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Newport 2012: United Home Audio presents Von Schweikert, Jolida and a lot of...
One of the joys of the Internets is that all the things you have ever said, anywhere, about anything, are all right there to haunt you. Forever. All my once-favorite, now forgotten, punching bags can...
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CAF12: United Home Audio
United Home Audio had two systems setup in the large, mostly square room. The first was anchored firmly in MBL’s product line, something local dealer Greg Beron of United Home Audio really likes to...
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RMAF12: United Home Audio brings the +5 Tape Deck of Awesomeness
I’ve had this argument before with United Home Audio‘s Greg Beron. Why “tape” — isn’t this just a pointless throwback? Totally redundant to good vinyl? I mean, seriously, why another analog source —...
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RMAF12: Jolida and VSA — Your Final System?
The optimistically named “Your Final System” (I mean, we are talking about audiophiles here, aren’t we?), an audio dealer with locations in NY and CO, put together a (relatively) affordable room,...
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CAS 2013: Endeavor Audio Engineering, YFS, Jolida
It’s only fair that I start out talking about this room. This is, after all, the room I heard the most. Mostly through the wall. We rolled into the hotel on Thursday while setup was still in full...
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CAF 2014: United Home Audio and the master tape experience
Greg Beron of United Home Audio has been a fan and a supporter of PTA for far too long for his taste to not be questioned, but it’s his championing of two other brands that show the mark he’s made on...
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CanMania 2014: Jolida says hello to little Rowen
Jolida had a set of nifty little bits at CanMania this year, all targeting the personal audio enthusiast obviously. The new kid of the block was a cute little prototype, tentatively called “Rowen”,...
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CAS 2014: Wells, Bybee, Chapman
In this age of tiny Class D amplifiers and pocket-sized DACs, the Wells Audio Innamorata Signature amplifier ($13,000) reminds me of the cancerously large boxes that characterized the receiver wars of...
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CAF 2015: UHA and Jolida, Masters of Analog
Greg Beron is a patient man. The proprietor of United Home Audio, Greg has been the rock to my railing storm of protest, indignation and outrage. Well, okay — I’ve been nothing like that in my approach...
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AXPONA 2016: Jolida reinvents the flux capacitor
Visitors to the Jolida room could be excused for wondering for a minute if they’d arrived in a DeLorean time machine with Doc Brown and actually were at AXPONA 1974. But no, my iPhone still was getting...
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AXPONA 2016: “This stuff costs how much? No f@!#ing way!”
When I attend audio shows these days, I spend a lot of time riding elevators. This year at AXPONA in the Westin O’Hare in Chicago, where more than 400 exhibitors were scattered across eight floors, it...
View ArticleCAF 2018: Black Ice Audio (Jolida); A name, and new designs from Jim Fosgate
Part-Time Audiophile Jim Fosgate is a name as well known in Hi-Fi circles as it is in the world of car audio, television, and movies. Jim is known for inventing the first car audio amplifier in 1973,...
View ArticleBlowTorch Audio Werks, Russ Gates | Lone Star Audio Fest 2019
Part-Time Audiophile DALLAS (PTA) — Blowtorch Audio Werks founder and chief designer Russ Gates is showing one of the most impressive loudspeakers at the show. Completed only a dozen hours before the...
View ArticleRMAF12: Jolida and VSA — Your Final System?
The optimistically named “Your Final System” (I mean, we are talking about audiophiles here, aren’t we?), an audio dealer with locations in NY and CO, put together a (relatively) affordable room,...
View ArticleCAF 2014: United Home Audio and the master tape experience
Greg Beron of United Home Audio has been a fan and a supporter of PTA for far too long for his taste to not be questioned, but it’s his championing of two other brands that show the mark he’s made on...
View ArticleCanMania 2014: Jolida says hello to little Rowen
Jolida had a set of nifty little bits at CanMania this year, all targeting the personal audio enthusiast obviously. The new kid of the block was a cute little prototype, tentatively called “Rowen”,...
View ArticleCAS 2014: Wells, Bybee, Chapman
In this age of tiny Class D amplifiers and pocket-sized DACs, the Wells Audio Innamorata Signature amplifier ($13,000) reminds me of the cancerously large boxes that characterized the receiver wars of...
View ArticleLSA VT-70 Integrated Amplifier | REVIEW
I know what you’re thinking. The LSA VT-70 integrated amplifier is probably too good to be true. Living Sounds Audio isn’t exactly a stranger to delivering great sound for an affordable price—Walter...
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