Magnepan MG 3.7i Back On Dem! $8K Per Pair Magnepan was hit as hard as any of our vendors by Covid 19. Starting in early 2020, any order placed for pans would run six months or more. Six months was just a starting point. Magnepan couldn’t predict accurately for us, so we couldn’t predict accurately for you. Availability was so limited on…

Klipsch Cornwall IV Speakers, $7300 per pair (38h, 25.3w, 15.5d, 102dB, 8 ohms, 100 lbs. Walnut, Black, Auburn Red) K’s Cornwall 4 is a particularly FASCINATING loudspeaker. There’s nothing else quite like it. I’m going to call it C4 for this article. Let’s take a look. People new to the C4 might shoot from the hip and think it’s basically a “club”…

RIP Joey DeFrancesco (1971-2022) Most of us who followed Joey knew him as perhaps the best Hammond B3 player out there. Yet Joey was also a touted trumpet and sax player. That’s a lot of tools in one tool belt! Joey just died at 51, which sounds frightfully young to us mature audiophiles. We’re fortunate to have Tidal and other services to…

Let’s talk cassette decks! No, I don’t have any to SELL you. Let’s just ruminate on what was once a fabulous hobby- making cassettes. Cassettes started as a cheap dictation format. In the late 60s it became a viable, affordable MUSIC format. But… how to get high end response and beat the hiss? For me the cassette deck world began with Advent…

Magnepan MG 3.7i,$8800 Per Pair, Back On Dem! Magnepan was hit as hard as any of our vendors by Covid 19. Starting in early 2020, any order placed for pans would run six months or more. Six months was just a starting point. Magnepan couldn’t predict accurately for us, so we couldn’t predict accurately for you. Availability was so limited on some…

There has been a big splash in speakers that look vintage in the past five years or so. As a die hard audio guy b. 1953, I love the look of some of these old friends. Actually, I like the look of almost all of these offerings. But which ones actually make sense to buy? Wharfedale Linton $1800 Per Pair With Stands…

My favorite preamp on the planet came out about Christmas 2020, during the height of Covid 19. Many audiophiles missed it because they we’re worrying about… other things. BR20 is as good a preamp as money can buy! BR20 is actually a preamp/DAC. So much the better to kill two birds with one stone. Brian Russell Bryston preamps have always had the…

On Loudspeakers… “In 2010 I began a personal quest to develop the ultimate loudspeaker- a model that would reproduce the full dynamic capability of music while remaining tonally neutral, crystal clear, and capable of capturing the subtle nuances of any recording. After collaborating with highly respected loudspeaker engineers for two years, the Model T was born. Initially it was a personal R&D…

Let’s see what the boys are talking about this month. I’ll warn you, it’s mostly absurd. Clearly, these writers don’t think their readers work for a living. They think you’re all sitting home doing nothing but counting your fortune. Kef Blade 2 Speakers They run $28k per pair. What do you get for your 28k? You get a stylish cabinet. Perhaps its…

Marantz CD-60 Single Play CD Player, $1000 Just in is Marantz’s new CD-60. It is the best $1K ish player on the market. Its sound is warm as opposed to cool. While we’re impressed when a big buck product pushes the state of the art, we’re even more impressed when an affordable product sets new standards for its price point. Have a…

There are a lot of speaker companies out there! I’ve compiled a list of most. I’ve put all of them in gold that offer a 20 year warranty. Acora Alta Amphion Apertura ATC Audience Audio Note Audio Physic Audiovector Avantgarde Borreson Bose B&W Bryston Buchardt Burmester Cabasse Canton Castle Crystal Dali Definitive Devore Dutch & Dutch Dynaudio Eikon Elac Emotiva Estelon Falcon…

So you’re looking for a serious record playing system. How far do you have to go to get a table/arm/cart combo that challenges THE BEST at any price- without paying crazy money? The Answer Is $3500, Made in Ann Arbor! $3500 is the package price for the incredible MoFi UltraDeck table and MoFi UltraGold MC cartridge. Please read on. MoFi UltraDeck Turntable…

McIntosh Availability McIntosh has been back ordered like crazy in the teeth of Covid 19. Any new McIntosh order will run six months or more. Audio Emporium is a stocking dealer. That means, we order ahead. We don’t just order per sale. We have a fair amount of McIntosh IN STOCK right now, that we ordered more than six months ago. Hence,…

We look to audio mags for reviews on gear we can’t audition for ourselves. Sometimes the writers do a good job to help us understand what a product sounds like. Sometimes they can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Here are some examples. Hits GoldenEar BRX Speakers “As if etched into its DNA, it possesses the timbrel and harmonic complexities of…

I love hearing and reading about new audio products. I’m like you, a kid in a candy store who gets excited about what this or that technology might bring to make our music sound more like the real McCoy in our living rooms. It seems like yesterday (well, it was 1973) that I was reading that better cables (Fulton) improved our sound….

It’s good to be king! Rogue Pharoah Integrated Amp, $4000, 250×2 Designed/Built in Pennsylvania. Rogue’s new Pharoah Mk2 integrated amp was not created JUST to be a steal of a deal. But it is! Integrated amps offer the best electronic values in high end audio. Pharoah Mk2 gives you a one box solution for very serious audio performance. By pairing a marvelous…