I just visited Magico's Hayward, California, factory where I heard the new and upgraded Mk.II version of the company's vaunted Q7 loudspeaker. The Q7 is, in my view, one of the world's greatest speakers—perhaps the ...

To call the Devialet 200 a technologically advanced audio component is like saying Miles Davis played the trumpet. In fact, there’s no single product-category description that can encompass the 200’s myriad functions and capabilities, nor ...

Hi-Fi Centre, of Vancouver, BC, is pleased to announce the opening of a brand-new, 5,000-sq.-ft. audio/video showroom, in the Gastown district. The grand opening event will take place on Friday, February 27, 2015, in the ...

In my editorial in Issue 246 (“The Law of Accelerating Returns”) I suggested that the goal of assembling the most realistic-sounding audio system is best realized by investing in products that are demonstrably more transparent ...

I get more reader letters complaining about the prices of some of the products we review than on any other topic. Six-figure amplifiers are bound to offend many sensibilities. But I’m about to demonstrate how ...

The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show will be remembered as the moment at which the smartphone and tablet became essential components of an audio system. In room after room, music was sourced from servers controlled by ...

To understand Berkeley Audio Design’s ambitious new Alpha DAC Reference, you need to know something about the company behind it. In its six years of existence Berkeley had produced just two products: the $4995 Alpha ...

London, 4th December 7.30pm GMT – Tonight, Bob Stuart, founder of Meridian Audio, launched MQA (Master Quality Authenticated), a revolutionary British technology poised to change the way people enjoy music all over the world. The ...

Rockport Altair Loudspeaker$97,500 Although it’s been nearly four years since I reviewed the Altair, Rockport’s second-from-top model still sticks in my mind as one of the world’s greatest loudspeakers. My fond memory of how this ...

Many audiophiles think of an audio system from the perspective of The Law of Diminishing Returns. That’s the idea that each successive dollar you add to your hi-fi budget realizes progressively less sonic improvement. To ...

Meridian Audio has leveraged its 23-year history of developing active DSP loudspeakers to create state-of-the-art car audio for Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. I recently listened to the Meridian system in Jaguar’s XJ luxury sedan ...

After 40 years of designing loudspeakers, Albert Von Schweikert received a dream commission: Build a custom one-off loudspeaker with no cost constraints. If Albert thought of aspects of the design or construction that would improve ...

The high-end audio industry has a remarkable track record of making fundamentally limited technologies sound good. Most of these technologies were created for mass-market consumption where low price is the overriding design mandate. But because ...

We lost Richard L. Hardesty to cancer on August 19th, 2014 at age 70. Dick’s was a life lived in audio, first as a retailer and then as a writer. Dick was a consummate educator ...

Photography by Jonathan Valin After this year’s Munich show Jonathan Valin and I made the short trip to Zurich to visit Swiss loudspeaker manufacturer Piega, and listen to its ambitious new $195k Master Line Source ...