Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 12 minutesLet us begin by first getting a few things out of the way. Yes, there is an actual Dr. Feickert. In fact, Dr. Christian Feickert holds a PhD in both physics and chemistry. He worked for years as a research scientist in the European chemical industry. A lifelong lover of music and vinyl LPs, in 2002 Read More »

Reading Time: 7 minutesOne of the more challenging questions for many audiophiles who own a physical media collection is how to both play your Compact Discs and get them ripped to your network server or wherever you like to keep your music files. Apple still sells an Optical Disc drive. but this under-$100 component isn’t very audiophile, nor Read More »

Reading Time: 8 minutesArgentPur is a company that is fairly new to me as a long-time audiophile, and this review is the first time I had any of their products in my house. I will tell you I was just a bit skeptical, as I knew the company as a manufacturer of upscale silver cables rather than as Read More »

Reading Time: 10 minutesTo say I can’t believe that it has been three years since we started FutureAudiophile.com might be a little bit clichéd, but is completely truthful. 2025 has been an absolutely brutal year, with the Palisades Fire that destroyed our home. 10 months later, we are still waiting for the money needed to restore our home to January Read More »

Reading Time: 7 minutesBias is a funny thing sometimes. When I was told that there was a set of headphones coming to me from Romania, I was skeptical at first. I have only met a few people in my life from the Eastern European country, and I really had never thought of it as a place where you Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutesAfter cutting the grass and raking the leaves at almost every one of the neighbors’ homes surrounding my Mom and Dad’s house, I had finally saved the requisite sum of money to purchase my first audiophile stereo system. My Mom, ever the kind soul, took me to the stereo store to purchase my beloved system. Read More »