T.H.E. Show 2019
Neil Gader brings you news and highlights from the evolving Southern California show.
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T+A elektroakustik Talis S 300 Loudspeaker
T+A elektroakustik is a major high-end presence in Europe with 120 dealers in Germany alone. Deliberately and incrementally, T+A has been working on achieving greater ... -
MUNICH 2019: Sources and Cables
Munich High End is undoubtedly the largest high-end audio extravaganza in the world. It not only featured some of the best products recently displayed at ... -
Munich High End 2019: Loudspeakers
Jonathan Valin reports on the most compelling speakers and the best sounds at the show. -
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BlogHarry Potter: The John Williams Soundtrack Collection
|John Williams composed the music for the first three Harry Potter films (The Sorcerer’s Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, and The Prisoner of Azkaban), and now the complete scores have been released for the first ...read more -
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NewsAlibaba Group's Xiami Music is the First Music Streaming Service in China to Add MQA Studio Quality Audio
|LONDON/HANGZHOU | JULY 16th, 2019 - Xiami Music, a wholly-owned entity of the Alibaba Group, will be the first music streaming service in China to adopt MQA. With the implementation of MQA, Xiami Music will ...read more -
Equipment reportEarsonics EM10 Custom-Fit In-Ear Monitor
|EarsSonics’ EM10 is the French firm’s flagship custom-fit in-ear monitor. Unlike the EM9, the EM10 is offered only as a CIEM, but not as a universal-fit earphone. The EM10 and EM9 share many similarities but ...read more -
Equipment reportAudio Research Corporation Reference 160M Monoblock Amplifier
|Since I first heard William Zane Johnson’s D76 stereo amplifier and SP3 full-function preamp back in the early 1970s, I’ve been a fan of Audio Research electronics. Indeed, I’ve owned and reviewed more gear from ...read more -
Album reviewRob Reich: Swings Left
|Jazz as dance music? There was a time when that wasn’t even a question. Has the time come again for upbeat, swinging, danceable jazz? Rob Reich answers that question in the affirmative on this album ...read more -
Blog2019 TAS Super LP List
|Of the many articles and reviews that Harry Pearson wrote for The Absolute Sound, his annual Super LP List (aka SuperDisc List) may have been the most eagerly anticipated. The issue in which it was ...read more -
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Equipment reportAesthetix Mimas Integrated Amplifier
|Aesthetix Audio Corporation is the Southern California-based high-end electronics company revered for its bespoke tube and tube/hybrid electronics, many of which have been reviewed in these pages. Built to uncompromising standards, its components fall squarely ...read more -
NewsAudioQuest Introduces High-Performance Portable USB DAC: DragonFly Cobalt
|The following is a press release issued by AudioQuest. In 2012, the original AudioQuest DragonFly thoroughly disrupted the DAC market. For so many casual enthusiasts who had never previously considered the possibility of improving their ...read more -
BlogThe Rebirth of Quad
|I have fallen in love—again—with quadraphonic sound. In 1972, I purchased a state-of-the-art Sylvania CR2743W stereo amp with built-in Phase Q4 Matrix four-channel circuitry. In stereo quadraphonic systems (SQ), four sound channels were converted down ...read more -
Equipment reportConstellation Revelation Series Pictor Linestage, Andromeda Phonostage, and Taurus Monoblock Power Amplifier
|Constellation Audio burst onto the high-end audio scene in 2010 with the highly acclaimed, ultra-expensive Altair linestage and Hercules mono amplifier (reviewed in Issue 215). The company followed up with the equally well-received but lower-priced ...read more
