Articles
--
GoldenEar Technology Triton One.R Loudspeaker
|When Sandy Gross, the president of GoldenEar Technology, visited me in 2015 to help set up his Triton Five loudspeakers, he later confessed to me in an email that it had been a somewhat hair-raising ...read more -
-
New Spendor D7.2 Loudspeakers Now Shipping
|The following is a press release issued by Bluebird Music and Spendor. October 29, 2019 | Buffalo, NY - Bluebird Music today announced immediate availability of the new Spendor D Line Models, D7.2 and D9.2 ...read more -
dCS Legends Award Program Unveiled Honoring Grammy Winning Engineers
|Pictured above, left to right: Elliot Scheiner, Chuck Ainlay, Bob Ludwig, John Newton, Leslie Ann Jones, Frank Filipetti, Mark Wilder, George Massenburg. Recipients not pictured: Ed Cherney, Tony Faulkner, Al Schmitt. This information is taken ...read more -
Ayon Audio CD-10 Signature CD/SACD Player
|Established in 1991, Ayon Audio quickly outgrew its domestic Austrian market to reach a global audience with a line of tube amplifiers. Its first CD player arrived in 2006, and with Gerhard Hirt as CEO, ...read more -
World First Demo of Hi-Res Audio Meets HD Video in Japan
|This announcement is based on press release information received. London / Tokyo | 28 October 2019 – WOWOW, Japan’s leading premium pay TV broadcaster, is harnessing MQA’s award-winning audio technology to showcase HD video playback ...read more -
2019 Golden Ear Awards: Andrew Quint
|T+A Elektroakustik DAC 8 DSD Digital-to-Analog Converter $4450 Many digital audio experts maintain that it’s just not possible to optimize decoding of both PCM and DSD data streams with a one-lane architecture, even though there ...read more -
-
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Texas Flood
|From the moment your stylus saddles into the opening grooves of the Chuck Berry-tinged “Love Struck Baby,” to the final strains of the Hendrix-dipped slow blues “Lenny,” prepare to be electrified by MoFi’s latest release ...read more -
2019 Golden Ear Awards: Julie Mullins
|PS Audio Sprout100 Integrated Amplifier $599 Even when I’m not doing critical listening, I still find myself returning frequently and fondly to the super-sounding and retro-stylish Sprout100 integrated amp, a new and improved version of ...read more -
2019 Golden Ear Awards: Robert E. Greene
|Devialet Expert Pro 220 Integrated Amplifier with the SAM (Speaker Active Matching) System $9990 The Expert Pro 220 is one of the best amplifiers ever. Its technical performance is at the very highest level, with ...read more -
Melco Launces New S100 Data Switch
|The following is a press relase issued by Melco. October 24, 2019 | Surrey, UK - Melco has launched an audiophile-technology extreme-performance data switch, the S100, which offers improved sound quality for any network audio ...read more -
Yamaha Announces New 5000 Series
|The following is a press release issued by Yamaha. Buena Park, California | October 23, 2019 - Yamaha is making the biggest statement in the Hi-Fi market since it coined the term “Hi-Fi” 65 years ...read more -
-
Genesis Advanced Technologies Event at Distinctive Stereo
|I recently had the privilege of attending a unique event hosted by Larry Borden of Distinctive Stereo in River Vale, NJ, to announce and demonstrate his new line of loudspeakers from Genesis Advanced Technologies. In ...read more -
Ortofon MC Century Phono Cartridge
|In an early February editorial entitled “Vinyl Revival Marks the Tone of Our Times,” the Financial Times observed that “audiophiles claim analogue vinyl sounds better than digital downloads or CDs.” Indeed they do. One of ...read more -
International Phonograph, Inc.
|One of the dilemmas for those of us with tricked-out reel-to-reel tape decks, like my UHA-Phase 12 from United Home Audio, is finding outstanding pre-recorded tapes at reasonable prices. One great source is International Phonograph, ...read more -
50 Greatest Bargains in High-End Audio - 2019
|Cables, Power Products, and Accessories AudioQuest conductive fiber record brush, $22.95 Caig Deoxit contact cleaner, $32.95 Shunyata Research Venom 14 AC power cord, $95 Synergistic Research Foundation Series, $499/$599 Entry Level Grado Prestige Black2 phono ...read more