Articles
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Sandy Gross Showing Triton One at Gramophone
|On Thursday, September 5 from 6PM to 9 PM, there will be a special event entitled The Great Reveal at Gramophone, 8880 McGraw Road, Columbia Maryland 21045. Featured will be Sandy Gross, founder of GoldenEar ...read more -
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Sunday Morning Hi Fi #1
|Welcome to Sunday Morning Hi Fi #1, the first installment of a weekly blog and a place to discuss high-end audio, discover new music, get sneak peaks of new products, make breakfast, and uncover existential ...read more -
Richard “Dick” Hardesty 1944–2014
|We lost Richard L. Hardesty to cancer on August 19th, 2014 at age 70. Dick’s was a life lived in audio, first as a retailer and then as a writer. Dick was a consummate educator ...read more -
Overture Ultimate Audio/Video Hosts Robert Harley of The Absolute Sound and Alon Wolf of Magico
|June 10, 2014 - Overture Ultimate Home Electronics in Wilmington, Delaware, will present an afternoon of music and audio with special guests Robert Harley and Alon Wolf. Robert will present TAS’s landmark new book The ...read more -
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What’s New in Newport Beach
|Want to have your copy of The Absolute Sound’s Illustrated History of High-End Audio, Volume One: Loudspeakers signed by some of the greatest loudspeaker designers in the world? Read on to find out more! The ...read more -
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TAS Book Signing at AXPONA
|If you were one of the more than 3,500 attendees at this year’s AXPONA 2014, we hope that you had a great show. We hope you had an opportunity to stop by The Absolute Sound’s ...read more -
Golden Age Broadway Musicals On Record
|Most of the songs that make up what we now call The Great American Songbook originated in Broadway shows. These were songs everyone knew, sang along with and danced to, and were written by George ...read more -
Chesky Records Releases The Ultimate Headphone Demonstration Disc
|March 25, 2014 - There's no doubt about it; we are living in the Golden Age of Headphone Design. At every price category, headphones have never sounded better. You can hear superior detailing and clarity ...read more -
Cabasse Announces Exclusive Partnership With Integra
|March 24, 2014 - Cabasse and Integra are proud to announce a new partnership for the distribution of the Cabasse brand: Integra will be the exclusive distributor of the Cabasse Hi-Fi loudspeakers line in the ...read more -
An Interview with Neil Young and Pono CEO John Hamm
|With all of these music lovers shelling out thousands of dollars to spend a week listening to thousands of bands, one would think that high-end audio would have its place amid the chaos of South ...read more -
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San Francisco Event With Neil Gader
|Take advantage of a rare opportunity to learn how Neil Gader -- TAS Associate Editor and Acquisitions Manager, and high-end audio journalist for more than 20 years -- reviews a hi-fi system. He'll be at ...read more -
Mack Avenue Records
|These days it’s tough to create and sustain a jazz label that has any real impact. One challenge is that, as guitarist Marc Ribot has pointed out, jazz artists suffer a great deal more than ...read more -
The ABCs of DSD Downloads
|It seems like there’s always some hot-button issue for audiophiles to debate. For the last couple of years, it was the ability to play high-resolution (176.4 or 192kHz/24-bit) computer-audio music files. Now it’s almost impossible ...read more -
Meridian Brings its Signature Technologies to Car Audio in the New Range Rover
|Meridian Audio has entered the OEM car-audio market with a range of systems offered in Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. I spent three days sampling a 2014 Range Rover equipped with Meridian’s top-of-the-line, 29-speaker, 1700W ...read more