DOWNLOAD NOW The Absolute Sound/Hi-Fi+ Guide to Integrated Amplifiers is a comprehensive online buyer’s guide that helps audiophiles and music lovers choose among the latest high-performance integrated amplifiers, from modestly priced to cost-no-object models. It ...

With a name like Palo Santos Presentation, it’s hard to imagine anything less than a high-achieving audio component. This is Sumiko Audio’s latest flagship cartridge, and it is indeed an achievement. A low-output moving coil ...

TAS Founder Harry Pearson was so inspired by The 12 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time that he wrote an extended, in-depth look back on some of the most significant loudspeaker designs. HP, who lived ...

Given that Oracle Audio Technology has been in business for thirty years it may seem odd that, before this review, I’ve never had one of its turntables in my stereo system. Haven’t had a Linn ...

Understated elegance. Quality over quantity. Substance over style. If the underlying sentiments expressed in those phrases appeals to you, an integrated amplifier could be the solution to a straightforward yet beautiful system. The prospect of ...

What is an Extended Resolution Compact Disc (XRCD), and how is it different from a conventional CD? First, XRCD is not actually a “format” that requires special players or decoding. Rather, an XRCD conforms to ...

Richard Vandersteen has accomplished many things in high-end audio, but building a loudspeaker that is competitive with the best in the world regardless of price heretofore has not been one of them. Instead Vandersteen has ...

Cartridges are fun and rather remarkable little things. While we know what they do, and can watch as they trace their way along a record’s groove, we can’t really see the stylus at work as ...

The Danish designer and manufacturer Johnnie Bergmann named his Sindre, a new straight line tracking integrated turntable, after Sindri, a dwarf in Norse mythology who forged Odin’s golden ring and Thor’s hammer. While forging and ...

A recent move meant trading my custom-built home-theater room for a small loft area in the new tract house. My previous room had been built from scratch and was packed with $33k worth of acoustic ...

I suppose I’m a lot like a great many vinyl fanciers. I don’t have an archival collection, but it’s a darn good mix of personal faves, nostalgia, and a few killer super discs. I’m not ...

Cambridge Audio has engineered some of the most consistently well-reviewed electronics this magazine has covered. Very recently I fell hard for the elite Cambridge Azur separates, the 840E preamp and 840W amplifier [Issue 186]. Editor-in-Chief ...

The fact that life can be unfair is hardly headline news. As the world has witnessed time and again—from Mozart to Billie Holiday, Van Gogh to Orson Welles, and more recently with our own friends ...

Many specialty audio companies begin life as one designer's unique take on how a given part of the audio chain can be improved. Such companies often start in a tinkerer's project room with a few ...

Raising the performance bar that additional centimeter can be difficult in the case of a speaker that had already set a high standard. After all, the original Helicon 400, released some seven years ago, had ...