Las Vegas was awash in new high-performance audio cables and power products—from exotic new interconnects and loudspeaker cables to some surprisingly affordable power conditioners and USB and Ethernet cables. These essential components lifted the performance ...

The latest generation of reference-quality, multi-driver loudspeakers approaching the state of the art have several things in common: cabinets that go to fanatical lengths to reduce and control resonances; sophisticated crossovers utilizing very expensive high-quality ...

John Franks, founder and CEO of Chord Electronics, was on-hand at a special dealer event last week at Audio High to personally debut Chord’s DSX-1000 network streamer and showcase other exciting DACs and electronics from ...

According to a recent poll of our editors and reviewers (TAS 216), the AR XA was ranked as the most significant turntable in the history of analog playback. If you ever lived with the AR ...

Like fine wine, the work of many of the best designers in the audio arts appears to improve as they age and are able to bring to bear their wealth of experience, aided by years ...

Held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Burlingame in the San Francisco Bay Area from August 3-5, this year’s California Audio Show (CAS) was quite memorable. CAS-organizer Constantine Soo and his team should be congratulated ...

Several significant high-performance audio products made their US, consumer, and/or worldwide debuts at the 3rd Annual California Audio Show from August 3rd through 5th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Burlingame, California. This was a ...

Have you ever attended an “amplified” live performance by a symphony orchestra, opera, or musical theater company, a dance troupe, choral group, or jazz band, and been completely underwhelmed by the overall sonics, even when ...

As KEF celebrates its 50th Anniversary, I thought it would be interesting to look at the early association between KEF and The Absolute Sound. As one of the first loudspeaker companies to offer high-performance loudspeakers, ...

Several major new products had their U.S. premieres at the California Audio Show (CAS) this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of these new entries were sonically stunning, despite the “challenging” room acoustics ...

Several major new products had their U.S. premieres at the California Audio Show (CAS) this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of these new entries were sonically stunning, despite the “challenging” room acoustics ...

Editor's Note: I attended the California Audio Show in Burlingame today. I thought I might stay for a few hours, but I spent the entire day listening to some stunning systems, hearing some incredible music, ...

Much to my dismay, I have found that most systems in recording studios are sonically underwhelming and do not come close to satisfying demanding audiophiles. I had assumed that the sound in a mastering studio ...

Editor's Note: Mike Hobson, co-founder of High Resolution Technologies unveiled the iStreamer before a packed audience at the San Francisco MusicFest conference on Monday, December 6th. It is a "high quality digital music interface for ...

JH Note: Recently, I had the pleasure of listening to Teresonic’s flagship loudspeaker, the Ingenium Silver with Lowther DX4 drivers, at the home of Jack Roberts, accompanied by Mike Zivkovic, the leader of Teresonic’s design ...