I first encountered Starke Sound loudspeakers at T.H.E. Show Newport a couple of years ago. As I elbowed my way into Starke’s crowded demo room, I was impressed by the buzz of excitement from the ...

Great audio shows are not born overnight­—they are works in progress. The inaugural LA Audio Show at the Sheraton-Gateway Hotel proved that despite some organizational hiccups there is much potential still to be mined. Indeed, ...

Back in the mid-1980s, Infinity Systems, which had just been bought by Harman, introduced the idea of branded, premium in-car audio by offering Infinity audio systems in Chrysler vehicles. Of course, today every auto manufacturer ...

Imagine a collision between CES and CEDIA when both were at their peak, and you’ll have an idea of how enormous and jam-packed with goodies Munich High End is. There’s simply nothing else like it ...

Sony SS-NA2ES $10,000 Inspired by the flagship Sony SS-AR1 and SS-AR2, but brought to a lower price, the NA2ES shares many virtues with its bigger brothers, and only limited losses from having to meet the ...

You may have heard the news by now: There’s a new show on the block, the LA Audio Show that will be held June 2–4 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel (not far from LAX). This ...

How did your interest in high-end audio begin? I grew up with it, really. My father began developing the Manger sound transducer in the late Sixties. What was your first high-end system? What year was ...

You don’t need to be a connoisseur of compact loudspeakers to recognize that the Aerial Acoustics Model 5T is quite a looker. Short (a mere 15" in height), dark, and handsome, it’s a gracefully proportioned ...

Why is it that, every now and then, something sounds “real” through a stereo system rather than “reproduced”? If you’re expecting me to answer this question, you’re out of luck, because I don’t know the ...

In Issue 272 I left little doubt about how much I enjoyed the flexibility and musicality of Audioengine’s HD6 powered loudspeaker system. For a compact barely a foot tall, this plucky bundle had it all—it ...

The 2017 event, which was clearly the best attended and most vibrant of the current four-year Chicago run of AXPONAs, will be last in this highly successful series to be held at the Westin O’Hare. ...

As was the case at CES in January, I have some good news and some bad news about AXPONA 2017, held the third week of April in Chi-Town. The funny thing is that the good ...

If you think mini-monitor means small sound, the Air Tight Bonsai will have you thinking again. Forget mini; the sound here is decidedly, uh, maxi. For starters, the speaker’s wide dispersion and voluptuously full and ...

As enthusiastic as I’ve been about Audience’s tiny ClairAudient 1+1 V2+ speaker, I’m afraid that I’ve done the product a disservice. All my references to it have described it as a “desktop” speaker, and that’s ...

Micromega’s ever-expanding “MyRange” of compact and affordable electronics has in just a few short years grown to encompass the MyDac (TAS’ 2012 Product of the Year), MyAmp, MyGroov (you guessed it, a phonostage), and a ...