Fern & Roby Factory Tour Retrospective | The Millennial Audiophile

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RICHMOND, VA (PTA) — Throughout the year of 2019, a few of us at Part-Time Audiophile have spent what we see as a warranted amount of time in adoration of everything Fern & Roby. From the more obvious components like turntables and speakers, to the less obvious amplifier chassis builds made for Linear Tube Audio (LTA). One could say, that a lot of our eagerly given attention for Fern & Roby comes in the form of admiration for Fern & Roby’s founder and chief designer Christopher Hildebrand. Mr. Hildebrand could be best described as an intense, gritty, and yet warm figure of cherub like demeanor. It is he for whom the Fern & Roby brand owes the best parts of its character. Looking Back To say that our 2019 coverage of Fern & Roby tells the complete story would be remiss. To suggest that Marc Phillips and myself were the foremost to take notice of Fern & Roby, and thus be the first expense ourselves on a journey to visit the factory, would be a criminal act. Back in 2017, during what some might call the beginnings of our glory years, our then intrepid Rafe Arnott trekked (via dog sled) […]

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