Robert Harley on Upper-End Electronics The mood at this year’s Audio Fest was markedly more upbeat and optimistic than that of a year ago, and particularly that of two years ago. The show saw a ...

TAS Founder Harry Pearson was so inspired by The 12 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time that he wrote an extended, in-depth look back on some of the most significant loudspeaker designs. HP, who lived ...

The audiophile vernacular can be frustratingly limited. Although it’s useful and even necessary—especially from this side of the keyboard—as a means to describe the sound of components as we hear them, as it is with ...

Many people equate the size of a loudspeaker with a commitment to high-end values. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of us live in a world of limits. We don’t have a Gulfstream ...

Editor's Note: Following is a press release we received on Definitive Technology's new Mythos XTR-50. Given Definitive Technology's track record, this is a new product introduction The Perfect Vision will definitely follow. BALTIMORE – March ...

Editor's Note: The Absolute Sound recently published its 2010 Editors' Choice Award Winners. Following are the selections in the loudspeakers from $2,000 to $3,000 category. Many have links to the full reviews. Enjoy! JH B&W ...

At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Jonathan Valin, Neil Gader, and I independently thought that one of the show’s most pleasant surprises was a stand-mount two-way from a then-unknown (to us) company called Volent. Made ...

Having heard versions of the TAD Compact Reference (TAD stands for Technical Audio Devices) for a couple years now I wasn’t believing my eyes a couple weeks ago when this speaker finally appeared on my ...

This little sweetheart measures a mere 10 inches and nearly the same deep but it’s another beauty from a company that takes the prosaic wood enclosure and with a couple curves and bevels and flourishes ...

So. After all the hype and hoopla, I guess you're wondering how Magico's new aluminum-bodied Q5 fared at this year's annual farrago in Vegas. Speaking strictly for myself, I'd have to say the answer to ...

Professional Monitor Company or PMC is the U.K.-based loudspeaker firm that has been internationally heralded for the big active systems it designs for the pro market—systems for film- and sound-recording studios as well as broadcast ...

We begin our journey circa 1957, the dawn of the stereo age, with the introduction of the first full-range electrostatic loudspeaker (later known as the ESL-57) by Quad Electroacoustics. Although the principles of electrostatic transducers ...

In the large speaker ranks the name Nola needs little introduction. Open baffle designs like its Baby Grand always attract a great deal of interest. Music is reproduced on such a transparent and impactful scale ...

Within a few minutes of firing up Harbeth’s HLP-3ES2 mini-monitor, I smiled and thought, “I know this sound. It’s every bit as good as I remember.” For several years in the nineties, I used a ...

The smallest entry in PMC’s eight model i Series, the two-way DB1i is also affectionately known as the “dinky box”. I’ve heard a great many petite speakers over the years from the original Proac Tablettes, ...