With the current analog revival showing no signs of slowing down, and the prices of today’s best gear continuing to escalate, it’s only natural for audio companies to expand their offerings upmarket. Indeed, at least ...

As soon as I was old enough to drive I would make regular treks from my parents’ house on the Peninsula to what for many years was one of the country’s great record stores, Tower ...

Take advantage of a rare opportunity to learn how Neil Gader -- TAS Associate Editor and Acquisitions Manager, and high-end audio journalist for more than 20 years -- reviews a hi-fi system. He'll be at ...

Did you ever think about the possibility of “reading” record grooves? Well, neither did I until my wife and I attended a New Year’s Eve party with several physician colleagues and their wives around 1980. ...

Introduction So, for CES/T.H.E. Show 2014 I was on a mission to find that aural high—and find it I did, though some of the places were surprising. My assignment was to cover not only loudspeakers ...

December 14, 2013 - Brinkmann Audio of Germany announces the launch of Brinkmann USA as its direct-to-dealer sales arm in the United States for the company’s award-winning line of turntables, tonearms, phono cartridges and analog ...

Cliffwood, NJ, December 10, 2013 – VPI Industries, the leader in vinyl playback systems and record cleaning technology, today announced the introduction of The Nomad, the world’s first vinyl playback lifestyle system that offers music ...

There’s much to be said for a product that precisely defines its purpose and then proceeds to fulfill it to near perfection. The British designer Jon Palmer set out to make a high-end turntable that ...

The majority of the rooms I visited were playing vinyl or tape per my assignment. That little fact may have added to my belief that RMAF 2013 had the best overall sound I’ve experienced at ...

Most readers of show reports tend to point out the rooms or equipment that a reviewer missed during the show, as if he should have covered them all. However, any seasoned audiophile/music lover who has ...

October 11, 2013 - Live streaming video of RMAF 2013 will be provided by EnjoytheMusic.com. Please check the schedule below to see what content will be available during the show. Live Interactive Streaming Schedule Note: ...

Elsewhere in this issue I discuss the best source component I’ve ever heard—the united Home Audio UHA-HQ Phase 11 tape deck. I’m about to discuss the second best. As a lot of you already know, ...

The wonderful New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin frequently draws amusing tableaux picturing human evolution from fish to man. One favorite ends with a strutting Groucho Marx brandishing a large cigar. Another shows a startled restaurant ...

YOU WANT TO ANNOY AN AUDIOPHILE? You know you do. It’s a fun game the whole family can play. Goes like this. Find a sucker who just spent a pile of money on a DAC ...

When I played him Rapsodie espagnole from a test pressing of Chad Kassem’s soon-to-be-released (October 8), 200-gram Analogue Productions’ reissue of RCA LSC-2183 The Reiner Sound, my buddy and TAS Music Editor Mark Lehman, whose ...