It may seem odd to many of you that at this particular moment in the high end when media servers and other hard-drive/solid state drive components are hogging most of the attention that I should ...

Editor's Note: The Absolute Sound recently published its 2010 Editors' Choice Award Winners. Following are the selections in the loudspeakers from $2,000 to $3,000 category. Many have links to the full reviews. Enjoy! JH B&W ...

The World’s Most Expensive Loudspeakers Robert Harley There’s been much debate in the pages of The Absolute Sound lately about the high-cost of certain audio components. For some reason, Wilson Audio seems to be a ...

The Magneplanar 1.7—the first new loudspeaker from Magnepan in better than a decade—was the most eagerly anticipated introduction at this year’s CES. Happily, its debut turned out to be a smashing success. Even more happily, ...

There were several things that made me decide to try my hand at audio journalism in the fall of 1972. I hadn’t intended to make a career out of it—in a sense, it was an ...

Having heard versions of the TAD Compact Reference (TAD stands for Technical Audio Devices) for a couple years now I wasn’t believing my eyes a couple weeks ago when this speaker finally appeared on my ...

News doesn't get much better than this! Elusive Disc, Inc recently announced its appointment as the exclusive distributor of the JVC XRCD product line for North America. They assumed operations in November of 2006. With ...

I suppose I’m a lot like a great many vinyl fanciers. I don’t own an archival collection but it’s a good assortment with a mix of personal faves and nostalgia, and occasional killer super-discs. While ...

This little sweetheart measures a mere 10 inches and nearly the same deep but it’s another beauty from a company that takes the prosaic wood enclosure and with a couple curves and bevels and flourishes ...

Well, now, looky here what Jonny's got! Yup. The very item I (and a lot of other folks) called the best source component at RMAF (and would've named the best source component at CES, if ...

Best Sound:I heard great sounds from the Wilson Sasha, the refrigerator-like Dynaudio Consequence Ultimate and even the new and smaller two-way YG Carmel. But anchored by the superlative Vandersteen 7 and assisted by Aesthetix electronics, ...

The super stealthy Esoteric RZ-1 ($6000) was one of those components I couldn’t get out of my head. It hides its complexity beneath a silver vault-like exterior. Part slot-loaded SACD/CD transport, part integrated amplifier with ...

Although I’ve been singing the praises of the Mamiya 7 II rangefinder film camera and Mamiya 7 II lenses to friends and colleagues alike, let’s face it: There are occasions when the sheer convenience of ...

As it was at CES, the Lotus Group Granada was a model of neutrality. Even though it was digitizing analog sources via its DSP crossover (which not only crosses over the woofers to the Feastrex ...

Although I liked the sound of Marten loudspeakers in the past, they always seemed like Swedish versions of Kharmas, and since Kharma was then still active in the U.S. market I saw little reason to ...