Everyone’s heard the old saw that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Some weeks ago during my evaluation of the TAD CR-1 loudspeaker I snapped one of the banana terminations of the Wireworld Platinum Eclipse ...

I know it’s a stretch, but for the sake of argument let’s say that you don’t have six dimes to drop on a pair of the highest-fidelity, lowest-coloration, fullest-range loudspeakers I’ve heard in my home—the ...

Over the last few months, I’ve come across a number of new devices for room treatment and vibration/resonance control that really work in the ways that I like such things to work—which is to say, ...

The ARC Reference 2—William Zane Johnson’s statement phonostage and only the second ARC phono preamp to be designated a “Reference” product in this decade—arrived about three weeks ago, replete with new features never before seen ...

Save for Saturday afternoon, I thought the high-end exhibits at CES were poorly attended this year, which was a shame because, at least in my pearly neck of the woods, the sound was for the ...

Sometimes it’s worth the extra effort to venture off-site. In this instance, at the Mirage Hotel, MBL of Germany debuted it's entry level Corona series. The six component line will ultimately replace the venerable Classic ...

Most Significant Product Introduction The new line of electronics from Constellation Audio is perhaps the most ambitious assault yet on the state of the art in audio amplification. This Australian company who brought us the ...

Most Important Trend The most significant trend at this year's CES was undoubtedly the rise of devices whose names start with a lowercase “i” as music-sources. The iPad and iPhone were everywhere as sources, with ...

Best Sound (cost-no-object) I heard quite a number of outstanding systems at this show. My contenders for Best Sound include Sonus faber’s $250k flagship loudspeaker (called simply the “Sonus faber”) driven by Audio Research 610t ...

Just a brief word or two about some speakers I heard on the last day of the show. The B&W 804 Diamond, set up with some electronics in a suite at the Mirage, sounded very ...

One of the standouts during Day 2 was the new integrated amplifier from Perreaux. The respected New Zealand brand is in the midst of a stateside resurgence with the Audiant integrated amp leading the way. ...

The D-Premier integrated amplifier from France's Devialet, which has caused quite a stir in Europe, made its US debut at CES. The reason everyone's talking about the D-Premier is that it operates like no previous ...

About half of Day One was taken up with me trying to figure out transportation, press badge pickup, and getting the basic lay of the land, since I had not attended a CES at the ...

On the previous day, I noted too many rooms had a prominent glare and a bite to their respective sounds. On Day Two, this was largely gone. Break-in and setup adjustments may have had something ...

In the last few years I generally expect CES Thursdays to be fairly mellow, sparsely attended afternoons. Not the case this year. I’m no pundit but the sense of economic recovery was definitely in the ...