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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life is full of surprises. Even so, it came as a bit of a shock to chance upon two Saudi Arabians with high-end-audio ambitions at MOC 2013. Beyond sand, oil, and camels, very few of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...