Daniel Barnum is the owner of Half Note Audio, the U.S. distributor for an array of fine European high-end audio components such as the legendary ASR Emitter II integrated amp, Rolf-Kelch turntables, Tidal Audio loudspeakers and electronics, and much more. Besides being European, the one other characteristic that the lines Half Note Audio distributes, is how very expensive they are. I use to accuse Daniel of being an audio elitist who didn’t carry products unless you needed a second mortgage to afford them.

Then one day, he shocked me: “You know Dave, I carry an affordable speaker line.” What?! Stop the presses! Hell has frozen over! The Cubs have won the World Series! Could this be true? Did Daniel actually discover a European speaker builder whose designs measure up to his lofty standards and are affordable? The answers are yes and relatively speaking.

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