The world of music has suffered a great loss: the great cellist and distinguished teacher Janos Starker died on April 28, 2013. Starker’s public career was at the highest level of distinction. Like most great ...

The Music Streamer HD is HRT’s top of the line USB DAC. You might assume this is the go-to streamer to use when you’ve tired of HRT’s microStreamer? Not really. Do not, I repeat do ...

There can be a good deal of snobbery in audiophile circles, not only when it comes to audio equipment but also music. Now in some ways this disposition is understandable. Snobbery can sometimes be hard ...

1. Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Further Out. (Issue 209) 2. Andrew Hill: Point of Departure. (Issue 213) 3. Illinois Jacquet: Swing’s The Thing. (Issue 213) 4. Ben Webster: The Soul of Ben Webster. (Issue 216) ...

1. Robbie Robertson: How to Become Clairvoyant. (Issue 216) 2. Dion: Tank Full of Blues. (Issue 223) 3. Dr. John: Locked Down. (Issue 224) 4. Joe Walsh: Analog Man. (Issue 226) 5. Beach Boys: That’s ...

When I reviewed the Corona line of electronics in conjunction with the mbl 120 compact Radialstrahler in Issue 228, I concluded that of the three Corona components that made up the system, seeing the C31 ...

The world of digital streaming is one that I admittedly am not as comfortable with as other formats. I still cling to my analog roots and treasure the ritual and spirit of vinyl LP playback–with ...

Cleaning LPs, which I have done for many years, is one of the most vexing chores that any audiophile can encounter. I’ve spent many hours hunched over LP cleaning machines, wearing ear plugs, disbursing fluids, ...

First, and this is just preliminary–In spite of the fact that I’ve only listened a short while to the new and very chic Meridian Explorer pocket-sized USB/DAC, I haven’t been anything less than impressed. Very ...

February 13, 2013. - Monday, England's digital specialist Meridian introduced a device meant to compete directly with Audioquest's wildly successful Dragonfly. Like that watershed product, Meridian's product, dubbed The Explorer, is an affordable USB DAC ...

Audio reviewing tends to be a mostly solitary endeavor. But that’s not to say reviewers are anti-social. However, as much as TAS staffers like me would like to pay a colleague a visit to check ...

Like almost everybody else who grew up in the sixties, I can honestly say that rock ’n’ roll changed my life. In particular, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band changed my life. That girl doll ...

The new version of Alan Shaw’s Harbeth Monitor 30.1, which I am reviewing now, is the best compact two-way speaker system I have ever heard, regardless of design type, cost, or complexity. It’s an updated ...

A reader letter suggested that the photography of the Magico Q7 in the January issue of The Absolute Sound was too stylized and didn’t convey what the speaker actually looked like, particularly in a real ...

The expression “entry level” covers a vast swath of price points in the high end. For Vitus Audio, a premium maker of electronics from Denmark its Reference Series, which includes the RI-100 is at $13k, ...