I don’t know if Nicolaus Copernicus was eating oxtail soup, looking at an apple falling from a tree, or cleaning his astrolabe when he thought up his theory of the revolution of celestial spheres, set ...

Like fine wine, the work of many of the best designers in the audio arts appears to improve as they age and are able to bring to bear their wealth of experience, aided by years ...

A wonderful recent documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, focuses on 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono, whose restaurant is located in Tokyo’s Ginza-district subway station. Despite the fact that his 10-seat sushi bar is booked ...

I have been following the evolution of Anthony Gallo’s loudspeakers for quite a while and over time have grown accustomed to, and even fond of, their futuristic styling. But Gallo speakers, as I have pointed ...

Nothing conveys the art and alchemy of high-end audio better, in my view, than the execution of a fine, two-way, compact loudspeaker. More than any pull-out-the-stops floorstander, the stand-mounted two-way embodies one of audio’s most ...

It was only a matter of time before NAD brought the groundbreaking technology and architecture of its M2 Direct Digital Amplifier to a lower-priced product. The $6000 M2, which I reviewed in Issue 198, is ...

As a certain scruffy young bard once sang, “The times they are-a changin’.” Although many aspects of our hobby remain constant, especially the continuing health of analog and two-channel sound, there’s no doubt that digitalaudio ...

I was raised on radio, and I still enjoy its unpredictable mix of music, features, and news. In fact, there was a time when no self-respecting audio system was considered fully dressed without a good ...

I’ve been a fan of DISH Network for many years and have come to expect more features and better performance from every new generation of DVR, but nothing prepared me for the Hopper. This new ...

I’m fortunate to be able to choose from the roughly 700 high-end products introduced annually approximately ten or twelve components to review myself. These are the components I’m going to live with for many months, ...

I’m a small speaker guy. It comes naturally. My listening rooms have always been modest in size, and well suited to two-way compact speakers. Personally I like the quasi-nearfield experience which allows me to hear ...

What do you get when you combine an integrated amplifier, premium DACs, and a cutting-edge wireless network? Micromega calls it the AS-400. Based on the Micromega IA-400, a 200Wpc (400Wpc into 4 ohms) Class D ...

It’s embarrassing to admit but I still have a hangover from the DOS era. For those drawing a historical blank, this was the monochromatic, digital Dark Age that occurred between the preservation of dinosaur DNA ...

My two GenNext sons like their music portable—on iPods played back through earbuds, headphones, or via RatShack hookup to thrift store electronics and scrounged speakers. In this, they’re typical of their twenty-something generation. It’s even ...

I had the pleasure of reviewing the B&W 805 Diamond for Issue 210 and, as a fan of good stand-mounted speakers, was pleased to receive the review assignment for the less expensive Prestige Monitor 1—PM1 ...