Ken Micallef

Gestalt Audio Design, Wolf von Langa
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 26, 2024  |  3 comments
Colin King and Doug K of Gestalt Audio Design of Nashville, Tennessee, presented one of the more unusual looking rigs at AXPONA, complete with a fantastical copper-colored turntable with a steampunk clamp, a pair of bug-eyed loudspeakers each with a field-coil midrange driver, and a master controller that looked like it had been rescued or stolen from a Russian submarine circa 1957.
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Linear Tube Audio, Clayton Shaw Acoustic Lab, Atma-Sphere, Anticables
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 26, 2024  |  6 comments
The Caladan loudspeakers from Clayton Shaw Acoustics ($3000/pair) were a sleeper hit at the Capital AudioFest, so I made a beeline to the fifth floor, slow-motion elevators not withstanding.
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MoFi Distribution: Balanced Audio Technology
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 25, 2024  |  0 comments
Balanced Audio Technology’s chief designer Victor Khomenko and BAT rep Steve Shade unveiled new products in conjunction with MoFi Electronics in 334.
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Saturday Audio Exchange: Bluesound, NAD, PSB, Pangea Audio, AudioQuest
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 25, 2024  |  1 comments
In the Innovation room, operated by Joe Corona of Chicago-based dealer Saturday Audio Exchange, two systems played, both featuring new components.
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Ampsandsound, Auralic North America Inc., SME
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 24, 2024  |  0 comments
Ampsandsound’s Justin Weber brought a big pile of black vinyl to Chicago, lining the small room’s walls with album jackets. He had me at Sphongle, an electronic industrial act that churned out of the world-debut Ampsandsound Hudson 3-Way speakers ($18,000/pair) like dirty psychedelic water erupting from a broken sewer pipe.
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Well Pleased AV, Vinnie Rossi, Merason, QLN
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 22, 2024  |  0 comments
Well Pleased AV’s Mark Sossa corralled me for an early-morning listen session. I'm glad he did.
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AXPONA Coverage Resumes: Clarisys Audio USA, Convergent Audio Technology, Black Path Audio, and Essential Sound Products
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 22, 2024  |  2 comments
In the Nirvana C ballroom, Nguyen Phuong of Clarisys Audio USA played his range of Clarisys Audio Panels, of which the smaller Minuet panel had so impressed me at the recent Florida International Audio Expo.
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Legacy Audio
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 20, 2024  |  First Published: Apr 17, 2024  |  0 comments
Legacy Audio of Springfield, Illinois featured not one but three systems at AXPONA including three show debuts.
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Interview: Fyne Audio's Dr. Paul Mills and Andrzej Sosna
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 20, 2024  |  1 comments

The following interview, with Fyne Audio Technical Director Dr. Paul Mills and Managing Director Andrzej Sosna, conducted by Stereophile Contributing Editor Ken Micallef, was posted previously embedded in a report on Harmonia Distribution's rooms at AXPONA. Here, we present it on its own so that more people will see it.

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MoFi Electronics
AXPONA 2024
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 19, 2024  |  4 comments
Affable speaker designer Andrew Jones held court in room 334, explaining the details behind his new SourcePoint 888 floorstanding speakers ($4999/pair), an AXPONA world premiere (review forthcoming). Unfortunately, he couldn’t play his speakers due to the hotel’s intermittent Wi-Fi, which plagued many rooms.
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