Many years ago, I purchased a Creek integrated amplifier as a birthday present for my wife to use as the centerpiece in an affordable, easy-to-use, yet engaging second system for our house. Although she’d complained ...

A bit of youthful dabbling with grass aside, I’ve never much been into drugs and have no idea what narcotic withdrawal feels like. But I experienced what I imagine it might be like last year, ...

the Krel LAT-1000 is Dan D’Agostino’s effort to bring the same kind of no-holds barred approach to speaker design that he has brought to his Evolution Series electronics. He led the design team and voiced ...

Have you ever had a reference component in your system for years and sold it because you felt that something else just had to be better? Perhaps my biggest audio regret is selling my Crosby-modified ...

Of all the gear I’ve had the good fortune to own over the course of the past two-and-ahalf decades, the Mark Levinson Nº 31 Reference CD transport, Nº 35 digital-toanalog converter and Nº 38S preamplifier ...

By offering qualities we typically associate with audiophile speakers as well as those from the pro-monitor world, Pioneer’s EX Series bridges the divide between two distinct listening cultures. It combines a recordingstudio ethic, rigorous construction ...

Wireworld has taken a fresh look at the power cord, and in so doing has produced a line that runs counter to conventional wisdom. The five models in the 52 Series bear little physical relation ...

Before you even hear a sound, you know this one is something different. Symmetric driver array speakers are common enough, and the cabinet, though a little unusual in shape and visual texture, is basically still ...

The Plinius SB-301 has been in my system only a week, but even in that short time span this 310Wpc New Zealander has reignited music in ways that are nothing short of enthralling. The largest ...

Polk Audio ’s new I-Sonic brings a wide range of music sources to a desktop or bedrom audio System —and does so with surprising sound quality. The curvaceous, nine-pound I-Sonic might look like a “table ...

As most of you alread y know , when analog records are mastered , the cutter head that inscribes the signal in the lacquer blank travels in a straight line from the outer edge toward ...

Kharma ’s Mini Exquisite is a perfectl y named loudspeaker . More than any other (super) model I know of, it offers a staggeringly seductive blend of fine detail and, yes, exquisite beauty. It will ...

The Primare (pronounced “prime air”) units, from Sweden, are handsome, easy to set up and run, and high in performance. In a year that dealt me good moderately priced high-end audio electronics to review, this ...

A couple of reasons why most loudspeakers don’t sound like live music are that they are dynamically compressed and that they fail to accurately replicate hard transients. Ultimately, they just don’t have enough dynamic headroom ...

Lacking the literary prowess of HP, I’m at a bit of a loss to explain the cult-like following the output-transformerless (OTL) amp has garnered over the years. I suppose it could be compared to a ...