Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 10 minutesIt may not be widely known, but Class-D amplification has been around in one form or another since the 1950s. Credit is generally given to British engineer Alex Reeves, who invented pulse code modulation, which today is known as PCM. Towards the end of the 1950s, Reeves developed the concept of having a PCM amplifier Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutesI recently reviewed the PS Audio PMG Signature preamp (read my review) and was highly impressed. I remember it sounding extremely open, highly detailed and blazingly fast, but never edgy or harsh. When I had the opportunity to review another PS Audio Signature product, I was eager to get my hands on it. Enter the PMG Signature 512 Read More »

Reading Time: 8 minutesWith all due respect, the establishment audiophile publications don’t spend enough time talking about the importance of room treatments, in even the most modest of stereo systems. Let me make this as clear as I possibly can: there is nothing that you can do to make your sound better (for less money) than to physically Read More »

Reading Time: 2 minutesFamed audiophile loudspeaker manufacturer, Dynaudio, will announce tomorrow that they are pulling out of the United States market. This news has been confirmed, first hand, by an executive with direct knowledge of the situation at Dynaudio North America.  Factors such as import tariffs and inflation are main drivers of the decision. Poor marketing, focused on older Read More »

Reading Time: 2 minutesAudioDeskSysteme Gläss GmbH is best known for nearly two decades of manufacturing “the original” Vinyl Cleaner, the first fully automatic ultrasonic record cleaning machine that has been considered the benchmark in its product category ever since being introduced in 2009. Over the past seventeen years of manufacturing, the Vinyl Cleaner has evolved in terms of Read More »

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn 1987, Arnie Nudell, Cary Christie, John Ulrick and Bill Watkins, the legendary designers of Infinity Systems, introduced the Infinity Reference Standard, or IRS, speaker system. This was by far the most ambitious speaker design of its day. And even by today’s standards, few speaker systems are as complicated and take up as much space Read More »