Did your interest in the high end come from the music side or the electronics side Definitely from the music side. I’ve been a music lover from childhood. I can remember at the age of ...

Digital-to-analog converters have become stunningly sophisticated over the past 30 years, evolving from small circuits inside early CD players to stand-alone components with advanced capabilities and performance unimaginable to the CD’s inventors. The separation of ...

Google “SACD + Dead” and you’ll get quite a few hits. Some reference high-resolution recordings—several versions of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead, or albums from Dead Can Dance, or some San Francisco band that ...

Established in 1991, Ayon Audio quickly outgrew its domestic Austrian market to reach a global audience with a line of tube amplifiers. Its first CD player arrived in 2006, and with Gerhard Hirt as CEO, ...

I recently had the privilege of attending a unique event hosted by Larry Borden of Distinctive Stereo in River Vale, NJ, to announce and demonstrate his new line of loudspeakers from Genesis Advanced Technologies. In ...

Of all the years to get invited to visit Hong Kong to check out the show and audio scene there, this proved to be a more exciting one than most. No need to go into ...

Munich High End is undoubtedly the largest high-end audio extravaganza in the world. It not only featured some of the best products recently displayed at AXPONA Chicago (another incredible show!), but also a wide array ...

It’s no secret that AXPONA has been experiencing a growth spurt. Last year marked a move to a new venue, the Renaissance Schaumberg Convention Center Hotel, in Schaumberg, IL, outside Chicago. In scope, attendance, and ...

The following is a press release issued by Bending Wave USA. January 7, 2019 - Bending Wave USA will host a grand opening of its new showroom in Davie, Florida on January 26th and 27th. ...

Now under the auspices of Sound United (along with Denon, Classé Audio, and other brands), Marantz is back on the map. The classic audio company has been celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with recent ...

The following announcement is based on press information provided by NoHo Sound. Manhattan specialty audio retailer NoHo Sound will be hosting an open house on Thursday, July 19th from noon to 8p.m. Special guests Jonathan ...

The Munich High-End Show’s preeminence as the world’s biggest and most important event was solidified by this year’s gathering. Munich has not only effectively replaced CES for international business but has also become the major ...

Quad Artera Play $2199 Past Quad preamplifiers have included phonostages, balance and tone controls, and high and low filters. The Play discards all these in favor of an orientation that is effectively all digital (despite ...

The following is a press release issued by OPPO. April 4, 2018 - It has been 14 years since we established OPPO Digital in the United States, and with the support of our customers, technical ...

Oppo UDP-205 $1295 Oppo has followed up on its spectacularly successful UDP-105 universal disc player with the new UDP-205. This player does it all: CD, SACD, Blu-ray, Ultra HD (4k), and multichannel music. It even ...