2024 and perhaps anywhere. Maybe […]
Those unique loudspeakers from Bayz Audio, the ones that look like a cross between a contrabassoon and something you might find in a mad scientist’s lab, can finally be stricken off my bucket list. For […]
In the summer of 2022 I visited the DALI factory in Denmark to report on the development of the flagship Kore loudspeaker ($120K/pr). After the visit, I could sum up the excellence of the DALI […]
Last year it was easy to keep up with new product introductions from Audio Group Denmark, parent company of Børresen speakers, Aavik electronics, Ansuz cables and accessories, and Axxess entry level gear. First AGD went […]
First room visited at Munich 2024? Innuos and Kroma Atelier, along with Nagra and Stromtank. The first song heard? “Chocolate Chip Trip.” It’s becoming a tradition for some reason–for the last few high-end audio shows […]
This is the system that has haunted me for the last year, ever since I had a listen at High End 2023 in Munich. We’re talking, of course, of that enchanted room that featured a […]
When I visited this big YG Acoustics room last year, it occurred to me that was a lot of gear in one room–maybe a record for most things in one room at a high-end audio […]
The lovely retro-looking wedge-shaped speaker in the photos is indeed named the Trapeze Reimagined, and it comes from Danish speaker manufacturer Audiovector. The Trapeze Reimagined is a reboot of Audiovector’s very first speaker way back […]
If High End 2024 in Munich had a theme, it would be horn speakers. I’m not just talking about your usual horns, but massive multi-piece structures that seem to require dedicated listening rooms that are […]
Over the last few years at the Munich show, I’ve been keeping track of the progress of speaker designer Benno Meldgaard and his new company Baun Audio. Benno has designed a new type of speaker […]
I’ve been on a bit of a TAD bandwagon of late, so I was excited to see what was going on in the TAD and Protone room at Munich. When I walked in not only […]
On Sunday, the last day for High End 2024, I spent my time doing business–arranging for reviews, mostly, and connecting with prospective industry partners. One particularly gratifying moment involved introducing Doug White of The Voice […]
After the heady excesses from Friday at the 2024 Munich Show, the Saturday highlights focus less on the incredible and more on simply incredible sound. There was a point, after lunch on Saturday, where I […]
Friday at High End 2024 in Munich was a day spent listening to big, big systems that take up a lot of real estate–not to mention a lot of money. While the ESD Acoustic room […]
This is my first Press Day in my four years of attending the High End show in Munich. I always miscalculate my itinerary and wind up needing to sleep through the first day of the […]
This is my fourth trip to High End in Munich, but I know better than to act like I’m an old hand at this. I learned last fall when I traipsed all over Europe that […]
Behind the scenes at PTA we’ve been discussing the enormous (i.e. record-breaking) popularity of AXPONA 2024 and the show’s transformation into an audio juggernaut in recent years, and we’ve asked ourselves a question: can a […]
Supported by local brick and mortar dealer Holm Audio, Antal Audio Group (Triangle, Electrocompaniet and Soullines) featured the Triangle Magellan 40th Anniversary Duettos ($7,000/pr) that our Editor-in-Chief Marc Phillips just recently reviewed–and loved. The Duettos […]
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