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 ...

As you know from previous reports, my swan-like neck of the high-end woods is usually crowded with exotic numbers from manufacturers eager to show off their best and most expensive goodies. But with the ascendance ...

“Paul, you need a kick-ass speaker,” an audiophile friend of mine told me a while ago. This fellow isn’t a headbanger, rather a serious listener and a producer of many recordings of classical music distinguished ...

One of the most important services a high-performance audio dealer can offer its customers and prospects is not only demonstrating the sonic differences between components, but also educating them along the way. During a recent ...

This year the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest celebrated its tenth anniversary, which is hard to believe since it seems like only yesterday that the then-daring experiment of sponsoring a trade show in the shadow of ...

September 3, 2013 - Magico LLC, the leader in high-performance loudspeaker design and manufacture, is proud to announce their first subwoofers - the QSub-18 and the QSub-15. Built around the renowned Q platform, the QSubs ...

Good old-fashioned American chauvinism notwithstanding, Munich is by consensus the world’s most important high-end audio show, replacing CES as the place to do business—that is, if doing business in Europe and the Far East are ...

(Springfield, IL) April 16, 2013 - Legacy Audio introduces Goliath XD, our deepest performing subwoofer yet, featuring two 15” ultra-bass drivers, two 15” passive radiators, 1000 Watts of internal amplification, and 24-bit DSP. Goliath XD’s ...

March 28, 2012 – The Absolute Sound Guide to High-Performance Loudspeakers 2013 has been released for download via theabsolutesound.com. The Absolute Sound 2013 Guide to Loudspeakers features some of the best loudspeaker coverage from TAS ...

New York, NY, March 20, 2013 – A dozen renowned experts will share their high performance audio expertise in clinics, seminars and panel discussions at the New York Audio Show, April 12 – 14, 2013 ...

February 25, 2012 - The R-528SE by REL Acoustics Ltd. is a “Special Edition” version of the current R-528 and was conceived to provide the user with reference-level sub-bass performance, but in a much smaller ...