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 ...

Did your interest in the high end emerge from the music side or the electronics side? It was a love of music that first caused me to become interested in the quality of sound reproduction ...

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 ...

June 10, 2014 - Overture Ultimate Home Electronics in Wilmington, Delaware, will present an afternoon of music and audio with special guests Robert Harley and Alon Wolf. Robert will present TAS’s landmark new book The ...

Audio shows can sometimes feel like a round up of the usual suspects. But during T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2014 there was an abundance of interesting and sometimes wonderful new models, many of which were ...

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, ...

Pickering, Ontario May 26, 2014 -– PSB Speakers, long renowned for affordable excellence in loudspeaker design, introduces four new models to their Imagine Series that resets the price-to-performance ratio. Imagine X is comprised of four ...

If there was any doubt that Munich is world’s most important audio event, the 2014 show held May 16-19 will put any uncertainty to rest. The MOC convention center was packed with 493 exhibitors (up ...

Forget Rocky Mountain, AXPONA Chicago, New York, and Newport Beach, Montréal, Hong Kong, Tokyo, CES. With over 450 exhibitors displaying 900 different brands—all of them as high-end as hi-fi gets (and many not to be ...

Life is full of surprises. Even so, it came as a bit of a shock to chance upon two Saudi Arabians with high-end-audio ambitions at MOC 2013. Beyond sand, oil, and camels, very few of ...

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 ...

Anthony Gallo has always been an iconoclastic loudspeaker designer, and thus his speakers neither look nor sound like the majority of their competitors. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Gallo’s otherworldly but now-discontinued flagship ...

If you were one of the more than 3,500 attendees at this year’s AXPONA 2014, we hope that you had a great show. We hope you had an opportunity to stop by The Absolute Sound’s ...

In an effort to dig a little deeper into the world of loudspeakers and electronics under $15,000 at AXPONA 2014, I wanted to follow up my standard-length report with a second report that shed a ...