CAF 2025: Favorite Familiar Gear
Michael Lavorgna | Nov 18, 2025
I first met Brian Charney of Charney Audio in 2005 on my very first Road Tour article for 6moons. What was a Road Tour?
As I explained in 2005:
This will be the first in a planned mini-series of home audio visitations. With gasoline approaching $3.00 per gallon, you may very well wonder why I would want to drive around NJ to listen to other people’s gear? The answer is simple – this is the end result of all this thinking, writing, talking, listening, haggling and haranguing over audio. How people actually live with their systems; how this becomes a personal experience once this stuff leaves the dealer or manufacturer (or previous owner). Whether or not I care for the sound is of very little relevance to the subject at hand. The fact that the people I’ll meet have put together a system they want to share is what counts. And what does this actually mean to them? How does owning and enjoying a Hi-Fi fit into their lives?
Fast forward some 20 years and we find Brian continuing his exploration of single driver horn-loaded loudspeakers and tube amplifiers (and more) as Charney Audio.