Part-Time Audiophile

12/23/2025

An Interview With Teenage Speaker Designer Lucca Chesky

There is a bit of a double play going on this week on our Occasional Podcast! We have both an in-depth interview with 19-year-old Lucca Chesky and a verbal breakdown of all the big hits from the pt.AWARDS season, including Product Of The Year, Best Value Of The Year and Best Bookshelf awards! Lucca Chesky's LC1 and now the LC2 bookshelf speakers…...

There is a bit of a double play going on this week on our Occasional Podcast! We have both an in-depth interview with 19-year-old Lucca Chesky and a verbal breakdown of all the big hits from the pt.AWARDS season, including Product Of The Year, Best Value Of The Year and Best Bookshelf awards!

12/22/2025

That's a wrap for 2025. What will we be doing in 2026? REVIEWS.

12/21/2025

pt.AUDIO’s 2025 Product of the Year

It certainly gets harder and harder to pick the nominees for the pt.AUDIO Product Awards with each passing year--and this was an endeavor that started off with a high level of difficulty since this industry is so competitive. But this year I understood why pt.AUDIO's 2025 Product of the Year nominees were so hard to choose. Every year we've made a subtle effort to move upscale in our industry coverage and our equipment reviews, and it comes down to this: …...

It certainly gets harder and harder to pick the nominees for the pt.AUDIO Product Awards with each passing year--and this was an endeavor that started off with a high level of difficulty since this industry is so competitive. But this year I understood why pt.AUDIO's 2025 Product of the Year nominee...

12/21/2025

Coming tomorrow...

12/20/2025

Best Bookshelf Speaker of 2025

The Acora Acoustics MRB-1 loudspeakers have been awarded pt.AUDIO's 2025 MP Award for Best Bookshelf Speaker due to their exceptional performance, capable of energizing large spaces. Praised for their dynamics and imaging, the MRB-1s impressively compete with much pricier models, establishing themselves as top contenders in the bookshelf speaker market....

Winner of pt.AUDIO's 2025 MP Award If you want to know why the Acora Acoustics MRB-1 loudspeakers are my pick for pt.AUDIO's 2025 MP Award for Best Bookshelf Speaker, we have to start at the beginning--which is just over a year ago at the

12/19/2025

2025 Best Value Award

The pt.AUDIO Best Value Award illustrates, year after year, that there's more to this category than mere affordability. I think when we first envisioned the Best Value category, we wanted to highlight inexpensive hi-fi gear that "punched above its weight," the kind of equipment that would attract new people to the hobby before they were discouraged by the inevitable long-term sticker shock....

The pt.AUDIO Best Value Award illustrates, year after year, that there's more to this category than mere affordability. I think when we first envisioned the Best Value category, we wanted to highlight inexpensive hi-fi gear that "punched above its weight," the kind of equipment that would attract ne...

12/16/2025

Buyers Guide For The Best HiFi 2025 | The Occasional Podcast

By now you have hopefully had time to check out the massive 2025 Buyer's Guide from pt.AUDIO. The Best HiFi 2025 was released this weekend like a tidal wave of audio awesomeness, and Editor-In-Chief Marc Phillips joins Brian Hunter on The Occasional Podcast to provide a in-person recap to everything that is new, high ranking and well... totally awesome. Marc breaks down all the choices made by the pt.AUDIO staff and also covers how the "best" products in HiFi actually get selected for the Buyers Guide 2025....

By now you have hopefully had time to check out the massive 2025 Buyer's Guide from pt.AUDIO. The Best HiFi 2025 was released this weekend like a tidal wave of audio awesomeness, and Editor-In-Chief Marc Phillips joins Brian Hunter on The Occasional Podcast to provide a in-person recap to everything...

12/14/2025

Best Hi-Fi Accessories 2025: pt.AUDIO’s Buyers Guide to Vinyl, Racks, Isolation & Setup Tools

Welcome to the 2025 Buyers Guide from pt.AUDIO! This page will cover Best Hi-Fi Accessories 2025 for High-End Audio. We know that the term "best" in high-end audio shouldn't really exist because that ignores personal preferences. By using "Best" in the Buyers Guide, we're simply stating that this is the audio gear we're excited about, right now, based on both reviews and significant seat time....

Welcome to the 2025 Buyers Guide from pt.AUDIO! This page will cover Best Hi-Fi Accessories 2025 for High-End Audio. We know that the term "best" in high-end audio shouldn't really exist because that ignores personal preferences. By using "Best" in the Buyers Guide, we're simply stating that this is...

12/14/2025

2025’s Best Cables, Power and Grounding | Buyers Guide 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Buyers Guide from pt.AUDIO! This page will cover 2025's Best Cables, Power and Grounding. We know that the term "best" in high-end audio shouldn't really exist because that ignores personal preferences. By using "Best" in the Buyers Guide, we're simply stating that this is the audio gear we're excited about, right now, based on both reviews and significant seat time....

Welcome to the 2025 Buyers Guide from pt.AUDIO! This page will cover 2025's Best Cables, Power and Grounding. We know that the term "best" in high-end audio shouldn't really exist because that ignores personal preferences. By using "Best" in the Buyers Guide, we're simply stating that this is the au...

12/14/2025

2025’s Best Headphone Gear | Buyers Guide 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Buyers Guide from pt.AUDIO! This page will cover 2025's Best Headphone Gear. We know that the term "best" in high-end audio shouldn't really exist because that ignores personal preferences. By using "Best" in the Buyers Guide, we're simply stating that this is the audio gear we're excited about, right now, based on both reviews and significant seat time....

Welcome to the 2025 Buyers Guide from pt.AUDIO! This page will cover 2025's Best Headphone Gear. We know that the term "best" in high-end audio shouldn't really exist because that ignores personal preferences. By using "Best" in the Buyers Guide, we're simply stating that this is the audio gear we'r...