If you own a high-end loudspeaker, there's a good chance that some of the drivers were made by the Danish firm ScanSpeak. The company was known for years as building the creme de la creme ...

With the reported demise of Telarc Records (see HP’s recent blog), the Tower Records bankruptcy, and classical music sales down some 30% in the past year, things were beginning to look pretty bleak for the ...

A couple of days ago I drove out to a modest industrial park in Camarillo, California where I was to meet with Lorr Kramer of Smyth Research. The purpose was to receive a full-on, no-holds-barred ...

Sneak Preview of Upcoming TAS Features and Reviews Robert Harley Although it’s mid-April (and snowing in New Mexico as I write this!), I have on the drawing board issue plans for The Absolute Sound through ...

While Telarc Records, as we knew it, did not officially cease to exist on the last day of March, it will only be a shell of its former self. As one of its principals put ...

Take a look at these two pictures: Given the small difference in the angle from which they were taken and the larger one in the time of day they were taken at (the first was ...

The $2000 CD Made from Glass Robert Harley Japanese CD manufacturer Memory-Tech is offering to replicate CDs made from glass rather than the conventional polycarbonate. The rationale? Glass CDs sound better. Memory-Tech calls the discs ...

Editor's Note: TAS' esteemed founder, HP, brought this wonderful speech given by Karl Paulnack, the Director of the Music Division at The Boston Conversatory, to my attention. We thought it would be of interest to ...

I unpacked the triple-boxed Vincent Audio V-60 integrated amplifier the other day and what a beauty she is. As the images show, this all-tube 60Wpc amp has a look that is equal parts homage to ...

For the last six months I’ve been listening to the best solid-state amplifiers I’ve yet heard in my home: the Soulution 710 stereo and 700 monoblock. This gear (coupled with Soulution’s superb 720 full-function preamp ...

I caught my first glimpse of the all-new Amerigo from Sonics by Joachim Gerhard at last years Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and was able to have a further listen at CES. I liked what I ...

Do Hard-Disk Drives Sound Better than CDs? Robert Harley A reader's post of an interesting and relevant question regarding the sound quality of hard-disk-based music servers versus CD (http://www.avguide.com/forums/cd-player-vs-computerserver-system) prompted me to post my experience ...

A lot of exotic turntables were shown at CES 2009. However, there were several new 'tables of note that won't break the bank and promise to offer real sonic value. Following are the most significant ...

Editor's Note: Following is an excerpt from Dick Olsher's CES 2009 Report on new tube gear. Read the full CES report in the current issue of TAS (http://www.avguide.com/theabsolutesound/the-absolute-sound-aprilmay-09) Ripples of the global recession were clearly ...

Just recently a reader with the screen name "blackfly" posted this cogent comment to the thread on the $89k Magico M5 loudspeaker: Personally, I very much like the M5, and would love to own a ...