TAS’ very own Editor in Chief, Robert Harley, has just published the fifth edition of what was, is, and remains the best book ever written about hi-fi, his Complete Guide to High-End Audio. Introduced in ...

John McDonald, the president of Audience cables, has been in business for several decades, but he isn’t someone who makes a big fuss about the properties of his cables. They’re slim and unpretentious, even—dare I ...

One of the most fertile areas of product development in high-performance audio during the past year has been in the cable, power products, and system-tweak categories, resulting in many significant product introductions at CES. Audiophiles ...

Entry-Level Pioneer SP BS-22 loudspeaker, $129 Audioengine A2+ loudspeaker, $249 Magnepan MMG planar loudspeaker, $599 NAD D3020 solid-state integrated amplifier, $499 NuForce MCP-18 solid-state preamplifier, $599 Rega RP 1 record player, $445 AudioQuest DragonFly DAC ...

Many audiophiles think of an audio system from the perspective of The Law of Diminishing Returns. That’s the idea that each successive dollar you add to your hi-fi budget realizes progressively less sonic improvement. To ...

Wireworld always seems to end up on my short list of preferred speaker cables and interconnects. The reason? The line embodies uncolored sonics year in and year out. If we can agree that every wire ...

Some three or four years ago I reviewed what remains the most complex and ingenious cable/power-conditioning system I’ve come across in forty years of audiophilia: Synergistic Research’s Galileo system. Sonically Galileo was the very model ...

June 2014: As customer habits and preferences within the consumer electronics industry change it is important that manufacturers keep in-step accordingly, creating new products that facilitate these changes. For this reason Nordost has recently revisited ...

A visit to the Moon Audio Web site and on-line store reveals an honest passion for the high end, with a particular enthusiasm for headphones and head-amps and for the bespoke cables to drive them. ...

Acoustic Zen is best known for its high-end loudspeakers like the vaunted Crescendo 2, warmly reviewed by Dick Olsher in Issue 229. It’s no wonder that a statement product like that could easily overshadow the ...

Although this year was the first time I’ve attended AXPONA, I doubt it will be my last. I was impressed with the quality of the Westin O’Hare venue, despite the fact that most of the ...

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 ...

Van Nuys, CA, USA - March 21, 2014. WyWires, manufacturer of custom audio connection solutions, announces their new Red Series premium headphone cables. Designed to liberate audio signals from the adverse characteristics of stock conduit, ...

March 12, 2014 - Nordost is proud to present its latest addition to the Heimdall 2 range, the Heimdall 2 USB 2.0 cable. For the first time, this new USB cable brings the technological advances ...

In mid-February I escaped the miserably cold weather in Southern Ohio and flew to the relative balminess of Germany and Denmark to visit Avantgarde Acoustics in Bensheim outside of Frankfurt, and Raidho Acoustics in Pandrup ...