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2024 California Audio Show – Rooms
ROOMS Updated: 12/13/2023 Lobby Pavilion: Aaudio Imports. Available: Platinum Room, Gold Room. 11th Floor Room 1107 Parlor Suite: PureAudioProject. Room 1120: Sound Lab. Room 1124: Audience AV....
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CAS11 Tickets and Prize
TICKETS & PRIZES To purchase tickets: 1. Select “Quantity”; 2. Click “Buy Now”. 2024 California Audio Show .main-table_23106,.main-table_23106 td,main-table_23106 tr { border: 0px solid #000000...
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Benchmark Media AHB2 THX AAA stereo amplifiers Review
Benchmark Media is known for its small-footprint digital-to-analog converters such as the discontinued DAC2 and current-production DAC3 series, as well as analog-to-digital converters. The AHB2...
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Aurender N20 Ultra High Performance digital output network transport Review
The initial article regarding my search for a new digital front end concluded with a recommendation of the Aurender A20 (see review) as an excellent choice for those wishing to obtain great sound for...
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May 2018 Sibelius Violin Concerto concert video via Berliner Philharmoniker...
Nearly six years ago in May 2018, then 38-year-old Russian violinist Lisa Batiashvili stepped onto the stage in the Berliner Philharmonie to play the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Paavo Jarvi...
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EMM Labs MTRX monoblock Input Board Upgrade Review
Have you ever encountered someone who refuses to leave well enough alone? Almost as soon as my original review of the EMM Labs MTRX amps had been submitted, Ed Meitner began tinkering with the...
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Audio Note UK IO Limited field-coil cartridge system Review
There are lots of cartridges out there, a handful of manufacturers being responsible for the vast majority of the technologies and shapes of them. Swapping cartridges in and out of the system to...
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Andy Grove of Audio Note UK on IO LTD
Read: Audio Note UK IO Ltd field-coil cartridge system Review I group audio engineering kung-fu into 3 main categories: Concepts which have a solid theoretical basis. Concepts which have a...
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Computer Audio Design GC 1.1 & GC3.1 Ground Control external grounding...
Several months ago a local dealer, Timbre Audio, hosted an open house featuring the principals of the company Computer Audio Design: Isabel Whitley and Scott Berry. CAD designs and manufactures...
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Technics SU-R1000 reference stereo integrated amplifier Review
A few short years back, some large Japanese global conglomerate poured its vast engineering resources into creating three components; the first, a D/A converter that would be the envy of all, one that...
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PureAudioProject Quintet15 with Voxativ AC-X field-coil open-baffle...
The hierarchy of large loudspeakers in my experience begins at the top with the Sound Lab Prostat 922 at the Kimber Kable Exhibit at 2008 RMAF, Acapella Audio Arts Excalibur Triolon with its plasma...
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Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert, May 2, 2024
“Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion.” – Darth Vader, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977. It was on this pretext...
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Bricasti Design Model 1 Series II D/A Converter and M5 Network Player Review
I’m not ready to be called old at 61, but I must admit I am making boneheaded mistakes I presume are associated with age. Such was the situation when I called Damon Gramont, Director of Sales and...
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SW1X Audio Design AMP V “Titan” Special directly-heated triode integrated...
Audiophiles dig specifications. Most audiophiles are not technically savvy and rely on the brilliance of the design engineers of companies and their marketing departments to make purchase decisions,...
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Lego Icons Retro Radio Review
I occasionally express my nostalgia in the hobby of audiophilia through acquisition of inoperative or nominally operative audio devices versus vintage stereo equipment. The nostalgia or vintage...
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Sound Lab to show new narrower panels at CAS11 – Room 1107 Parlor Suite
Sound Lab Japanese Distributor Chris Stubbs of Sound Lab Electrostats Japan will be showing two new Sound Lab models in the Parlor Suite 1107. Per Chris: Models are (and note both are brand new):...
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Arya Audio Labs RevOpods Anti-Vibration Feet Review
Publisher’s note: This article is co-authored by Fred Crowder and Earl Weed. RevOpod Black and Chrome In this review, I explore the effect of a relatively new product, Arya Audio RevOpods, vibration...
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Douglas Schroeder’s One Year Exploration of Digital Front End Systems
Note to the reader: In this article I am not claiming to have found a method in which affordable equipment performs at a SOTA level, but rather, a method of system building that has elevated my...
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Dr. Vinyl joins Sound Lab in Lobby Gold Ballroom
Dr. Vinyl will join Sound Lab Electrostats Japan in Lobby Gold Ballroom in a demonstration of the following system: Pear Audio Blue Aras turntable w/ Cornet 3 arm – retail $15,000 Tru glider tonearm–...
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Audience AV and Atma-Sphere in Room 1120
Audience AV and Atma-Sphere will demonstrate the following system in Room 1120: Audience AV ClairAudient 1+1 v5 mini-monitors Skylan speaker stands Atma-Sphere MP-3 Mk 3.3 Balanced Differential...
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