During my recent time in Denver covering the CEDIA trade show, YG Acoustics graciously invited me to visit their local operations and experience a first listen ...
ARCAM Launches the new Radia series of HiFi Components. Very Stylish, Very Approachable, and Very British!
On the evening of October 3, 2023, at an exclusive...
Living as I do about 30 miles east of Columbus puts me in about the dead center of Ohio, geographically speaking. Mostly what you will find out here, with a cur...
Introduction
Greetings Secrets readers! We will be coming to you from the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, from September 7th to the 9th, to bring you a...
In many ways, the ATC SCM100ASLT is like the Bentley Continental GT of loudspeakers. It’s big, it’s very powerful, it’s luxuriously finished, it sounds like nothing else, and it’s very, very British.
Hello SECRETS readers! We will be bringing you coverage of the Audio Advice Live 2023 show to these pages as we ramble through the halls and rooms in Raleigh, N...
Is it about the music, the gear, or the people?
We often hear that being an audiophile is all about the music and/or the gear. But for me, it’s increasingly be...
Introduction
If you haven’t yet read Parts 1 and 2 of my audio adventure in Italy, please feel free to do so before reading this third and final installmen...
Introduction
Welcome to the second installment of our Italian Audio Press Junket and Factory Visit Tour 2023! Once again, special thanks to Fidelity Imports fo...
Introduction
After the whirlwind that was the 2023 Munich High-End show, I was invited by US distributor Fidelity Imports on a press tour visiting three of the...
A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room.
Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft.
Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001.
In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since.
Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.