10. No need to leave the exhibit area in search of food. 9. Product spiels are in German, so you don’t feel guilty about tuning them out. 8. Million dollar cars with high zoot audio ...

The top 5 weirdest products seen at this year's Munich show.

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 ...

Perhaps it’s no surprise, given that Munich is smack dab in the middle of car country, that the city’s audio show also included a miniature auto show. Of course, this particular auto event was open ...

If last year’s New York Audio Show was a rebirth, 2013 saw its fruition. Everything about this year’s show was better. “We can actually get our gear to the rooms,” marveled Andy Singer of Sound ...

Reviewers constantly see gear come and go, but, as you can imagine, we regret the parting of some pieces more than others. Roughly two years ago Esoteric had to pry its K-03 player from my ...

Sufjan Stevens fans tend to cut their hero a lot of slack. After all, his last full-length album of new material was Illinois—a towering blend of rock structures, classical composition techniques, and poetic lyrics. His ...

I realize that Esoteric is best known for its transports, which it sells as full-fledged components as well as raw mechanisms that, in turn, form the guts of other manufacturers’ products. However, since my review ...

Robert Harley recently sang the praises of the nifty AudioQuest DragonFly (Issue 226). He covered its performance when the device is used as a USB DAC fronting a reference audio system, and compared it to ...

February 13, 2013. - Monday, England's digital specialist Meridian introduced a device meant to compete directly with Audioquest's wildly successful Dragonfly. Like that watershed product, Meridian's product, dubbed The Explorer, is an affordable USB DAC ...

On the first morning of the show, I sat next to Robert Deutsch of Stereophile in the McIntosh room, noshing on bagels and fruit while awaiting the start of the press briefing. We were tended ...

From a speaker-designer’s perspective, $15,000 is a tricky price point. Above that, there is plenty of room to lavish resources on extensive R&D (e.g.—the KEF Blade), ultrarigid enclosures (the big Wilsons, Magico’s Q series), and ...

Next week, Bryston will begin shipping its BDA-2 DAC, the much-anticipated update to the Golden Ear Award-winning BDA-1. The BDA-1 set something of a standard for DACs at and even above its price point of ...

Robert Harley recently sang the praises of the nifty AudioQuest Dragonfly. He covered its performance when the device is used as a USB DAC fronting a reference audio system, and compared it to other outboard ...

The Chester Group, which earlier this year successfully resuscitated the once lively but recently moribund New York Audio Show, has announced plans to improve and expand next year’s version. First and foremost is a change ...