Welcome to Part 3 of our Capital Audiofest 2024 show report! In this installment, Julie Mullins reports on what she saw and heard from Thuono, Grandinote, and Kimber Kable. . .
Welcome to Part 2 of our Capital Audiofest 2024 show report! In this installment, Julie Mullins reports on what she saw and heard from Perpetuum Ebner, Ortofon, Phasemation, Synthesis, and Rethm. . .
In recent years, Capital Audiofest has continued expanding to encompass exhibit rooms across more than four floors in addition to dozens of other exhibitors in conference rooms and halls throughout the hotel — 125 rooms, and 50 booths in all — including vinyl and accessories sellers in the atrium. We here at AP figured we’d approach things a bit differently this year and post multiple, short-form analog-centric highlights from the show across several brief installments — so, without further preamble, here’s Part 1 of Julie Mullins’ show report, featuring gear from Belleson, Rega, Linear Tube Audio, and Anticables. . .
You have to hand it to Jack White. The multi-talented, multi-hyphenate producer/vocalist/guitarist has successfully created a personal brand of stylistic flair alongside his own multifaceted music and musical tastes — and he’s also known as the force behind Third Man Records, which he co-founded with Ben Blackwell and Ben Swank in 2001. Read on to see everything our Julie Mullins came across during her recent onsite visit to the Third Man Records record store locale in Nashville. . .
We’re officially wrapping up our Munich 2024 coverage today with the second installment of Julie Mullins’ show report postscript. Read on to see what she found out firsthand about cool new gear from the likes of Benny Audio, Supatrac, Levin Design, Vertere, EAT, Vinyl Acoustic Laboratories, Acoustic Signature, AMG, and Nagra. . .
We still have some more to say about what we saw and heard at Munich 2024. Read on to see the first of two postscript show reports from Julie Mullins, who fills us on cool new gear from the likes of Wilson Benesch, Rui Borges, Kronos Audio, Dual, and Silence. . .
High End Munich 2024 made quite the statement. All throughout the show, the continuing importance of analog equipment and vinyl was emphasized through appearances of and discussions among analog proponents and producers — not to mention just the sheer number of turntables and other analog-associated gear seen at the show. Read Part 1 of Julie Mullins’ Munich show report to see new turntables from the likes of Gryphon, Aries Cerat, Technics, Yuki Precision, Thorens, EMT, Clearaudio, Thales, and more . . .
Our Munich 2024 coverage continues! In this installment, ace contributors Julie Mullins and Ken Micallef discuss their experiences in terms of the overall breadth of the show, and they also zero in on some of the high-end analog turntables and other related gear that's been "designed to be both beautiful and functional." Happy viewing. . .
As we get ready to shift our focus over to High End Munich 2024, we have one more AXPONA 2024 story to share with you. Read Part 3 of Julie Mullins’ in-depth show report to find out about a fine collective of turntables, tonearms, and RCMs from VPI, SUPATRAC, Tri-Art Audio, TW-Acustic, J.Sikora, iSonic Inc., Clearaudio, and more . . .
Our AXPONA 2024 coverage enters the home stretch. Read Part 2 of Julie Mullins’ in-depth show report to find out about a number of turntable and reel-to-reel tape player offerings from Michell, Metaxas & Sins, United Home Audio, Analog Audio Design, and EMT. . .