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How to Stop Worrying and Soundproof Your Audiophile Listening Room
So there you are, all primed and ready for a true audiophile experience with your bad-to-the-bone stereo system – the one you’ve spent months/years/decades researching, curating, purchasing, and setting up. You select the music, press play, and wow, doesn’t it… Read the Review »
Four Good Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Audiophile Hobby in 2023
Much lip service has been given to the failing health of the audiophile hobby, and with the demographics looking about as close as you can get to 100 percent male and a median age of well over 55, who could… Read the Review »
AXPONA Adds A Live Concert For Friday Night Featuring Jazz Artist, Anne Bisson
AXPONA attendees year after year look forward to the live concert series on Friday and Saturday evenings. This year, AXPONA will welcome Anne Bisson, Canadian Jazz Singer-Songwriter who will be taking the stage to close the first day of AXPONA, bringing with… Read the Review »
Your Next Stereo Store Visit Might Not Be Anything Like What We Knew From The Past
Call me what you want… publisher, editor, entrepreneur, schmuck or just Hey You and I likely will respond quickly and with a smile. Despite running my own publishing business for nearly all of 25 years, I still pretty much consider… Read the Review »
MartinLogan Introduces Motion and Motion XT Audiophile Speakers
MartinLogan, the leader in high-performance loudspeakers, is excited to announce the release of not one but two new product lines, the Motion and the Motion XT. This premium collection of loudspeakers has been completely reimagined with a fresh attitude, sleek… Read the Review »
Why You Never Need to Impress Anybody with Your Audio System
Watching the Internet come to life as a commercial entity in the 1990s, when I was in music/business school, was most eye opening. From the time that I got to South Central Los Angeles to celebrate the pending West Coast… Read the Review »
NAD Announces CS1 Endpoint Network Streamer For $499
Employing audiophile-grade components, the NAD CS1 (read the review) can play high-resolution audio up to 24-bit/192kHz. It features Bluetooth, Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi and supports the most popular streaming and casting protocols, including Apple AirPlay 2, GoogleCast, Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect… Read the Review »
BluOS Announces 4.0 Mobile Application Update
BluOS, the premium multi-room music management platform by Lenbrook International, announces a new and improved BluOS 4.0 update to its mobile application platform. A preview demonstration of BluOS 4.0 will take place at the Integrated Systems Europe conference in Barcelona,… Read the Review »
Is Break-In a Thing Science-Based Audiophiles Should Take Seriously?
Two weeks ago, I was on the phone with a public relations executive I hadn’t spoken with in a few years. Frank currently represents PS Audio, Audio-Technica and a few other audiophile brands and he was confirming that he had… Read the Review »
Ansuz Introduces Mainz8 Generation 3 High End Audiophile Power Product
Ansuz has made quantum leaps in the development and design of innovative and unconventional audio technologies that have revolutionized the quality standards of high-end music reproduction. High time, then, to integrate all these groundbreaking advances into a new series of … Read the Review »
Revising the Conundrum of And/Or When Buying Audiophile Components
Things have changed quite a bit in the audiophile world as compared with just a few years ago when I left the business to try my hand at being an executive at a publicly traded Fortune 500 company. The pink… Read the Review »
Tampa Audiophile Show Is Sold Out For Exhibits But Not Tickets
The Florida International Audio Expo takes place Friday–Sunday, February 17–19, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Tampa Airport Westshore. The sold-out show will be the biggest yet, with more than 77 exhibit spaces delivering plenty of action—several exhibitors will unveil new… Read the Review »
How A Motivated Millennial Music Lover Found a Highly Lucrative Career in the Audiophile Business Straight Out of College
Greensboro is much like any other mid-sized, sleepy college town in the Southeast. Home to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), part of a statewide system that quite surprisingly encompasses 17 colleges, universities, and institutions of higher learning,… Read the Review »
PS Audio Is Now Shipping Their Flagship $7,999 PerfectWave DirectStream DAC MK2
PS Audio is now shipping its PS Audio PerfectWave DirectStream DAC MK2 (read the review), successor to the acclaimed original version. The DirectStream DAC MK2 incorporates a host of newly-developed PS Audio technologies to deliver a new level of sonic performance in digital… Read the Review »
Bricasti Design Launches the M1 Series II Dual Mono Converter
Bricasti Design just launched the newly engineered Bricasti M1 Series II (read the review) dual mono digital to analog converter. Bricasti M1 v2 DAC dressed in silver The M1 Series II introduces a new look and feel to the M1 series… Read the Review »
Naim’s New Classic Range of Audiophile Electronics
Naim is out with their New Classic range of electronics including the NSC 222 streaming pre-amplifier; an all-new iteration of the iconic NAP 250 power amplifier; and the NPX 300 power supply upgrade. Each boasts more features – including balanced… Read the Review »
CES Might Be Dead to Audiophiles Now, But It Was Fear of Illness That Poisoned the Well Long Before COVID-19
When I was 19 years old, I remember literally begging my boss, Christopher Hansen, to go to CES in early 1994. I was off from college, and back then the show was the Super Bowl of all things audio. What… Read the Review »
Five Low-Cost/No-Cost Audiophile Hacks That Actually Work
Acoustician Bob Hodas, who has tuned and pretty much every good recording studio—from Sony Music and Electric Lady Studios to Van Halen’s 5150 and so many more—also works with enlightened audiophiles seeking real-world, non-voodoo tuning of their rooms. This can mean… Read the Review »
The Problem with Best Buy
One of the advantages of living in a big city is all of the access to various services, products, and experiences. Being a resident of a major metropolis gives you access to cultural, medical, culinary, and—in the case of the… Read the Review »
Parasound Sold To New Owners on December 8, 2022
Richard Schram, who founded the audio equipment brand Parasound in 1981, has announced his retirement and the sale of his company to David Sheriff, an entrepreneur active in product growth and supply-chain management. Parasound manufactures audiophile-grade amplifiers and other components… Read the Review »
A Local High End Running Shoe Store Ran Out Of Customers Because of Poor Inventory Policies
One of my stated goals as a consumer is to support local retailers. Sure, I buy my fair share of crap from Amazon.com just like everybody else but when possible, I try to shop local. One store that I used… Read the Review »
Maybe We Need an Audiophile Gear Recycling Program to Kickstart New Industry Growth?
