pt.AUDIO

Does controlling every stage of the digital playback chain—from the incoming Ethernet packet to the balanced analog outputs—produce audible advantages that are difficult to achieve by assembling outstanding individual components? Or, once digital playback reaches the highest level, do differences between architectures become matters of presentation rather than outright performan...

I've already told the story of my first encounter with this Marco Arcieri LP from VDM Records in Italy, but here it is again. At High End Vienna this past June, I took a side trip to an off-site venue--hifideluxe--in order to visit Doug White and his room full of TIDAL Audio gear. Since hifideluxe [...]

Heaven 11 Billie Mk3 Integrated Amplifier Spartan by John Richardson Ah, poor me! Always trying to shake that unconscious bias I have long held against Class D amplifiers. I don’t even know where it came from; maybe a bad early experience, or just that back in the day, audiophile snobs referred to them as “digital [...]

This is the first of two Allnic Audio ASRA reviews I'm conducting this summer--the second one will be of the new ASRA RD-7500 DAC. When John Ketcham of Kevalin Audio, the US distributor for Allnic Audio, first started to talk to me about ASRA, I thought it was merely a new line he was carrying. [...]

IsoAcoustics Shares OEM Division Update, Marking Its Strongest Year Yet with JBL, Raidho, Marten, Lumin, EMM Labs, and Other Major Partnerships GAIA-TITAN Neo Makes Its Early OEM Debut Ahead of a Standalone Consumer Launch Later in 2026 MARKHAM, ON —(August 5, 2026) —IsoAcoustics, a global leader in acoustic isolation solutions for the professional, home audio, [...]