by Michael

2012 Capital Audiofest July 13-15 Washington DC

[Yay! More shows!]

“The 2012 Capital Audiofest is set for July 13-15 in the Washington DC
area, and will again be at Crown Plaza Hotel but with more of
everything so will be bigger and better. More quality playback
equipment, listening rooms, display table space, retailers, audio and
video manufacturers and live music. Last year we had approximately
1000 attendees exploring 30 rooms which isnt bad for a two year old
show! This year we plan to have 50-60 rooms along with more of everything. .
If you have not read the rave reviews by Stereophile’s own John
Atkinson, then please go to the CAF website www.capitalaudiofest.com
and link to Stereophile and other great commentary found on the
internet. Please contact me if you are interested in rate and room
information so you can reserve now.www.capitalaudiofest.com.”

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 by Michael

Updating the Audiophile's Guide to High-end Audio Magazines

Been awhile since this got updated in a serious way.

I keep a list of Audio blogs for Mattters, and am finally getting around to updating the Audiophile’s Guide to High-end Audio Magazines.

Putting all the new sites more or less alphabetically in the Blogs section – almost all the new sites are blogs or written on top of a blog [i.e. WordPress].

There are quite a few. It’ll take awhile.

I’m adding the:

* good sites.

* the unethical site’s that are quite obviously ‘run an ad and we’ll write rave reviews of your equipment’ [in the hope that people will eventually become immune to these kind of review scams].

* and… I’m not sure about adding the ‘measurements reveal all – no need to listen, and people who listen are delusional and psychotic’ sites – feeling they are more about playing with test measurement gear [not that there is anything wrong with that!] than anything to do with high-end audio.

Some of the good sites get way less traffic than they should. A couple are:

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