This year the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest celebrated its tenth anniversary, which is hard to believe since it seems like only yesterday that the then-daring experiment of sponsoring a trade show in the shadow of ...

October 1, 2013 Eindhoven - Netherlands based Grimm Audio has chosen GTT Audio as its North American distributor of high performance consumer products. Grimm Audio, known in the pro world for their unparalleled master clock, ...

True story. I got a call from a friend shortly after I’d hooked up the latest Bowers & Wilkins desktop system, the Z2. I told her that I was testing the new Z2 from B&W. ...

There is always something fascinating about an audio system that represents the realization of a personal vision. Of course all audio designs partake of the subjective, as does any human activity. (Even mathematics has a ...

I remember the first time I heard ProAc Tablette speakers. It was in 1979, just before I began writing for The Absolute Sound. They were playing in a small audiophile shop in Arlington, MA. After ...

On the 2nd Floor, I found a pair of exhibits that featured Wilson Audio speakers. Sponsored by Music Lovers a noted SF high end emporium, the largest of the two housed Wilson Alexia’s positioned against ...

CAS provided me with my first look and listen to Sonus faber’s latest Olympica Series loudspeakers. At least one model anyway. On hand was Olympica’s two-way compact the Model 1, a direct replacement for the ...

Several world or US product premiers were highlights of the California Audio Show from August 9th through 11th in Burlingame California. Wilson Audio, Vacuum Tube Logic (VTL), and Sonus faber unveiled impressive new products and ...

B&W CM1 $1000bwspeakers.com Like many small speakers, this tiny, jewel-like mini-monitor trades bass extension and wide dynamics for midrange purity. Through the mids, the CM1 is magical, with a timbral realism, freedom from grain, palpability, ...

Some speakers sure know how to make an entrance. They just have a presence when you first encounter them. I know that’s how I felt when I crossed paths with the KEF LS50 a few ...

June 21, 2013 - The original Duette was Wilson Audio’s first Special Applications Engineering™ product. It was designed to offer the timbrel neutrality, dynamic contrast, soundstage depth and transparency of floorstanding Wilson loudspeakers—but do so ...

One of the best things about attending audio shows is getting to hear really promising products about to be introduced. From an editorial perspective, it helps bring to our attention products that merit full reviews. ...

July 15, 2013, Austin, Texas - The Absolute Sound (TAS) introduces its new Guide to Affordable High-End Audio. “This guide is a great resource for people wanting to get into the hobby and/or significantly improve ...

Paradigm Shift A2$279-$329paradigm.com A 2012 Golden Ear recipient, the Shift A2 is more than just a cleverly named loudspeaker. Compact, internally powered, and equipped with DSP bass management and enough backpanel inputs to connect to ...

From reading TAS, you already know Munich is a different sort of audio show. Perhaps you have seen that it is bigger than anything in the U.S., and that different manufacturers attend. If you thought ...