The Absolute Sound will be selling the sought-after Illustrated History of High-End Audio, Volume One: Loudspeakers at a Show Special price during the 2014 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. We have brought a very limited number ...

REL R-528SE Sub-Bass System$2799 REL’s R-528SE offers truly breathtaking bass reach, low distortion, and high resolution in a compact package that is standard setting at its price and several multiples beyond. In truth, it’s doubtful ...

Bensenville, IL - September 9, 2014: Danish loudspeaker specialist Dynaudio will present the North American premier of the second generation of the company’s Xeo wireless loudspeaker series at the 2014 CEDIA Expo in Denver, Colorado. ...

Welcome to Sunday Morning Hi Fi #1, the first installment of a weekly blog and a place to discuss high-end audio, discover new music, get sneak peaks of new products, make breakfast, and uncover existential ...

August 28, 2014 - The new Bowers & Wilkins CM Series dramatically improves on the audiophile-quality performance and luxurious design for which the series is renowned. Combining the latest Bowers & Wilkins technologies – including ...

It is no secret that I’m not a fan of subwoofers. In my experience they take away more in transparency and coherence than they pay back in low-end extension and power-handling, especially when they are ...

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 ...

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 ...

After last year’s exciting debut, I think everyone at TAS was expecting AXPONA Chicago 2014 to be a huge success—and it may well have been financially. (Several record dealers told me that they had never ...

Join Robert Harley in his listening room for a personal tour inside The Absolute Sound's Illustrated History of High-End Audio, Volume One: Loudspeakers. This informative and entertaining video provides an inside look at this landmark ...

In mid-February I escaped the miserably cold weather in Southern Ohio and flew to the relative balminess of Germany and Denmark to visit Avantgarde Acoustics in Bensheim outside of Frankfurt, and Raidho Acoustics in Pandrup ...

February 10, 2014 - The new Bowers & Wilkins 600 Series dramatically improves on the existing range’s legendary combination of outstanding value and exemplary audio performance. The new 600 Series brings high-end sound quality within ...

Because I know many of you are used to a more comprehensive show report than our new format allows for—and many manufacturers quite rightly expect to be mentioned, favorably or not, when a reviewer spends ...