At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Axiss Audio's Steve Huntley and Bel Canto Design's President Michael McCormick about the gear shown in another one of the Axiss rooms at the show, including a Transrotor Dark Star turntable, Bel Canto Design Black system—which includes the ESC2 system controller and MPS2 monoblock amplifiers—and Franco Serblin Accordo Unica speakers.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Fern & Roby's Christopher Hildebrand about the gear shown in the company's room at the show, including a Fern & Roby The Archival turntable, Linear Tube Audio ZOTL Ultralinear power amplifier, and Fern & Roby Raven II bookshelf speakers.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Western HiFi's Mike Stephens about the gear shown in the company's room at the show, including a Consonance Linear200 MkII integrated amplifier, Consonance Compact Monitors, and a Well Tempered Lab Amadeus Jr/T3 turntable.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Esoteric's Hiroyuki "Hiro" Machida about the gear shown in one of the company's rooms at the show, including an Esoteric K-05XD SACD player, Esoteric N-05XE network DAC/preamplifier, and Esoteric S-05XE amplifier.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Avantgarde Acoustic's International Sales Manager Jérôme Andre about the gear shown in American Sound's room at the show, including Avantgarde Acoustic Opus 1 speakers, an AirTight ATC-6 preamplifier, and a Synthesis Embrace HDP 300B headphone amplifier.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with High Water Sound's Jeffrey Catalano about the gear shown in the company's room at the show, including a TW Acustic Raven LS-3 Copper turntable, Acustica Applicata Alieno Phono Extremo phono stage, and a truly limited edition Cessaro Horn Acoustics Opus SE speaker pair.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Michell's Jonathan Nye (shown above), Opera Loudspeakers' Bartolomeo Nasta, and Unison Research's Augustino Zemai about the gear shown in one of Fidelity Imports' rooms at the show; many of these products were making their respective U.S. debuts.
At AXPONA 2026, Miguel Barrio speaks with Head of Dynaudio Academy Otto Jørgensen about the gear shown in the company's room, which featured the new Dynaudio Legend bookshelf speakers.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Amspandsound founder Justin Weber about the gear shown in the company's room, including the Ampsandsound Badlands preamplifier, Ampsandsound Stereo 17 – Little Nugget amplifier, and Ampsandsound Seneca 2-way speakers.
At AXPONA 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Sierra Sound co-founder Michael Fajen (in the foreground) and Aesthetix sales and marketing specialist Brent Hefley (in the reflection) about the gear shown in the Sierra Sound room, including the AMG Viella turntable with 12JT Turbo tonearm, Aesthetix Rhea Signature phono stage, and Aesthetix Dione amplifier. Plus: we get to visit "The Tonearm Garden."