An old anecdote says that things in life occur in threes. In audio, at least in recent days it’s been happening in twos. First the TAD CR1 loudspeaker a three-way stand mount with the triumphant ...

Robert Harley Visits Transparent Audio—and Discovers a $210 “Miracle” Upgrade Robert Harley I recently made the trek to Maine to visit the venerable high-end cable manufacturer Transparent Audio. Transparent has long been a major player ...

The World’s Most Expensive Loudspeakers, Part 2 Robert Harley Continuing our overview of the world’s most expensive loudspeakers, we pick up with the ninth most expensive speaker, the $300,000 Wisdom Audio Infinite Wisdom (Wisdom also ...

At this year’s RMAF I blogged about the first US appearance of Audio Research’s DSi200, a high-power solid-state integrated amp equipped with remote control, three single-ended inputs and a pair of balanced inputs. To recap: ...

This most recent CES was notable for the large number of new-product introductions. The economy in late 2008 and most of 2009 caused manufacturers to delay introducing new products. But the overall sense of the ...

I guess it shouldn't have come as a surprise, but I'd gotten so used to listening to superb solid-state amps and preamps from the likes of Soulution, BAlabo, and Technical Brain that I kinda forgot ...

It may seem odd to many of you that at this particular moment in the high end when media servers and other hard-drive/solid state drive components are hogging most of the attention that I should ...

Editor's Note: The Absolute Sound recently published its 2010 Editors' Choice Award Winners. Following are the selections in the loudspeakers from $2,000 to $3,000 category. Many have links to the full reviews. Enjoy! JH B&W ...

The World’s Most Expensive Loudspeakers Robert Harley There’s been much debate in the pages of The Absolute Sound lately about the high-cost of certain audio components. For some reason, Wilson Audio seems to be a ...

The Magneplanar 1.7—the first new loudspeaker from Magnepan in better than a decade—was the most eagerly anticipated introduction at this year’s CES. Happily, its debut turned out to be a smashing success. Even more happily, ...

There were several things that made me decide to try my hand at audio journalism in the fall of 1972. I hadn’t intended to make a career out of it—in a sense, it was an ...

Having heard versions of the TAD Compact Reference (TAD stands for Technical Audio Devices) for a couple years now I wasn’t believing my eyes a couple weeks ago when this speaker finally appeared on my ...

News doesn't get much better than this! Elusive Disc, Inc recently announced its appointment as the exclusive distributor of the JVC XRCD product line for North America. They assumed operations in November of 2006. With ...

I suppose I’m a lot like a great many vinyl fanciers. I don’t own an archival collection but it’s a good assortment with a mix of personal faves and nostalgia, and occasional killer super-discs. While ...

This little sweetheart measures a mere 10 inches and nearly the same deep but it’s another beauty from a company that takes the prosaic wood enclosure and with a couple curves and bevels and flourishes ...