Now in its seventh generation, Paradigm’s Monitor Series is one of the benchmarks for good-sounding, affordable speakers that, while perhaps not the last word in any one area, offer tremendous across-the-board performance, musical satisfaction, and ...

Audio occupies an unusually important place in the economy of Denmark. Not only are there major consumer audio brands located there, but Denmark is also the source of a remarkable fraction of the world’s speaker ...

The history of audio is littered with the skeletons of “breakthrough” signal-processing technologies that reportedly improved the listening experience. From the “Hafler Hook-up” of the 1960s to today’s sophisticated DSP-based systems, there’s been no shortage ...

History has been kind to Audion since Erik Andersson and David Chessel started the company in the late 1980s. It survived two decades in an age when the average lifetime of a startup high-end-audio company ...

Here’s the scenario: Small, cozy den with a generous love seat for you and your significant other, who, as it turns out, happens to love movies especially on the newly installed wall-mounted flat panel. And ...

The vast majority of new speakers the size of the PSB Imagine Mini are likely designed for a computer-desktop or a lifestyle A/V setup. PSB has gone one better; it has created a tiny speaker ...

TAS’s 2011 Overall Product of the Year award winners, the $60k Magico Q5 and the near-$100k Rockport Altair, may be the highest-fidelity dynamic loudspeakers that a whole lot of money can currently buy, but that ...

Few products in my experience as a reviewer have offered as much value as the Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC. Although not inexpensive at $4995, the original Alpha DAC (reviewed in Issue 189) was nonetheless competitive ...

Michael Kelly and David Marshall at Aerial Acoustics have come up with a new speaker model that will serve as the basis for more models to come. I have had the pleasure of listening to ...

Rotel calls the RCX-1500 CD receiver the “most versatile component we’ve ever offered,” and I don’t doubt the claim. The RCX-1500 is a veritable multi-tasking, digital Grand Central Station. All comers welcome. Whether you want ...

I’d be a rich man if I had a nickel for every time an accessories manufacturer told me that his product would make a “dramatic” or “jaw-dropping” improvement in my system. Adding accessories usually renders ...

Most power amplifiers, and the amplifier sections within integrated amplifiers, are strikingly similar in operation. These so-called “Class A/B, push-pull” amplifiers have been around for decades and are the staple technology of nearly every amplifier ...

Most audiophiles don’t know this, but in 1975 Pioneer Electronics created a kind of “skunk works” to develop highly advanced, cutting-edge loudspeaker technologies for the professional audio market. This division, called Technical Audio Devices (TAD), ...

Back in Issue 178, Robert Harley wrote about B&W’s first venture into the brave new world of iPod-based music systems. As Robert rightly pointed out, “Most amplified speaker systems for the iPod are cheap plastic ...

Part One was published in the last issue (212), and I should have labeled it a sneak preview since the Maggies had arrived in Sea Cliff just after their showing in Las Vegas, and just ...