VTL S-200 $15,000 VTL’s Luke Manley and his team have made the 200Wpc S-200 relatively idiot-proof for listeners who enjoy the sound of vacuum tubes without the need to geek-out or otherwise futz around with ...

December 3, 2019 | AUSTIN, TX -- NextScreen, LLC, publishers of The Absolute Sound and HiFi+, is announcing today that Lee Scoggins will be joining the team as President, NextScreen Publishing Group. The newly formed ...

The opportunity to cover Warsaw’s Audio Video Show 2019 was pitched to me this way, by both the editor-in-chief of this magazine and the event’s organizers: “It’s the second biggest audio show in Europe!” Sort ...

For eight years, an Anthem Statement D2v processor has been at the heart of my audio system. Multichannel music is a priority for me and in 2011, when I purchased the D2v, there were not ...

INNOVATIVE PRESENTS THE REMARKABLE SPECTRAL DMA300SV REFERENCE STANDARD AMPLIFIER The following is a press release issued by Innovative Audio. October 31, 2019 - On Thursday, November 14, from 5-9pm, Innovative Audio Video Showrooms (150 E. ...

Completed in 2018, the Statue of Unity, in the Gujarat region of India, is the largest statue in the world. It stands 597 feet tall, almost four times taller than the Statue of Liberty. If ...

D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Relentless Amplifier $250,000 Dan D’Agostino swung for the fences with his new monoblock amplifier. These 570-pound amplifiers are a rare fusion of beauty and the beast, a precious object that will ...

The following is a press relase issued by High End by Oz and Vitus Audio. November 4, 2019 - High End by Oz LLC proudly announces the launch of Vitus Audio service center in Los ...

MBL 101 X-treme Loudspeaker $260,000 In honor of the 101 X-tremes’ tenth anniversary, I invited these new and improved versions of MBL’s 2000-pound, twin-chassis flagship loudspeakers back into my listening room. Comprising two Radialstrahler columns—each ...

Lyra Etna Cartridge $8995 Jacob Heilbrunn raved about the SL version of this mc cartridge, but that model’s very low output renders it a specialty product for use only in systems with very-high-gain phonostages. The ...

The following is a press release issued by Burning Amp. San Francisco, CA | October 30, 2019 - Nov. 9, 2019 — The 12th annual Burning Amp Festival 2019 will be held Saturday, November 9 ...

T+A Elektroakustik DAC 8 DSD Digital-to-Analog Converter $4450 Many digital audio experts maintain that it’s just not possible to optimize decoding of both PCM and DSD data streams with a one-lane architecture, even though there ...

The following is a press release issued by Yamaha. Buena Park, California | October 23, 2019 - Yamaha is making the biggest statement in the Hi-Fi market since it coined the term “Hi-Fi” 65 years ...

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 ...

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