The Gearhead

Buying gifts for the audiophile in your life can be tough. By nature they’re known to be… (how to put it?) a tad particular, even bordering on persnickety. Audiophiles care so much about…

My mom's mom, Janice McVay, was quite a lady. As an award-winning amateur photographer in South Florida’s exciting photography scene and a longtime board member of the Palm Beach Photographic Ce…

The culinary world has gone a bit rustic in recent years, trading well-seasoned woods, Scandinavian comfort and the practice of expert, small-scale farming for the previous two decade’s fascination wi…

A Delicate Touch  I wanted to really put the Aqua La Scala Mk II through its paces, so I thought I’d see how it competes against my own reference, and what I consider to be one of the bette…

Review System and Methodology  Regular readers will recognize my tweaked-out main listening system, which features somewhat re-conditioned six foot tall Dunlavy SC-III speakers and an extensively…