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LA Audio Show Report: Loudspeakers
|Great audio shows are not born overnight—they are works in progress. The inaugural LA Audio Show at the Sheraton-Gateway Hotel proved that despite some organizational hiccups there is much potential still to be mined. Indeed, ...read more -
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Meridian Audio in the Jaguar F-Pace SUV
|Back in the mid-1980s, Infinity Systems, which had just been bought by Harman, introduced the idea of branded, premium in-car audio by offering Infinity audio systems in Chrysler vehicles. Of course, today every auto manufacturer ...read more -
Munich High End 2017: Loudspeakers
|Imagine a collision between CES and CEDIA when both were at their peak, and you’ll have an idea of how enormous and jam-packed with goodies Munich High End is. There’s simply nothing else like it ...read more -
2017 Editors' Choice: Loudspeakers $10,000-$20,000
|Sony SS-NA2ES $10,000 Inspired by the flagship Sony SS-AR1 and SS-AR2, but brought to a lower price, the NA2ES shares many virtues with its bigger brothers, and only limited losses from having to meet the ...read more -
LA Audio Show Debuts June 2-4
|You may have heard the news by now: There’s a new show on the block, the LA Audio Show that will be held June 2–4 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel (not far from LAX). This ...read more -
Q&A with Daniela Manger of Manger Audio
|How did your interest in high-end audio begin? I grew up with it, really. My father began developing the Manger sound transducer in the late Sixties. What was your first high-end system? What year was ...read more -
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Aerial Model 5T Loudspeaker
|You don’t need to be a connoisseur of compact loudspeakers to recognize that the Aerial Acoustics Model 5T is quite a looker. Short (a mere 15" in height), dark, and handsome, it’s a gracefully proportioned ...read more -
JV and JM Visit Audioarts in NYC
|Why is it that, every now and then, something sounds “real” through a stereo system rather than “reproduced”? If you’re expecting me to answer this question, you’re out of luck, because I don’t know the ...read more -
Audioengine HDP6 Loudspeaker
|In Issue 272 I left little doubt about how much I enjoyed the flexibility and musicality of Audioengine’s HD6 powered loudspeaker system. For a compact barely a foot tall, this plucky bundle had it all—it ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Speakers Below $20k
|The 2017 event, which was clearly the best attended and most vibrant of the current four-year Chicago run of AXPONAs, will be last in this highly successful series to be held at the Westin O’Hare. ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Loudspeakers $20k and Up
|As was the case at CES in January, I have some good news and some bad news about AXPONA 2017, held the third week of April in Chi-Town. The funny thing is that the good ...read more -
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Air Tight Bonsai AL-05 Mini-Monitor
|If you think mini-monitor means small sound, the Air Tight Bonsai will have you thinking again. Forget mini; the sound here is decidedly, uh, maxi. For starters, the speaker’s wide dispersion and voluptuously full and ...read more -
Audience ClairAudient 1+1 V2+ Loudspeaker
|As enthusiastic as I’ve been about Audience’s tiny ClairAudient 1+1 V2+ speaker, I’m afraid that I’ve done the product a disservice. All my references to it have described it as a “desktop” speaker, and that’s ...read more -
Micromega MySpeaker with MyAmp Inside
|Micromega’s ever-expanding “MyRange” of compact and affordable electronics has in just a few short years grown to encompass the MyDac (TAS’ 2012 Product of the Year), MyAmp, MyGroov (you guessed it, a phonostage), and a ...read more -
Aluminous Audio Announces Newest Version of Gravitas Loudspeaker System
|The following is a press release issued by Aluminous Audio. March 30, 2017 - Aluminous Audio is proud to announce the newest version of the GRAVITAS loudspeaker system. This is the first loudspeaker system in ...read more