Jason Victor Serinus

T.H.E. Show Newport 2016

Hope Springs Eternal at T.H.E. Show

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 09, 2016

I've included the long view of this room to demonstrate the lengths to which Ocean Way Audio's Allen Sides, in partnership with Viola Labs, went to achieve reference quality sound at T.H.E. Show

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Day Two at T.H.E. Show: Can the Glories Continue?

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 09, 2016

Only one question followed me to the 14th floor of Hotel Irvine: Will floor 2's unprecedented number of good-sounding rooms be repeated on other floors during T.H.E. Show Newport?

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Honoring Richard Beers at T.H.E. Show

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 08, 2016

On the first night of the show, a standing-room-only assemblage of friends, associates, and supporters gathered in a huge, tented outdoor pavilion to bid adieu to Richard Lawrence Beers (July 26, 1949January 26, 2016), co-founder of The Home Entertainment Show.

T.H.E. Show Newport 2016

T.H.E. Show Newport: Can It Really Be This Good?

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 08, 2016

Was it really possible that so many excellent sounding rooms, both large and small, could be located on a single floor?

T.H.E. Show Newport 2016

T.H.E. Show Newport: The Going Keeps Going Good

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 07, 2016

That so many of the 19 rooms I entered on the second floor of Hotel Irvine sounded really good is nothing short of a miracle

T.H.E. Show Newport 2016

T.H.E. Show Newport's Amazing 2nd Floor

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 06, 2016

After the speakers totally disappeared, all that remained was truly glorious, open, clear, extremely seductive, and supremely musical sound

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T.H.E. Show Newport Really Opens

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 04, 2016

Press Day, Schmess Day. Some people were ready, some were not

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T.H.E. Show Newport Starts Friday!

Jason Victor Serinus May 31, 2016

T.H.E. Show Newport returns to its new venue at Hotel Irvine this FridaySunday, June 35, starting at 10am. By far the largest high-end consumer show on the West Coast of North America, T.H.E. Show promises 149 active exhibit rooms, with 19 of those big and even bigger than big rooms; 68 exhibit tables in the Marketplace and Marketplace foyer, including perhaps 16 headphone exhibitors in separate areas within the Marketplace. You can read the entire show guide here. . .

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Blowing the Lid off with Janácek

Jason Victor Serinus May 28, 2016

If you're looking for unusual, viscerally thrilling music guaranteed to give your system a run for its money, then Leos Janácek's Glagolitic Mass is for you. Recorded in Norway last summer by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs, conducted by Edward Gardner, this gargantuan mass is the centerpiece of Janácek Orchestral Works, Vol.3, a new, extremely well-recorded hybrid SACD from Chandos.

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Schubert's Glorious String Quintet Revisited

Jason Victor Serinus May 22, 2016

No prosaic formal classification can begin to describe the universal embrace of life and death that is Schubert's final, posthumously published String Quintet in C major, D.956, which melds characteristically Viennese gemütlichkeit with far darker forebodings. . . Those who love Schubert's final quintet await every announcement of another recording or live performance that will hopefully take them closer to the essence of Schubert's genius. Which is, in some ways, what Quatuor Ebène and cellist Gautier Capuçon's new recording of the work for Erato does.