CES is no place for someone looking for audio certainty in an uncertain world. The clash of competing designs is most evident in the loudspeaker arena, which resembles a dog show with its bewildering range ...

This year's CES seemed more relaxed than last year's, at least in the corridors of the primary “High Performance Audio” venue, The Venetian, Las Vegas. Maybe people are just not continually, anxiously trying to predict ...

The rolling juggernaut that is computer-based audio continued to build on the momentum it has established in recent years. At all price levels, this year’s CES saw introductions of more USB/DACs, both bundled and stand-alone ...

Like me (up until a few months ago), most of you have probably never heard of the German turntable manufacturing firm Acoustic Signature, its brilliant chief engineer and CEO Gunther Frohnhöfer, or its beautiful, massive ...

About a month ago, Warren Gehl, the Golden Ear at Audio Research Corporation who has done the voicing of ARC’s latest (and top-to-bottom superlative) line of electronics, called me up with some bleak news: “You ...

Wilson Audio invited me to Provo, Utah just a few days before Christmas for an early look and listen to its new top-of-the-line Alexandria XLF loudspeaker. TAS Contributing Writer Jacob Heilbrunn, who owns Wilson's X-2 ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. Another October, another trek to the Mile High City to hear some of the world’s best loudspeakers—and see old friends. Rocky Mountain Audio ...

Have you ever attended an “amplified” live performance by a symphony orchestra, opera, or musical theater company, a dance troupe, choral group, or jazz band, and been completely underwhelmed by the overall sonics, even when ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. Before getting to my beat at this show—electronics above $15k—I’d like to tell you about what was for me show’s sonic and musical ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. This year's RAMF show was pleasant and filled with a wide variety of products to listen to, ranging from one-piece tabletop units with ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. As a writer familiar with covering trader events, it’s easy to forget the impact a regional consumer show like RMAF can have. Leaving ...

I’ve never really considered Sony to be a “player” in high-end still photography (although it has long been one in professional videography). Its top-end SLRs—the A900 and (now discontinued) A850—received mixed reviews (great at base ...

As KEF celebrates its 50th Anniversary, I thought it would be interesting to look at the early association between KEF and The Absolute Sound. As one of the first loudspeaker companies to offer high-performance loudspeakers, ...

Last weekend I traveled to Berkeley, CA, and spent three solid days listening to Magico’s latest aluminum-enclosed speaker, the $25k stand-mounted Q1 mini-monitor. To be honest, though I’d been invited to audition the Q1s several ...

Alive and Kicking: Report from T.H.E. Show Newport Beach Robert Harley Of the 70 or so hi-fi shows I’ve attended around the world, I’d have to say that T.H.E. Show held at the Newport Beach ...