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 ...

Turntable manufacturer Basis Audio is featured in the television series "World's Greatest! . . . ". The show's producers select only one company to feature from each of the industries they cover.

Graham Engineering Phantom III Tonearm $7000–$7900 Since the introduction of the original Phantom B-44, this “stable” uni-pivot tonearm has been an excellent performer with superb build-quality that speaks to its durability and longevity. Through a ...

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 ...

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 ...

PS Audio Sprout100 Integrated Amplifier $599 Even when I’m not doing critical listening, I still find myself returning frequently and fondly to the super-sounding and retro-stylish Sprout100 integrated amp, a new and improved version of ...

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 ...

In an early February editorial entitled “Vinyl Revival Marks the Tone of Our Times,” the Financial Times observed that “audiophiles claim analogue vinyl sounds better than digital downloads or CDs.” Indeed they do. One of ...

Cables, Power Products, and Accessories AudioQuest conductive fiber record brush, $22.95 Caig Deoxit contact cleaner, $32.95 Shunyata Research Venom 14 AC power cord, $95 Synergistic Research Foundation Series, $499/$599 Entry Level Grado Prestige Black2 phono ...

Wilson Benesch Eminence Loudspeaker $235,000 The Eminence is a nothing short of a technical tour de force in advanced loudspeaker design. With its in-house-made carbon-fiber enclosure, custom drivers, isobaric woofer loading, innovative tweeter, and no-compromise ...

Magico S7 Loudspeaker $58,000 I’ve been using the Magico S7 as a reference for some years now, and the only nitpick I can make that it may be too revealing. It does a superb job ...

About three years ago I reviewed what was then the best record player I’d heard—the $105k Acoustic Signature Invictus. As I wrote at the time, this 315-pound, FEA-engineered, CNC-milled, six-motor, dual-belt-driven, 2.6-foot-wide by 2.4-foot-deep, vaguely ...