Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 8 minutesAt the growing number of audiophile shows in the United States one of the big problems that audiophiles face is determining what exactly one is listening too? For example, if you go into a cable manufacturer’s room what effect does the cables have on the system being played? If they aren’t doing an A/B test Read More »

Reading Time: 14 minutesThere was a time when my concerted opinion of the entire subwoofer category, at least as it applied to a two-channel audiophile system, was something in which I was totally uninterested. I had floorstanding speakers easily capable of a low end of 30 Hz, or lower, so why bother? I was not at all impressed by low Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutesFinding perfection in our audiophile systems is a somewhat impossible, yet it is a worthy aspirational goal. Early in our journey, there are big improvements to be had without spending like madmen. Over time, as we move up the audiophile food chain, the cost for upgrades becomes more and more and the improvements are smaller Read More »

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter 22 years in Munich, Germany and after rising to the role of most important audiophile in the world (remember CES?), a move to Vienna had a lot of industry people scared. This is a harder to get to city. A smaller city with reportedly a lot less exhibit space thus many audiophile companies were 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 »