To help celebrate its 40th Anniversary, The Absolute Sound has assembled the cover art from all two-hundred-and-thirty-four (234) issues of TAS for your viewing pleasure. It's been quite an amazing journey, and we've been fortunate ...

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 ...

In celebration of its 40th anniversary, The Absolute Sound is proud to present a special, digital release of The Absolute Sound, Issue 1! Take a step back in time to the early days of the ...

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 ...

The Munich show has become the “must-visit” show on of the year for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and journalists. One American manufacturer told me that if you’re not exhibiting in Munich, you’ll never break into the ...

Bellevue, WA – May 14, 2013 - Peachtree Audio's new Bluetooth Speaker, deepblue, is a one-box music system that produces room-filling sound and shockingly deep bass from a very small footprint. The sealed elliptical enclosure ...

The view from my room was Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Photographed at night, the light on this part of Madison Ave is an ethereal thing. The Gothic spires on this grand old church poked serenely through ...

The world of music has suffered a great loss: the great cellist and distinguished teacher Janos Starker died on April 28, 2013. Starker’s public career was at the highest level of distinction. Like most great ...

I don’t know anyone who is ambivalent about New York City. It’s a “love it” or “hate it” thing. My wife is not on the “love it” side of that particular fence, and I can ...

New York, NY, April 1, 2013 – A special live performance by recording artist Lori Lieberman will highlight the second day’s events at the New York Audio Show, April 12 – 14, 2013 at the ...

There can be a good deal of snobbery in audiophile circles, not only when it comes to audio equipment but also music. Now in some ways this disposition is understandable. Snobbery can sometimes be hard ...

1. Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Further Out. (Issue 209) 2. Andrew Hill: Point of Departure. (Issue 213) 3. Illinois Jacquet: Swing’s The Thing. (Issue 213) 4. Ben Webster: The Soul of Ben Webster. (Issue 216) ...