Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 12 minutesAudiophiles can be a fractious lot – if you doubt that, dip into any online discussion of MQA. Yet there’s one truth that almost all of us accept: in the pursuit of high fidelity, room acoustics plays a huge role, and addressing acoustics can be more important than changing components. Given a room with high Read More »

Reading Time: 10 minutesWe all know the struggle. A new piece of gear pops up in your Instagram feed (you follow us for this very reason), catches your eye, and suddenly you’re smitten and in full-fledged research mode. Weeks, maybe even months of reading, watching, and comparing, and you finally pull the trigger and wait (impatiently) for your new toy Read More »

Reading Time: 10 minutesIt was some time ago that I was able to demonstrate that it is entirely possible to capture the essence of loving music through a $500 audiophile system (read the article). The “TL;DR” of this article is simple: Synergy and careful selection of high-value components can go a very long way toward achieving your audio goals on Read More »

Reading Time: 12 minutesEvery so often, FutureAudiophile.com likes to revisit a featured news story subject because of its major importance to the audiophile hobby. Because speaker placement is so important, and so unique to the room, we thought it might be interesting to look at some various practices in speaker positioning. Please note: some of the opinions expressed Read More »

Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen a British loudspeaker manufacturer with a five-decade legacy decides to look backward for inspiration, you know something interesting is about to happen. Monitor Audio’s latest offering pays homage to the culturally explosive 1980s with the Monitor Audio Studio 89, a compact bookshelf speaker that channels the aesthetic of their iconic 1989 Studio 15 while packing in cutting-edge technology Read More »

Reading Time: 11 minutesSpend any time whatsoever perusing the wealth of technical information on the audiophile hobby, and the importance of a low noise floor will be prominently discussed. Simply put, noise, aka distortion, is the enemy of an excellent-sounding audiophile musical reproduction system. Formally called Signal to Noise Ratio, or SNR, this term refers to the ratio of the Read More »