When my sister-in-law visited my wife and me a few months ago, she was captivated by the sound of my stereo. Like most people, Daryl had no idea that music could be reproduced with such ...

Apex, North Carolina - November 12, 2012 - The Hercules power amplifier is an ultra linear tube amplifier using EL34 output tubes to produce 30 watts per channel. Boasting premium components, it features a very ...

October 31, 2012 - 1st. of November Electrocompaniet is launching a new integrated amplifier with a built-in DAC in the Prelude range. The amplifier is based on the much acclaimed PI 2 amplifier boosting 2 ...

When I recently visited the nice folks at Hegel Music Systems at their research and development site in Oslo, Norway, I initially met up with Anders Ertzeid, Hegel's VP of Marketing and Sales, who graciously ...

APEX, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 23, 2012 - When music is the goal, the new Constellation tube preamplifier is a perfect choice. The Constellation uses the excellent 6SN7 tube running in Class-A triode mode that is ...

The 2012 edition of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest revealed a well-oiled and established show, and one that has achieved a comfortable equilibrium of size and attendance. Frankly I was concerned how well it would ...

Masataka Tsuda, founder and chief designer of Silicon Arts Design and Concert Fidelity, is quietly gaining a reputation as an important voice in high-end audio. Born in 1959, in the midst of Japan’s post-war economic ...

I don’t know if Nicolaus Copernicus was eating oxtail soup, looking at an apple falling from a tree, or cleaning his astrolabe when he thought up his theory of the revolution of celestial spheres, set ...

Two Gamut power amplifier models have been alternately pulling duty in my system for a few months. My full review of the D200i stereo amp and an accompanying sidebar about the M250i mono amps will ...

William Zane Johnson, God bless him, may be gone and his path-breaking company, the Audio Research Corporation, may now be owned by an Italian holding company, but in spite of the loss of its founder ...

The comedian Emo Philips once said of women: “You can’t live with them, and you can’t get them to dress up in skimpy little Nazi uniforms.” I often recall this line as I contemplate my ...

It was only a matter of time before NAD brought the groundbreaking technology and architecture of its M2 Direct Digital Amplifier to a lower-priced product. The $6000 M2, which I reviewed in Issue 198, is ...

Most Significant Product Introduction The new line of electronics from Constellation Audio is perhaps the most ambitious assault yet on the state of the art in audio amplification. This Australian company who brought us the ...

It’s official; T.H.E. Show Newport has become the premier U.S. hi-fi show. Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, this year’s show expanded to an adjacent second hotel and saw a 50% increase in ...

I’m fortunate to be able to choose from the roughly 700 high-end products introduced annually approximately ten or twelve components to review myself. These are the components I’m going to live with for many months, ...