In the past two decades, a slow evolution has taken place in audio, as top-notch designers come more and more to understand the nature of the beasts they are working with. Today it is not ...

British specialist manufacturer ATC (Acoustic Transducer Company) outfits some of the world’s elite recording studios, mastering facilities, and concert halls with its powered, or “active,” monitoring speakers. But the company’s pro reputation has unfairly overshadowed ...

Those who read my review of the REL Britannia B3 subwoofer (Issue 163) may recall my impressions of the REL Spec Synergistic Research Resolution Reference subwoofer cable and Master Coupler power cord. They boosted the ...

I don’t know Alan Shaw personally, but on the basis of Harbeth, the company he has owned for many years, and the speakers he has authored, I’d guess that one of his missions in life ...

Although it’s been more than three years since I first reviewed the Ayre CX-7, I’ll bet a slice of the best cherry pie you’ve ever tasted that you won’t need a side-by-side comparison against the ...

The resurgent market for CDreceivers suggests a couple of things to me. People want greatsounding audio in rooms other than dedicated listening environments. They also want small-footprint audiophilequality gear that is proportional to the space ...

Before I heard the Torus—the revolutionary “Infrasonic Generator” from Wilson-Benesch, the British hi-fi firm that put carbonfiber enclosures, drivers, tonearms, and turntables on the audio map—my rule of thumb about adding a subwoofer to a ...

I first encountered JL Audio at the 2005 CEDIA Expo—the event this respected manufacturer of caraudio speakers and electronics used to launch its entry into the high-end-audio and home-theater markets. To say I walked into ...

Lyngdorf ’s RoomPerfect TDAI 2200 is a digital amplifier with a built-in, stand-alone (no computer interface) room-correction system of a new and unusually sophisticated sort. Visually, it is elegantly understated and rather smaller than one ...

The high end is by and large a specialty market driven by enthusiasts—enthusiasts who don’t know the meaning of the word compromise. But what about the audio buff who doesn’t want to set his sights ...

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 ...