Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 7 minutesOnkyo as a brand is in a time of resurgence. After being somewhat dormant for a few years while the company was for sale, Onkyo has re-remerged with the ICON product line in 2025 with the M-80 amplifier, the P-80 network preamplifier, and the A-50 integrated amplifier, before releasing the C-30 CD player in early Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutesI had the opportunity to review the sub-$1,000 per pair Chesky Audio LC1 bookshelf monitors (read the review) in 2025 and came away impressed by what was likely the first of many loudspeaker designs by college student and audio prodigy Lucca Chesky. The unique 3D-printed cabinet and quality components Chesky employed in the LC1s have made their Read More »

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: 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 »