The Gearhead

This will be brief, hopefully. I was just loading up The Music Room's website and scrolling down to the blog area you see here, and I think the clouds parted and a beam of sunlight shone on the "featu…

The allure of Jadis tube amplifiers goes much deeper than the acreage of gleaming gold and chrome on their often multi-chassis amps and preamps littered with tubes and hulking transformers. P…

Tell me something — is it good or bad reviewer technique to try to analyze a pair of speakers while a baby is crying in the next room?I suppose it depends on the makeup of the acoustic treatment, and…

It can be exciting, and also just a little bit of a bummer whenever I see a product I write about in The Gearhead blog sail out the door immediately. Now, of course I have to be excited that a product…

After they warmed up a bit, I could tell the Mark Levinson No. 536 amps I’d taken home to review were really starting to open up. Soundstage things were happening, tonality was fantastic, and the laye…