Bill Frisell makes his Blue Note label debut as a leader not by emphasizing his guitar but rather by celebrating the human voice. He doesn’t do any of the singing; he puts longtime collaborator Petra ...

European Audio Team (E.A.T.) has taken the ECC83 dual triode tube and merged it with solid-state electronics to create the E-Glo S phonostage. When coupled with the LPS external linear power supply, the E-Glo S ...

The audiophile creed has its sacred objects and among the holiest is the direct-to-disc LP. Like splinters from the True Cross, there are only a finite number and they can possess a mystical energy connecting ...

The following is a press release issued by High End By Oz, United Home Audio, and Vitus Audio. January 2, 2019 - High End By Oz LLC is pleased to announce United Home Audio as ...

I first became aware of HiFiMan roughly eleven years ago, when I sought to review one of the firm’s earliest planar-magnetic headphones. However, in the course of reaching out I learned that, even earlier on, ...

The following is a press release issued by The Florida Audio Expo. Tampa, Florida | December 2019—Music lovers rejoice! The Florida Audio Expo is happening Friday–Sunday, February 7–9, 2020, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton ...

When an audio journalist asked loudspeaker designer Richard Vandersteen if his company would make an in-wall speaker, Richard replied, “I’ll make an in-wall speaker when Steinway makes an in-wall piano.” That brilliant retort perfectly sums ...

Chord Qutest $1895 The Chord Qutest integrates the entire frequency spectrum in a holistic, organic way that just sounds right—not too soft or hard, detailed without being harsh, and relaxed without being flaccid. While reviewer ...

The striking-looking Selekt DSM represents the most current and comprehensive execution of Linn’s 12-plus-year-old family of digital streaming sources, which now includes four platforms, Majik (starting at $2999), Selekt (starting at $5200), Akurate (starting at ...

Robbie Robertson has always taken a distinctly cinematic approach to his multicultural melting-pot style of North Americana songwriting, a narrative attribute well in place due to the indigenous Canadian’s weighty workload with The Band long ...

If you do an Internet search for Lumin, “Lumin Music” will pop up. Its website headline reads, “The Audiophile Network Player Family,” which pretty much sums up what Lumin does—all Lumin’s product offerings are network-aware ...

Time is passing much too rapidly. In my case, it seems as if it was just yesterday that I received a review sample of Warwick Acoustics’ first audiophile-oriented personal audio product, the $4995 Sonoma Model ...

Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2 $249 It’s little; it’s vinyl clad; it’s dirt cheap; and it sounds terrific. The B5 compact represents the first effort in what should be a long and fruitful collaboration between Elac ...

If, by any chance, audio enthusiasts required further evidence of the generational shift that has fundamentally transformed the integrated amplifier segment, they need look no further than the Gold Note IS-1000. Whereas, once upon a ...

When I bought the Continuum Caliburn turntable over a decade back, it never occurred to me that I would switch out its Cobra tonearm for a different one. But several years ago, I started hearing ...