The enormous, palatial Schaumberg Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center played host to this year’s fully resurrected Audio eXPO North America. Boasting over 165 listening rooms, with another 125 exhibits on site, and with attendance up ...

AXPONA 2018 starts out with a new location and a new attitude. The new location is the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois, which is a 15–20 minute ride from O'Hare International ...

Here’s an unanticipated finding: TAS’ Jonathan Valin, assigned the impossible task of covering all loudspeakers at the vast High End Munich show last year, observed that most were priced above $20,000 per pair. At AXPONA ...

This year’s Axpona was full of surprises. First there was the new venue, the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, which was designed specifically for trade shows and other gatherings of like-minded folk. It was large, clean, ...

Click here to read part one of this report. Campfire Audio Campfire Audio has earned a reputation for manufacturing some of the most finely crafted and sonically accomplished high performance earphones presently available (watch for ...

Ultimate Headphone Guide is a new bi-annual publication that represents a joint venture between The Absolute Sound magazine and its sister publication Hi-Fi+. My name is Chris Martens and I have the privilege of serving ...

Terror on the 29th Floor It’s over. Or, is it? First impressions at CES 2018 told me that for all intents and purposes the high end will not be returning to Las Vegas in the ...

It’s no secret that the high-end audio portion of CES has contracted in size and scope over the last handful of years. However, the clichéd aphorism “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” just might ...

Taking High-Resolution Mainstream The biggest event at CES, at least for the high end, was a press gathering at the Las Vegas Convention Center to promote high-resolution audio. Organized by the Digital Entertainment Group, the ...

Ah, Las Vegas! As we were taxiing in from McCarran airport I saw a big neon sign in front of a strip joint just off I-15. In ten-foot-high letters it read: “Veni, Vidi, Veni,” which ...

With an assist from Forrest Gump, let me say that audio shows are like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re going to get. This year there was plenty of good sound to ...

This year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest had far less angst than last year's event. The show venue was no longer under renovation and exhibitors were better able to deal with the acoustic challenges presented by ...

I may lack the exceptional abilities of some heads of state when it comes to estimating crowd size, but the attendance at this year's Rocky Mountain Audio Fest looked pretty robust to me. With the ...

Fall in the Rocky Mountains. And what better place to view the changing colors than from the heights of the Marriott Tech Center tower, while listening to music, of course. This year’s show was in ...

The LA Audio Show was a good show, with a pleasant venue at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, easy parking, crowds large enough to make it worthwhile for exhibitors but not so large that listening was ...