Aesthetix Atlas Tube Hybrid Power Amplifier I don’t know if it’s just me, but when I see a serial number on an amplifier or speaker with fewer than five digits, I start to feel like I have an exceptional audiophile...
I don’t know how you got into this hobby, but my introduction occurred early in life, through the influence of my grandfather, Dr. James McVay. He didn’t necessarily push me to be interested in his passion for high-end audio —...
I’m reminded of the magic of those Siltech Empress Double Crown interconnects when I take in the magic of this Ayre V-6xe amplifier from the audio wizards around the corner from TMR. Just as a side note, it never ceases...
You can call me a tweaker, and I am, to an extent. But instead of focusing on EMI/RFI rejection or wall-mounting active room treatment devices ALA Bybee, I like to tweak things like cabling and room acoustics. And, I really...
Every person who has walked back into the testing area of The Music Room has seen this VAC tube amp sitting on its box and instantly remarked on it. Remarks are either appearance-related (“Holy @#$, look at that gorgeous thing”),...
Speakers have an incredibly difficult job. We ask them to perfectly replicate the sound of a double bass played in a reverberant room, and then we turn around and ask them to crank Brothers In Arms at pants-flapping volumes. We...
I talk a lot about the sound of speakers or components being “right,” and I want two give a little background on what I mean by that. I grew up steeped in music and surrounded by excellent musicians as the...
OK, I get it. In fact, I got it immediately when I pressed play after gently installing the Siltech interconnects into my humble but accurate and musical system here at The Music Room. What’s so amazing about my position here...
One funny memory from my recent attempt to build a subwoofer for my listening rig at home was the advice I got from other builders to steer away from certain open baffle designs because they “are for music and not...
