AXPONA 2018: The MUST SEE Rooms of Day One
Welcome to Chicago There are over 160 rooms and exhibits here at Axpona. Making this event the largest audio show in North America. For some this can be overwhelming and cause a bit of anxiety. But...
View ArticleAXPONA 2018: The Expo Hall (Part One)
Bigger and better than ever, this years Expo Hall at AXPONA was alone worth the cost of admission. Vendors were pulling all the stops with their displays and demo exhibits. Traffic was consistent...
View ArticleDaedalus Audio with VAC, Lampizator, and WyWires | AXPONA 2019
Part-Time Audiophile by Paul Elliott Lou Hinkley’s musical epiphany came at the young age of 12. When he heard some Booker T recordings, he just knew his path had to involve music. Lou became a...
View ArticlePaul’s Parting Shots | AXPONA 2019
Part-Time Audiophile By Paul Elliott As you have read from all the glowing posts, AXPONA has developed into a great show, well run by JD Events. This is a professional company, and one that understands...
View ArticleBest Albums of 2019 | Monthly Spins
Part-Time Audiophile 2019 went by really fast, a blur of truth/reality and fake/reality. One might be tempted to say that 1984 is finally upon us and all the early post-modern philosophers got it...
View ArticleAXPONA 2017: Music From Another Room, Part 2
A photojournal by Eric Franklin Shook Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, proving again that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Axpona is to me an ensemble interpretation of beauty,...
View ArticleRMAF 2017: Best In Show
This year dawned with plenty of questions facing the high-end audio industry. The most pressing were: Would the U.S. economy hold up, allowing manufacturers and retailers to stay afloat? Would vinyl...
View ArticleRMAF 2017: Cables from Skogrand for under a grand
The Story I’ve found many things to like about Skogrand Cables over the last three years, mainly being their sound, no you shouldn’t expect The French Laundry when swapping out one great cable for...
View ArticleThe Part-Time Audiophile guide to the best hi-fi gear of 2017
Picking the best audio component of the year is kind of like pondering your ultimate list of girls to ask to the high school prom. There are many very attractive choices, but probably a much smaller...
View ArticleLinear Tube Audio, Daedalus, Lampizator, WyWires | CAF 2021
Nicholas Tolson of Linear Tube Audio (LTA) gave us a tour of the system, I get to enjoy my favourite Daedalus speaker, Lampizator does that cool tube vibe thing, WyWires pulls all the strings. The [...]
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