I finally made the trip across the Atlantic to see the Munich high-end show for myself, and what a show it is. This annual event has gradually increased in importance over the years to the ...

Munich High End is not only the biggest high-end-audio show in the world; it is also the oddest. Where else in the world would you be greeted at the door by three guys in lederhosen, ...

Now in its seventh generation, Paradigm’s Monitor Series is one of the benchmarks for good-sounding, affordable speakers that, while perhaps not the last word in any one area, offer tremendous across-the-board performance, musical satisfaction, and ...

Let me start with what you won’t get with Maggie’s new flagship ribbon/quasi-ribbon dipole three-way, the $14k 20.7s. First, you won’t get all of the dynamic range that you get with well-designed cone speakers. Indeed, ...

Please check out Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4. I observed a different side of the YG Anat 3 Signature ($119k) at Axpona. In rotation with the YG entry level Carmel, the Anat was ...

Audio occupies an unusually important place in the economy of Denmark. Not only are there major consumer audio brands located there, but Denmark is also the source of a remarkable fraction of the world’s speaker ...

TAS’s 2011 Overall Product of the Year award winners, the $60k Magico Q5 and the near-$100k Rockport Altair, may be the highest-fidelity dynamic loudspeakers that a whole lot of money can currently buy, but that ...

By the third day I could walk into a room and, without asking a single question, know if the speakers on view were in my price category. Not because of their sound, but because of ...

Michael Kelly and David Marshall at Aerial Acoustics have come up with a new speaker model that will serve as the basis for more models to come. I have had the pleasure of listening to ...

Wilson Audio invited me to Provo, Utah just a few days before Christmas for an early look and listen to its new top-of-the-line Alexandria XLF loudspeaker. TAS Contributing Writer Jacob Heilbrunn, who owns Wilson's X-2 ...

Part One was published in the last issue (212), and I should have labeled it a sneak preview since the Maggies had arrived in Sea Cliff just after their showing in Las Vegas, and just ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. As a writer familiar with covering trader events, it’s easy to forget the impact a regional consumer show like RMAF can have. Leaving ...

Even after several decades of reviewing, I am still struck by the fact so many different approaches to speaker design can produce outstanding sound quality. The choice between dynamic, ribbon, and electrostatic speakers is as ...

As the co-inventor of CD and SACD, Sony stands astride the audio world like a colossus. Thus it is a bit surprising that Sony’s presence in the upper echelons of speaker design has been rather ...

Alive and Kicking: Report from T.H.E. Show Newport Beach Robert Harley Of the 70 or so hi-fi shows I’ve attended around the world, I’d have to say that T.H.E. Show held at the Newport Beach ...