Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 8 minutesAudio-Technica was founded in 1962 by Hideo Matsushita in Tokyo, Japan. Matsushita created his first products (the AT-1 and AT-3, which were moving magnet cartridges) in his apartment, while working a full-time job as an art curator at the Bridgestone Museum. He was inspired by how much people loved the Hi-Fi sound, but he was frustrated Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutesU-Turn Audio  began humbly in 2012 via a Kickstarter campaign aimed at producing stylish, affordable analog turntables. After a successful crowd-funded launch, the Massachusetts-based brand has since grown into an industry favorite nearly a decade-and-a-half later, building a reputation for unpretentious, affordable, well-engineered gear that consistently punches above its weight class.  The U-Turn Audio Orbit Theory turntable sits at Read More »

Reading Time: 7 minutesThere aren’t many audiophiles who have leaned into the CI (custom install) space as hard as I have over the past 20-plus years. I still own a first-generation Kaleidescape, which is big, noisy, costly and likely something that needs to go on eBay.com sometime soon. FutureAudiophile.com is unabashedly an audiophile publication. For the purposes of 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 »

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis new major is designed for students whose musical practice is grounded in electronic and digital technologies, fostering both artistic and technical fluency in areas such as electronic music production and performance, sound design, recording and editing, DJing, and the development of software and hardware. The program will blend hands-on experimentation with engagement in a Read More »