Like T.H.E. Show at The Flamingo Hotel during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, High End Munich has a parasitic "outboard" show, this year held at the Marriott. I went there specifically to visit Touraj Moghaddam and check out his Vertere line of turntables and especially his reference $20K+ pick-up arm.

During the 1960s, Dual, Elac/Benjamin-Miracord and Perpetuum Exner were Germany's leading turntable manufacturers and the brands best known to Americans. PE was probably the least well-distributed and more exotic of the three.

Thomas Brieger, Octave's Director of Sales and Marketing and Octave's owner Andreas Hofmann, take us inside the Octave Phono Module Phono Preamplifier.

The Physical Emotions Caeles turntable is certainly likely to rouse the emotions from "wow" to "WTF" and "is he kidding"?

Figured that would get your attention. Only joking.

Munich High End 2015 Day One was filled with new turntables, phono preamplifiers and cartridges. I'm posting this at 1:50AM evening one.

The lead photo is from last year's show. Preparing now for this year's show, which promises to be bigger and better—and last year's show was impressive in every way.

This year’s AXPONA Show was the best yet. It demonstrated that Chicago is a great place to hold a regional audio show—even if the city ignored it. It was well-attended by consumers and well-supported by local dealers and a wide sampling of manufacturers.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. The above one (that's my wife) is a good example of that. It was taken just after Eric sang his encore "(I Found My Thrill On) Blueberry Hill" and the crowd was still cheering.

A pin-up cover girl in 1972? Slicked back greaser hair, and while you’re at it an album jacket clothes, make-up and hair credit? Maybe you weren’t around for it in 1972 but back then this—not long hair, sandals, checked flannel shirts and bell-bottom jeans— was outrageous. Those were so yesterday-hippie.