Friday, July 25, 5 – 8pm: Please join Music Lovers (2295 Bush Street, San Francisco) for an open house with AudioQuest’s Bill Low (founder and CEO), Joe Harley (SVP, Marketing and Product Development), and Skylar ...

The Feickert Woodpecker was first introduced in 2008 and has gone through some performance upgrades and refinements over the past few years. In 2012–2013 the Woodpecker received a bearing update, a motor/controller/hardware/software update, and a ...

What ignited your interest in the high end? Did it come from the music side or the electronics side? It came from the music side. My family has always been music-oriented, so it was natural ...

AudioVision San Francisco has gained a reputation in the Bay Area and the West Coast as one of the best high-end retailers as well as an audio enthusiast’s paradise. Owned and operated by Antonio Long ...

Blue Note records is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. To help mark it, Ron Rambach of MusicMatters is remastering, together with Kevin Gray, twenty-five Blue Note albums at 33rpm, to accompany the numerous ones ...

We at The Absolute Sound are proud to announce the latest addition to our line of popular Buyer’s Guides, the 2014 Guide to Affordable High-End Audio—available as a FREE download right now. We worked long ...

T.H.E. Show at Newport in Southern California is a far more relaxed and convivial affair than the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Not least of its attractions is that it remains for the most ...

Who would have thought that at T.H.E. Show Newport–the 2014 edition–LP playback would continue to assert its dominance as THE sexy audio medium. Meanwhile there were attendees bearing their trusty CDs who, with fingers crossed, ...

What’s the ultimate purpose of a turntable? To spin a vinyl record at a precise speed without introducing any vibrations into the cartridge. Of course, this is the holy grail of turntable design, and basically ...

The Munich 2014 High End Show featured more turntables on display than any other show I’ve attended this year—perhaps as many as I’ve see at all the major U.S. audio shows in 2014 combined! Companies ...

The best time in an audiophile’s life must be when he or she discovers a truly great product that doesn’t completely ruin the budget. It’s like the car enthusiast who dreams of owning a Bugatti, ...

Want to have your copy of The Absolute Sound’s Illustrated History of High-End Audio, Volume One: Loudspeakers signed by some of the greatest loudspeaker designers in the world? Read on to find out more! The ...

Road Trip! Those were the words of Jonathan Valin earlier this year when he asked if I was interested in covering analog at AXPONA Chicago this year. I checked my schedule, shifted a few things ...

After last year’s exciting debut, I think everyone at TAS was expecting AXPONA Chicago 2014 to be a huge success—and it may well have been financially. (Several record dealers told me that they had never ...

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 ...