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I am absolutely thrilled to bring you this conversation I had in Long Valley, NJ, on September 12, with loudspeaker design legend, Laurence Dickie. “Dic,” as he is known to his friends and colleagues, and I had a nice conversation about why he implemented his Reaction Cancelling Compliant Mounting of woofers, and how that allows... Read More »

Last week we took a behind-the-scenes, in-depth tour of the YG Acoustics manufacturing facility in Arvada, Colorado by YG’s Marketing Director, Duncan Taylor. Today, we have another special treat, as I present my conversation with Dr. Matthew Webster, YG’s CEO, and chief designer. He systematically applies computational modeling and simulation to take YG’s designs even... Read More »

Today we start phase two of my recent trip to Denver with a tour of the YG Acoustics Factory conducted by their Marketing Manager, Duncan Taylor. Follow Duncan as he guides us through this amazing state-of-the-art American loudspeaker manufacturing facility. One correction! At about 35 seconds in, I mistakenly say that Arvada is just northeast... Read More »

Last week with E189, we got a guided tour of the monstrously large Boulder Amplifier facility in Louisville, Colorado. Today, we’ll hear a conversation that I had with Logan Rosencranz, Boulder’s International Sales Manager, who conducted last week’s splendid tour, and Kenzo Horiuchi, their sales coordinator. We’ll also get to listen to some recordings made... Read More »

Last week, I spent two days in the Denver, CO area, and was able to tour and visit both YG Acoustics and Boulder Amplifiers… Today, Boulder Amplifiers International Sales Manager, Logan Rosencranz, takes us through their 29,000 square-foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in the Colorado Technology Center industrial park in Louisville, Colorado.

Back in November 2020, I reviewed the new Silversmith ribbon speaker cables, the first product Jeff Smith, of Silversmith Cables, had brought to market using the proprietary thin ribbon foil material he calls “Fidelium. Today I’m introducing an unbelievably affordable, yet world-class, interconnect, the new Silversmith Audio Fidelium balanced interconnect! Check these cables out…

Today I’ll take you on a guided tour of DS Audio Grand Master Optical Phono Cartridge system. That’s right. I said optical phono cartridge. No magnets, no coils, no induction-generated signals. A mechanical transduction system that uses light to regenerate your LPs audio signal, and as a consequence, is considerably less massive, or lighter, as... Read More »

Today Bill Parish and I discuss the relevant takeaways from my four days spent in the Big Room at GTT Audio, with the focus on what must be seen as a new summit, and unparalleled accomplishment in loudspeaker design, Laurence Dickie’s new Vivid Audio Moya M1. Much as he had done with the introduction of... Read More »

Today we explore the Master Fidelity NADAC C master clock and the NADAC D DAC. These products represent a completely new approach to rendering digital music. You will not only get an overview of what the Master Fidelity products do so vastly differently from any other products available today, but we also discuss what that... Read More »

Today we are going to take a closer look at ways to demagnetize your Moving Coil phono cartridge and discuss the pros, and possible cons, of doing so. Before we get into why a moving coil may need to be demagnetized occasionally, let’s look at how the moving coil variety of phono cartridges works.

In episode 148, I shared my remarkable recent experiences with the simply splendid stylus and record care products from the LAST Factory, in Livermore California. The name LAST is an acronym for Liquid Archival Sound Treatment. I first came upon and used the LAST products back in the 1980s There were two stylus formulations, one... Read More »

I admit to having been hard-smitten from my very first exposure to the Supreme Series of electronics from Greece’s True Life Audio, the SSP-1 dual mono linestage, and the SSA-350 hybrid monoblocks, in the fall of 2022 True Life Audio, of Athens, Greece, was founded by Velissarios Georgiadis in 1995. His father, Aristomenis, had been... Read More »

Siltech, the Dutch company that manufactures high-end audio cables, electronics, and loudspeakers, known for its focus on advanced materials, design, and testing techniques, recently launched a new, flagship series of audio cables called Master Crown. As with everything they do, the launch would be a first-class event. With the help of US Siltech distributor, Monarch... Read More »

Today, we will make virtual visits to three more rooms from High End Munich 2024, starting with the large, corner room suite occupied by Cyprus’s Aries Cerat on Atrium 4.1, in E111 As I entered the room, and was first overwhelmed at both the aesthetic and scale of the system in this large open space,... Read More »

Today, we will make virtual visits to three more rooms from High End Munich 2024, starting with the room partnered by the Valve Amplification Company and Von Schweikert Audio on Atrium 4.2 in E217. If you’ve followed my writing over the decades, you will know that I hold both of these companies in the highest... Read More »

Today, we will make virtual visits to three more rooms from High End Munich 2024, including several featuring particularly important world premier product launches. I’ll start with the room partnered by Kronos, WADAX, Pilium, and Göble, on Atrium 4.1 in E115. This system was simply glorious sounding.

Those of you who follow my written work will be aware that in September of 2022, I was invited to Rhapsody Audio in Brooklyn to get a personal taste of the Alsyvox Botticelli X loudspeaker experience. This year at the MOC, I got to hear the new Alsyvox Caravaggio XX on Atrium 4.2, in E214.... Read More »

Today we will take virtual tours of, and get a sample listen to, what were in my opinion, among the most significant product launches at this year’s High End Munich, planet Earth's largest, most significant audio show. Interestingly, four of these manufacturers were showing together, sharing an exceptional system in Cabin K16 on the floor... Read More »

Well, I’m back in the Midwest after a whirlwind week in Munich. Well, almost a week. Weather delays out of Chicago cost me a full day’s delay… But what an amazing show! SO MANY product launches, so many friends, and entirely too little time… Whenever I talk about the Munich show, among the most often... Read More »