This press release crossed my desk. I've heard a 7.1-channel Meridian system playing high-res DVD-A (and film soundtracks) and the experience is not to be missed. Meridian and Audio High Partner For Evening of Excellence ...

(Photography: Joel Salcido) The precision, speed, and balance of Meridian’s DSP7200 active loudspeakers are the most compelling argument I’ve heard to dispel the notion that separates are invariably superior to integrated components. While this prejudice ...

Large, full-range, multi-driver loudspeaker systems can be thrilling and a lot of fun, yet in my experience, they frequently suffer from a lack of coherence between at least some of their drivers. My former Infinity ...

At this year’s CES I was introduced to Sonus Faber’s new Liuto which was being demoed in the Sumiko room. Filling the gap between the Domus line and the exclusive Classic line, the Liuto is ...

Even in the best of times emotion plays a major part in five-figure buying decisions; in today’s economy passion ultimately has to rule. If you are a genuine audiophile, you buy because what you buy ...

The Audience ClairAudient Loudspeaker: A 20-Year Dream Realized Robert Harley On a recent visit to Southern California, I stopped in to see Audience, maker of a highly regarded line of AC power-conditioner and signal cables. ...

(Note: Following is the technical "sidebar" for my review of Vienna Acoustics' "The Music" loudspeaker that will appear in the September issue of The Absolute Sound. I also nominated The Music for a 2009 Golden ...

Getting started in the high end means making some tough decisions. And they don’t come any tougher than choosing between a compact and a floorstanding speaker in the $1k range. There was a day when ...

What an extraordinary act of creation from designer Clayton Shaw this speaker is! While this isn’t the first speaker to use digital signal processing for its crossover, the DSP is here used for something new. ...

At first glance it’s easy to mistake Imagine—PSB’s newest midline collection of loudspeakers—for its more costly premium line, Synchrony. I did. After all, both are visually arresting—curvaceous and seamless. And they represent a fashion shift ...

Remember the commercial showing Rosey Grier, the great football player, the very embodiment of human physical power, doing needlepoint? (This was real. He wrote a book on it, Needlepoint for Men.) This image came to ...

A few years ago, I reviewed the HPS-938 from Hyperion Sound Design, a promising young company formed by dedicated audiophiles who, like many of the current luminaries in the business, started out believing they could ...

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Wilson Audio Alexandria X-2 Series 2 loudspeaker—and this is a loudspeaker that is remarkable in many ways—is its sense of musical intimacy. That might seem an odd ...

The more I review speakers, the more cautious I get about calling one a breakthrough. Speaker design has advanced to the point where dramatic qualitative differences are rare, where the personal taste of the audiophile ...

My most lasting memory of the loudspeakers I’ve reviewed is the way each has transformed my listening room in unpredictable, even unimaginable ways. Those with direct, forward personalities have given it the flavor of a ...