There, in his defiance of convenience, was a truth: Sound matters, enough to haul an electrostatic rig through Terminal 3, to trade portability for transcendence.
I signed up to cover several Fidelity Imports rooms at AXPONA, expecting to find components that overdeliver on performance and value. I wasn’t wrong.
"The Italian Renaissance, which began in Florence in the 1380s, marks the first moment when Europeans stepped away from the traditional and medieval pious Christian view of man to embrace values and attitudes they had discovered through studying the culture of the ancient world," wrote William ("Bill") Adams, a former professor of Italian history, in an email. "Those values, belief in the dignity and worth of man, in human development through education which, having spread through Europe, led to the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment."
In 1996, Bill and I journeyed to Tuscany, where we stayed in a mountaintop castle nestled within the ancient walls of San Gimignano. Returning to Italy in the summer of 2024, I embarked on a tour with kindred spirits. Our travels took us from savoring perfectly al dente pasta in Rome to indulging in boot-sized portions of tiramisu in Tuscany. We also ventured into the Treviso countryside, where we toured the Unison Research (UR) factory. This is where I had my first exposure to Unison Research's S6 Black Edition Integrated Amplifier ($6999).