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 ...

I recently completed an article on the controversial “natural’ wine movement for Edible San Francisco magazine. For you non-oenophiles in our audience, this growing movement practices organic or biodynamic viticulture, a relatively non-interventionist style of ...

Up until about three weeks ago, if someone had asked me who in the States makes the best dynamic speakers I would without hesitation have answered: “Alon Wolf of Magico and Andy Payor of Rockport.” ...

Meet the new boss in tube preamplifiers chez Valin. No, it’s not the same as the same as the old boss of the Valin household, the Audio Research Reference 3, my reference tube linestage for ...

Not too long ago I proposed an article to our Editor in Chief, Mr. Harley, to be called “What Would You Really Buy?” By this I did not mean what would our reviewers buy if ...

Boxing fans may remember that when former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson entered the ring, there was no satin robe. He wore only black trunks, and black high-tops, no socks. No frills. He was just sending ...

This review began with my search for a speaker system to help turn my office into a new listening room. It gradually transformed, however, into a search for a system that was more musical or ...

This is Part 2 of Anthony H. Cordesman's Review of the Quad system. You can read Part 1 here. Quad 99 Stereo Preamplifier If you are a true high-end puritan, you are going to be ...

There is always a danger in talking about a “revolution” in high-end audio. I’m sitting near my turntable as I write this, and listening to an LP dating back to the 1960s. I’m also listening ...

The KEF 203/2 is a medium-proportioned floorstander that occupies the sweetspot in KEF’s prestigious Reference line—a range of seven models—the majestic, four-way, 145-pound Reference 207/2 holding court at the summit. Standing roughly 40” tall the ...

Clearaudio’s Innovation Wood turntable combines some stunning new innovations along with others that have been applied to much of the Clearaudio line during the past four to five years, like ceramic magnetic bearing (CMB) technology ...