Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 7 minutesIf there is an audiophile company that needs no introduction, it’s Bowers & Wilkins. Their legendary speakers are used in some of the most famous studios in the world, including Abbey Road and Skywalker Ranch. When I learned that I was going to have their top-of-the-line subwoofer, the DB1D, sent to me for review, I was excited. One Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutesI’ve been an audiophile since the mid-1980s.  Since that time, I’ve owned more loudspeakers than I can remember, and I’ve listened to several hundred beyond those that I ultimately purchased. I have owned countless passive speakers and a few powered ones. Dome tweeters, Horn tweeters, AMT tweeters, ribbon tweeters, titanium tweeters, soft-dome tweeters, Beryllium tweeters, aluminum tweeters, diamond Read More »

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: 6 minutesOne of the biggest challenges that the audiophile hobby faces is awareness across any number of demographic groups or genders. It is true that most women aren’t drawn to the hobby for a whole host of reasons, but not loving music isn’t one of them. Pretty much everybody loves music at some level or other. 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 »