Paulโs system is one of those rare audiophile systems; its composed entirely of gear of the same brand, in this case, made by venerable Scottish company Linn. Paulโs system is Linnโs 5.0 Katalyst Surround System. Did you think that Linn was mostly about turntables and analogue? Only in a nostalgic sense. Before I get into…
Having cut his teeth at age twenty as an assistant engineer on none other than the Beatles’s Abbey Road and Let It Be sessions, Parsons truly rose to prominence by engineering the landmark rock and audiophile favourite, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
I’ve so far had the pleasure of listening and evaluating three digital cables and three interconnects from cable veterans AudioQuest, Kimber Kable, and Audience. I say “pleasure”, because although they […]
โAudio Showโ is a funny term to me. โAudioโ and โShowโ. They donโt really fit together, do they? How can you show sound? Or is audio show shorthand for audio gear?
One of the things that impresses me most about PMA Magazine contributor Claude Lemaire is the manโs encyclopedic knowledge of popular music. If there was an edition of the game show Jeopardy! entirely focused on the minutia of who did what on any recording, Iโm convinced Claude would have a legitimate shot at being inducted…
High End Munich is an extraordinary event unlike any other. Nowhere else can you hear and see such a large display of high-end gear assembled by exhibitors from around the world. I had a chance to attend the 2022 show, which ran from May 19 to 22. Over the course of those three days, I…
Here we go, starting with four CD-related products: three SPDIF digital cables and an accessory for CD playback. If the former might rankle the sensibilities of some outside the audiophile sphere, the latter will surely send those same people into a hissy fit.
โBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.โ โ Oscar Wilde In heavy metal, as in any walk of life, nothing matters like identity. To know it, to be it, to own who you are, as the great rockโnโroll sage, Wilde, so profoundly observed. And youโd have thought Judas Priest would have owned that down to…
Be forewarned: If your stomach knots in pain at the very thought of expensive, high-end audio cabling or AC conditioning products, you may want to bypass this article, which contains many references to such items. Ditto, if youโre averse to systems costing comfortably in the six figures, such as the one that is the subject…
Look at PS Audioโs new state-of-the-art loudspeaker, the aspen FR30, and I think youโll agreeโit looks impressive. Itโs big, full range, elegantly shaped, looks sturdy, comes with planar diaphragms and unique options to adjust the sound for a particular room, and overall gives the impression that itโll sound spectacular. Most intriguingly to me, and I…
After PMA Magazine posted its inaugural โNo, I have the best system in the world!โ, a few willing participants answered our call to talk about their own audio journeys and โBestโ system,ย i.e. a system they felt had reached a certain level of performance they could live with for the long term. To do the series,…
And yes, the title refers to me. I’m a cable guru, with a minor in tweaks and accessories which Iโll also be covering in this column.
If there’s a specialist audio company that better exemplifies the meeting point between high end audio performance and objet d’art aesthetic than Netherlands-based Metaxas & Sins, I don’t know about it.
I know, the best system in the world is in the ear of the beholder. So howโs this: What I have is a system thatโs best-ish, in that it has tamed the upgrade beast in me and made me very happy.
First impressions All prices listed in USD My wife is not an audiophile. But as a classically trained pianist and a professional musician, she has ears for sound quality. Itโs why I sometimes seek her opinion after changing something in my audio system. This yearโs T.H.E. Show, held in Long Beach, was her first audio…