Usually I begin my report with pithy remarks about the show, but this year so many new digital products deserve inclusion in my report that I’ll cut right to the chase. Disc Players The 2013 ...

Insomniacs must populate NuForce’s R&D department. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for NuForce’s rapidly expanding stable of new products. I reviewed its excellent DAC-100 in Issue 228, and now NuForce has ...

It is perhaps no coincidence that both our choices for Integrated Amplifier of The Year feature a direct-digital topology in which digital audio data at the amplifier’s input directly drive the output transistors. This technique ...

Another year, another Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, and another wave of new digital audio gear. To experience all the new products required more walking and talking, and less listening, than I would have liked. I ...

Best Sound (cost no object) – Once again, the VTL/Wilson/DCS/Transparent Audio Room on the second floor (2030) garners my vote for best sound at the show. It was my first time hearing the Wilson Alexia ...

Recently I downloaded and purchased an APP called “AudioTest.” For $4.99 you get a complete test tone generator for your Mac (sorry no PC yet). It can make sine, triangle, sawtooth, square, pulse, smooth sawtooth, ...

A press release from Monster came across my computer screen a couple of days back. It heralded an appearance by “World renowned designer/stylist Phillip Bloch” at Monster’s “Style360 Pavilion” during NYC’s Fashion Week. While this ...

A few days ago I purchased an App for my iPod Touch called SpeakerAngle that was guaranteed to make setting up speakers a more accurate and less of a hit-or-miss affair. Released under the auspices ...

If I had a dollar for every time a young person said to me, “I need an inexpensive speaker that doesn’t suck,” I’d have enough money to buy all my under-20-year-old nieces and nephews Paradigm ...