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Elac Navis ARB-51 Active Loudspeaker
Neil Gader reviews yet another impressive speaker designed by Andrew Jones. -
CES 2019 Highlights
Neil Gader shares the audio highlights seen and heard at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. -
CES 2019 Report
Robert Harley has the scoop on the Las Vegas show’s top new high-end audio introductions. -
Preview: The Zellaton Stage Loudspeakers
Like many long-time TAS readers, I have been on a multi-decade quest to achieve the absolute sound—the illusion of hearing actual acoustic instruments playing in ... -
The Absolute Sound's Buyer's Guide to Loudspeakers 2018
The Absolute Sound’s new 2018 Buyer’s Guide to Loudspeakers is your essential one-stop resource for reviews and insights on all types of speakers...
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Equipment report2019 Editors' Choice Awards: Integrated Systems
|Riva Arena/Festival $249 (optional Arena battery, $99)/$499 Riva’s two, wireless, multi-room systems in the Wand series offer stunning sound quality from small packages. The compact Arena ($249) and the larger Festival ($499) are both easy ...read more -
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Album reviewEric Bibb: Global Griot
|Exploring the themes of unity, inclusiveness, and social justice from a spiritual perspective, Eric Bibb delivers a double-disc masterpiece in Global Griot, an album ideally suited to the temper of progressive times, or “challenging times,” ...read more -
Equipment report2019 Editors' Choice Awards: Loudspeakers $100,000 and up
|Lansche No.7 $105,000–$113,000 depending on finish With its massless corona-plasma tweeter, the Lansche No.7 brings something different to the upper-end-loudspeaker arena. This driver works by modulating a plasma field surrounding an electrical arc, producing sound ...read more -
Equipment reportThe 12 Most Significant Power Amplifiers of All Time
|Kondo Audio Note Ongaku Resurrecting a Lost Art Hiroyasu Kondo resigned his position as an audio circuit designer at CBS to follow his dream of creating an amplifier that delivered “natural sound” free from “mechanical” ...read more -
NewsPrimaLuna EVO Series Debuts at Axpona
|The following is a press release issued by PrimaLuna. April 12, 2019 - PrimaLuna’s new EVO Sereis of Tube Electronics will make its North American trade show debut next week at AXPONA, 12-14 April, at ...read more -
BlogTechDAS Air Force Zero Turntable Preview
|There are some pieces of equipment that immediately leap to the forefront of the audio world. The new TechDAS Air Force Zero turntable is such a piece. It stands at the very pinnacle of audio ...read more -
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Album reviewMedeski Martin & Wood: Omnisphere | John Medeski’s Mad Skillet
|Over the past 25 years, the trailblazing, nearly-telepathic trio of keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood has developed its own potent language based on equal allegiances to the groove and the ...read more -
NewsMQA Champions Master Quality Sound at AXPONA 2019
|The following is a press release issued by MQA. New York/London | 10 April 2019 - MQA, the pioneering company delivering authenticated master quality music in a file small enough to stream, will be participating ...read more -
NewsAudio Research Launches New Special Edition Update to CD6 and CD9 Products
|The following is a press release issued by Audio Research. MAPLE GROVE, MN | April 9th, 2019–Audio Research is pleased to announce a special edition update to the CD6 and Reference CD9 Transport/DAC. The new ...read more -
Equipment reportAudio-Technica AT-LP7 Turntable
|With the arrival of Audio-Technica’s new turntable, its top-of-the-line AT-LP7, I’m back in my comfort zone, happy to have a new record player in my listening room, especially one that looks as nice as the ...read more
