TVTI at CAF 2025. Marc Phillips Reported: “Many of us at pt.AUDIO are unashamed to admit that no one sets up an exhibit room with such care and experience as Doug White, dealer extraordinaire, and during our Occasional Podcast covering the show we discussed our favorite room at a show full of favorite rooms and Scot Hull, … Read More
Turnbull and TIDAL and The Voice That Is | CAF 2025 “Ah, the three Ts: Turnbull and TIDAL Audio and The Voice That Is. If you see any of these three names on the sign at the entry of a high-end audio show, you should probably clear your schedule and go inside and learn about what … Read More
Tidal Ferios G2 Review by Andrew Quint is published in The Absolute Sound. To summarize the review, Andrew says, “Compared with the original Ferios amps, there was more ease to the presentation of large-scale symphonic music with the G2s. I’m not exactly sure why that should be: The original Ferios monoblocks put out 580 watts … Read More
Van den Hul The Grail V3 Phono Preamplifier | REVIEW By Marc Phillips “…I’ve heard many of the more upscale models in The Grail line-up, and many of the exhibit rooms at high-end shows as well as, most recently, a superb top-of-the-line The Grail SX over at Doug White’s The Voice That Is that was connected to the … Read More
Tidal Audio Arkas Review by Tom Martin published on YouTube by The Absolute Sound. To summarize the review, Tom says “In our listening, it is clear that the Arkas helps to address some of the big issues in digital in a musically engaging way that I think is the state of the art.” Watch the … Read More
Graig Neville writes about his experience having a the TIDAL Audio Factory Tour. “At least with an encyclopedia you can just go alphabetically through the topics, but with the TIDAL Audio factory experience it felt like everything was important. But I’ll start with the slogan “We Build Emotions.” “…Erftstadt is about a ½ hour drive … Read More
Marc Phillips writes about “…women only from YuWen Huang on One-Step LP”. “I’ve had just one concern about using YuWen Huang’s album as a reference–it’s on a “mere” CD. Up until recently I’ve had no real problems with using redbook CDs for testing components, but now things have become complicated with the arrival of the … Read More
Tidal Audio TAS Tour. Factory Tour and Listening Session: Tidal Audio – In Love With A Question by Grover Neville published on YouTube by The Absolute Sound. Originally founded in 1999, TIDAL is now one of the world’s premier loudspeaker and high-end audio manufacturers. The Absolute Sound’s Grover Neville had the opportunity to tour TIDAL’s … Read More
High End 2025: the Best of the Rest | Munich 2025. “With so much to see and report on at High End 2025 in Munich, it is just impossible for one person to do it all. [I know. –Ed.] I apologize in advance for not seeing every room. I even heard there was an off-site venue that I didn’t … Read More
Acoustical Systems A*Passion – the compact reference turntable. The A*Passion is bringing the performance of their flagship A*Stellar turntable to a much more compact and feasible size. With the black piano gloss lacquer as standard finish, other finishes are available upon request. The A*Passion Features: * identical platter design as the A*Stellar – in slightly less … Read More
