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Toronto Audiofest 2019

Malcolm J. Gomes

After the very successful Toronto Audiofest (TAF) last year, Sarah Tremblay and Michel Plante followed it up with an even more successful Show this year. Sarah and Michel are the team that also organizes the highly regarded Montreal Audio Fest. The TAF venue was once again The Westin Toronto Airport...

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Impressions:  My Audio Oasis! Awards for RMAF 2019, Part the Last

David W. Robinson

David W. Robinson:  Self-Portrait, Variation 3, Happy Valley, OR, 2019 Wilson Audio & VTL As usual of late, the Wilson Audio/VTL room did not disappoint…quite the contrary. The Wilson Audio Sasha DAW loudspeakers and their accompanying Wilson Watchdog Subwoofers, with an external crossover, were sounding quite full-range and authoritative, driven...

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The Pursuit of Happiness: My Rega Revelations

Wayne Goins

Wayne Goins on the hunt for LPs:  a selfie! In my last article for Positive Feedback, I extolled the virtues of the Modwright PH150 and the surrounding components that completed the rig (PS150 power supply; VPI Prime Scout; LTA Ultralinear amplifier and Microzotl amp; Daedalus Audio Athena v.2 loudspeakers; and...

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Audio Gangsters:  I’m With The Mob

Wayne Goins

It seems like such a long time ago since I last dropped in and shared my audio adventures with you guys. Well, I got a good one for ya in this episode of Wayne's World. I don't quite remember how it all got started, but more than likely I was...

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Q & A with Aaron Diehl

John Marks

Aaron Diehl's 2013 CD The Bespoke Man's Narrative, his début on Mack Avenue Records, fell like a thunderclap upon the jazz landscape, reaching No. 1 on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart. Something about the advance publicity must have caught my eye or ear, because I asked for a pre-release press copy of the CD. Upon playing...

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Lone Star Audio Fest 2018

Norman Tracy

Lone Star Audio Fest the high-end audio show held annually for 14 years the first weekend of May in Dallas, Texas was a grand success this year. The ever-present enthusiasm of exhibitors and attendees was enhanced by the upturn in the economy. Veteran exhibitors further dialed in their demo systems...

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AXPONA 2017: A Personal Journey, and the Von Schweikert Audio ULTRA 11 Experience

Greg Weaver

Audio shows! Local, regional, national, international. I've been covering shows and have had the privilege of producing show reports for various outlets for over 25 years. I attended them as a consumer for over 15 more before that. When you've walked the halls of as many as I have, it...

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Magico S5 Mk. 2 Loudspeakers: A New Classic

Myles B. Astor

Speakers—out of all the components in the audio chain— have seen the biggest advancements in performance over the last couple of years. Cabinet design. Driver design. Enclosure and driver materials. Computerized speaker design and crossover modelling. In house machining and construction. These factors and a few more have gone a...

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Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better: The Diminutive Lumin D1 Audiophile Network Music Player 

Maurice Jeffries

Navigating the New Digital Highway with the Lumin D1 Audiophile Network Music Player For the past year or so, I have grown increasingly frustrated with the theoretical promise but pragmatic limitations of computer-based audio playback. When all the stars align, meaning a musical alignment of one's chosen computer and operating software,...

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Feuilleton Acapella Audio Arts

Dirk Sommer

Dirk Sommer, with photographs by Helmut Baumgartner For everyone who takes a real interest in High End it's a truism that even the best equipment can't recreate a live impression. This alleged fact, however, while perhaps not refuted, would be at least seriously shaken by visiting the Audio Forum in...

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TARA Labs' Evolution Cables

Wojciech Pacuła

The impact of tests in trade magazines is either described as none or of a sort that can change everything; it depends on whether or not the one who expresses such an opinion likes or does not like the press and/or reviews. But if you want to form your own...

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I Left My Speaker in San Francisco: A Prequel to the Coming Magico S7 Review

Myles B. Astor

It took a while but I am finally first—even if but by a scant three hours—at something (Well to be honest, I did win a few fencing tournaments in my younger days). That something was not only being the very first high-end reviewer or audiophile (outside of Magico) to audition...

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Totaldac - d1-twelve DAC

Wojciech Pacuła

The last page of a folder presenting the offer of the French Totaldac company reminded me of the way in which digital technology has developed in the last thirty-five years, in the context of the audio domain. It all started in the year 1980 when the fundamentals of the Red...

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The Neoteric Listener…The Triangle Antal Anniversary Loudspeaker

Dean Seislove

Clothes may make the man, but what do loudspeakers make you? Sure, we all wish the fashion police would drape a hazmat pancho over that ratty Dynaco Dynamite! T-shirt stretched tight as tube top on your audio buddy. But who is in charge of equally egregious audio disasters like the ear-shredding "faithful...

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Partners

Dave Clark

Industry Partners Aavik Acoustics https://audiogroupdenmark.com/aavik-acoustics/ At Aavik Acoustics we manufacture Audio electronic components. Our line of products consists of several types of amplifiers, digital/analog converters, phono stages and streamers. All our components set new standards for the quality of high-end music reproduction. Aavik draws upon an extensive knowledge base in the...

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AES 2014 Show Report

Scott Dorsey

The AES show has long been two shows in one: a scientific conference in one set of rooms and a trade show in another set of rooms. What is great about the event is that although the two are often disjoint, there are people who straddle both of them. Vendors...

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The 11th Annual Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards for 2014 - The Best of the Best!

David W. Robinson

Beginning at the end of 2003, PF established its first annual awards for fine audio. The Brutus Award was established for the best that Dave Clark and I had heard in our own listening rooms during that year. You can think of it as our equivalent of an "Editors' Choice"...

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Krakow Sonic Society, Meeting No. 93 - Audiodesksysteme Gläß, The CD Sound Improver

Wojciech Pacuła

How the Kiss Gained its Polish The 93rd meeting of the Krakow Sonic Society has been arranged at the request of wykop.pl and related web portals. This report from the meeting is intended for people who like to think and act. I would like to apologize to all those who...

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