Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 8 minutesThese are exciting times to be an audiophile. It wasn’t long ago that really good-sounding equipment was financially out of reach for many of us. Value-oriented companies such as Schiit, Topping, Benchmark and countless others have been pushing back against this old paradigm for several years now. Ferrum is a quasi-newcomer that can be added Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutesI wonder if anyone outside of vinyl junkies purchases physical copies of music anymore? While recently in a slowly dying mall, I happened across a regional pop-culture store that my daughter wanted to browse. Of course they had vinyl, but also CDs and a small collection of new cassette tapes. This store, which also stocked Read More »

Reading Time: 12 minutesWe hope that Arkansas-based Klipsch does not require a lengthy introduction as one of the most recognizable legacy audio brands of the modern audiophile era. Like many big-name manufacturers, Klipsch makes everything from entry-level bookshelf speakers, sold at big box stores, to $40,000-per-pair custom Klipsch Heritage Jubilee floorstanding speakers, with seemingly endless product offerings in Read More »

Reading Time: 8 minutesI have never met anyone who does not like music. We are all, to greater or lesser degrees, lovers of music. Many of us enthusiasts attend concerts. We rock out in the car, we sing and, yes, we listen to stereo systems. I am absolutely convinced everyone likes music in some form or another and 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 »