Please check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. The KEF exhibit was dwarfed in the Omni’s high-ceiled, lobby-level ballroom, but it didn’t seem to bother the cutting edge Blade loudspeaker–TAS’ current cover story-a ...

Please check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4. Summoning an audible gasp were the Audio Power Labs 833TNT monoblocks ($175k). Engineered and built in Columbus Ohio, nothing adequately describes what it’s like to ...

Several significant high-performance audio products made their US, consumer, and/or worldwide debuts at the 3rd Annual California Audio Show from August 3rd through 5th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Burlingame, California. This was a ...

August 10th 2012 - Hong Kong High-End Audio Visual show - dCS launches the Vivaldi Digital Playback System - a new four-box range which represents the pinnacle of their ‘no compromise’ approach to product design ...

The Perfect Vision Guide to Surround Sound Speaker Systems includes over 100 pages of expert commentary about speakers that make your home theater experience more engaging and enjoyable. It is available as a FREE download ...

If you audiophiles think that new and improved models are coming onto the market at an accelerated pace, try dipping a toe into the photography biz. Within the last few months, we’ve seen the announcement ...

This year’s CES was high on audio excitement, but (with several exceptions we will come to) not so high on fidelity. But…that’s okay. I’m sure that the vast majority of ultra-high-end loudspeaker-makers probably figure that ...

By the third day I could walk into a room and, without asking a single question, know if the speakers on view were in my price category. Not because of their sound, but because of ...

CES is no place for someone looking for audio certainty in an uncertain world. The clash of competing designs is most evident in the loudspeaker arena, which resembles a dog show with its bewildering range ...

This year's CES seemed more relaxed than last year's, at least in the corridors of the primary “High Performance Audio” venue, The Venetian, Las Vegas. Maybe people are just not continually, anxiously trying to predict ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. Another October, another trek to the Mile High City to hear some of the world’s best loudspeakers—and see old friends. Rocky Mountain Audio ...

Have you ever attended an “amplified” live performance by a symphony orchestra, opera, or musical theater company, a dance troupe, choral group, or jazz band, and been completely underwhelmed by the overall sonics, even when ...

Click here to check out our entire list of RMAF 2011 blogs. This year's RAMF show was pleasant and filled with a wide variety of products to listen to, ranging from one-piece tabletop units with ...

I’ve never really considered Sony to be a “player” in high-end still photography (although it has long been one in professional videography). Its top-end SLRs—the A900 and (now discontinued) A850—received mixed reviews (great at base ...

As KEF celebrates its 50th Anniversary, I thought it would be interesting to look at the early association between KEF and The Absolute Sound. As one of the first loudspeaker companies to offer high-performance loudspeakers, ...