Carlo Lo Raso

Bowers & Wilkins PX Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphone Review

Carlo Lo RasoAugust 29, 2018

If wireless noise cancelling headphones happen to be on your purchasing radar, the Bowers & Wilkins PX are definitely worth your time and consideration. They offer rakishly good looks, advanced design and more than a few clever touches to augment their compelling sound quality.

Headphone and Earphone Reviews

PSB M4U 8 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphone Review

Carlo Lo RasoJuly 11, 2018

Intended as a step-up from the well-received M4U 2 noise cancelling headphones, PSB’s new M4U 8 shows us how designer Paul Barton takes a good thing….and makes it wireless!

Headphone and Earphone Reviews

EAT B-Sharp Turntable Review

Carlo Lo RasoJuly 9, 2018

Looking for a deck to spin vinyl that is a step up from the norm? The B-Sharp turntable from European Audio Team may be just the ticket you’re after.

TurntablesTurntables

A Tale of 3 Wireless Bluetooth Headphones First Look

Carlo Lo RasoJune 13, 2018

I found myself in the interesting position of having three different high performance wireless Bluetooth headphones in my possession at the same time.

Product Previews

A Conversation with Mark Waldrep

Carlo Lo RasoMay 22, 2018

During my preparations for the review of Mark Waldrep’s book, Music and Audio: A User Guide to Better Sound (link), I was able to interview Mark by phone from his home on the California coast. We discussed the new book and touched on various aspects of his career in music and on the state of high-resolution audio in general.

Tours, Interviews and Book Reviews

Music and Audio: A User Guide To Better Sound – Book Review

Carlo Lo RasoApril 25, 2018

Many of our Secrets readers are, undoubtedly, already familiar with Mark Waldrep. His AIX Records audiophile label has been producing high-resolution music in stereo and multi-channel surround sound for almost twenty years. Mark recently decided to draw upon his 40 years of combined audio engineering, production and teaching experience to put together what amounts to a reference book about high-resolution audio. It neatly covers practically every link in the chain, from studio production to home playback.

Tours, Interviews and Book Reviews

HiFiMAN RE2000 In-Ear Monitor Review

Carlo Lo RasoMarch 26, 2018

While mostly known for their over-the-ear headphones, HiFiMAN also produces some notable in-ear monitors as well. The RE2000, that we have here, is their top o...

Headphone and Earphone Reviews

European Audio Team “B-Sharp” Turntable First Look.

Carlo Lo RasoMarch 5, 2018

See the complete review of the EAT B-Sharp Turntable European Audio Team (EAT for short) is a name that is new to my ears but has been around as an audio com...

Product Previews

Paradigm Persona 7F Loudspeaker Review

Carlo Lo RasoFebruary 15, 2018

The project brief here was a simple one. Distill everything Paradigm has developed and learned over its 35-year history into a single, statement speaker lin...

Floor Standing Speakers

Bryston BDA-3 DAC Review

Carlo Lo RasoJanuary 15, 2018

Bryston tempts our sonic sensibilities with a DAC that not only possesses enviable decoding performance but also has every conceivable connection type, including four HDMI inputs!

DACs

Audio-Technica VM540ML Phono Cartridge Review

Carlo Lo RasoNovember 20, 2017

The Audio-Technica VM540ML is a very good quality phono cartridge whose performance is quite comptetive against some of the more expensive cartridge...

Turntable AccessoriesVinyl Accessories

MartinLogan Crescendo X Networked Speaker Review

Carlo Lo RasoOctober 30, 2017

The MartinLogan Crescendo X is a stylish looking and great sounding networked speaker that can bring you your music from a variety of sources, whether they be wired or wireless. It incorperates the latest Blutooth functionality, is AirPlay certified and can be controlled in depth through the DTS: Play-Fi app on either Android or iOS devices.

Wireless Speakers

B&W 803 D3 Floor Standing Loudspeaker Review

Carlo Lo RasoSeptember 18, 2017

The B&W 803 D3 is part of a top-to-bottom, revolutionary rethink of an iconic speaker line. It features cutting edge speaker technologies combined with avant-garde styling to bring the end user something truly special, both visually and sonically.

Floor Standing Speakers

Paradigm Persona 7F Floorstanding Loudspeaker Preview

Carlo Lo RasoSeptember 5, 2017

Ever since Paradigm unveiled their statement prototype speaker the Concept 4F, back at CES 2016, it was plain to see that it was a harbinger of a special new series of speakers.

Product Previews

HiFiMAN RE2000 In-Ear Monitor Preview

Carlo Lo RasoSeptember 5, 2017

As a rule, I personally tend to prefer wearing headphones over earphones. I find them, on the whole, to be more comfortable, less fiddly to deal with and I seem to enjoy the sound more while either at home or on the go. Consequently, I’ve been fortunate enough to sample a number of headphone models from HiFiMAN over the years...

Product Previews

Carlo Lo Raso

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.

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