Latecomers to specialty audio may be excused for not knowing that the Klipschorn was integral to the development of hi-fi in the 1940s and 1950s and represented a leap forward in home music playback in ...

When I turned in my review of the smaller Hegel H100 integrated amp some time ago, I mentioned to Editor-in-Chief Robert Harley how much I also liked the H200. When Robert asked if I would ...

The Vincent Audio PHO-8 is a well finished and appointed dual-chassis phono preamp that belies its entry-level price. Sporting attractive 10mm-thick faceplates, it bears a striking resemblance to Vincent Audio’s Premium Series components. The phono ...

The Marten Getz loudspeaker is a three-way dynamic-driver floorstander. Its debut marks the completion of the four-model Heritage Series from the company that hails from the land of ABBA, Volvo, and Ingrid Bergman. Marten, known ...

It’s no secret to followers of this hobby that solid-state electronics and Red Book CD players have recently advanced to previously unheard—and for some, perhaps, unimagined—levels of musical performance. Indeed, recent articles in these very ...

Since I plan to compare the MBL 6010 D linestage preamplifier—the big brother to the 5011 that Wayne just extolled—with the best tube preamplifier I’ve heard, the Audio Research Corporation Reference 3 (reviewed in TAS ...

The very first thing HP told me when I started writing for this magazine ten years ago was never to paint myself in a corner with a rave. “Always leave room for the next great ...

In Issue 189 I reviewed the Cable Research Lab Silver speaker cables and interconnects. A relatively new company at the time, CRL took its inspiration from the work of Paul Weitzel and Winston Ma over ...

In this age of uncertainty, it’s reassuring to know that certain things remain as stable as the sunrise. And, no, I’m not talking about the Republicans’ conservative agenda, wimpy Democrats, Brett Favre’s endless melodramas, or ...

It isn’t often that a component comes along that genuinely electrifies a seasoned reviewer, but thanks to Nola’s new Micro Grand Reference, now, for the first time in a long, long while, it has. And ...

Here is a riddle: What has sixteen separate, current-bearing, actively shielded “air strings” of copper-silver alloy, pure silver, pure gold, or (if you choose) a combination of gold and silver, twenty separate LEMO connectors and ...

In my book, a new product introduction from the creative mind of David Berning is an event, a happening if you will. His designs are far from being yet another twist on a 1950s circuit, ...

I’ve long admired the approach Simaudio takes toward building integrated amplifiers. Rather than treat the integrated amplifier as a budget-oriented product unworthy of its best technology, the Canadian firm has instead strived to create truly ...

Time was that a pair of electrostatics speakers was almost the shibboleth of the high end. When TAS began, of course, there were fine box speakers, the Spendors, the IMFs, and the Harbeths (rare in ...

Bower & Wilkins introduced the Matrix 801 speaker in 1979 followed by a line of speakers based on the 801 in 1986. B&W has continued to update the 800 range every few years ever since. ...