You want to know why I’d rather be a high-end sports car dealer than an audiophile store owner these days? More often than not, high-end cars, over time, wear out or get old. People wreck them more frequently than you’d… Read the Review »
The Alpha iQ Streaming Speakers with BluOS are Now Shipping
PSB Speakers, makers of high-fidelity loudspeakers since 1972, just announced the retail availability of the Alpha iQ, Streaming Powered Speakers with BluOS, the brand’s first pair of wireless streaming bookshelf speakers that integrate control, source and amplification. The Alpha iQ… Read the Review »
Rotel Launches Its First Integrated Streamer Component
Rotel just introduced its S14 Integrated Streamer offering discerning listeners a high-performance product to access and enjoy online music with ease. This solution delivers the family-owned audio company’s promise of quality, value, and performance, aiming to bring music to life… Read the Review »
McIntosh Releases New Wall of Sound Grateful Dead T-shirt and Sweatshirts For The Holidays
The two music icons came together in 1974 when the Grateful Dead unveiled their famed “Wall of Sound” at the San Francisco Cow Palace. The most unique traveling concert sound system in history, the system was 100+ feet wide and… Read the Review »
In the Audiophile World, Higher Price Doesn’t Always Equal Higher Performance
One of the biggest audiophile fallacies is a pricier or more exclusive product is going to perform better than a more affordable or mass-market solution. Perhaps that was once the case, but new-school audiophiles are increasing supporting manufacturers who deliver… Read the Review »
Does Inflation Always Makes Audiophile Products Cost More? Not Always… Here’s How to Cope
If you have a pair of ears, or even only one functioning ear, it’s impossible to avoid the “I” word these days. Most of the inflation news today is bad, and that makes sense as bad news creates media-based user… Read the Review »
Aavik Launches Their New Flagship 880 Series of Amplifiers
Aavik announced today that it has expanded its range of amplifiers with their new flagship Aavik 880 series. The new series consists of the Aavik I-880 integrated amplifier, the C-880 control amplifier, and the P-880 power amplifier. The primary development… Read the Review »
Monoprice Finally Launches Low-cost Audition Speakers to its Monolith Line
Monolith, Monolith, the high-end audio brand from Monoprice, just announced its Audition series speaker solutions. The Audition speakers will be available in bookshelf, center-channel and two tower configurations. “Our new Audition Series speakers bring extremely-high quality sound to a new level… Read the Review »
Andover Audio Launches SpinStage Phono Preamp For $249
Andover Audio just announced the launch of its new SoundBites Series with the first model, the Andover Audio SpinStage phono preamp (read the review here MSRP $249). Making an elegant style statement in a striking clear finish of bead-blasted, anodized aluminum, this… Read the Review »
McIntosh Introduces New MDA200 DAC for $4,000
McIntosh just announced the MDA200 D/A Converter, allowing audiophiles to add premium digital music capabilities to an analog audio system. At the heart of the MDA200 is the McIntosh DA2 Digital Audio Module featured in the award-winning MA12000 Integrated Amplifier… Read the Review »
How Chi-Fi Is Re-Energizing the Audiophile Hobby
Recently, I’ve been asking audiophile industry executives what they think of Chi-Fi or “Chinese Hi-Fi (aka: audiophile components made in China, sold directly to clients all over the world at often hard-to-conceive-of prices). It has been notable how many were… Read the Review »
MoFi Electronics Launches New Andrew Jones Loudspeaker Design Called the SourcePoint 10
Mobile Fidelity Source Point 10 Speakers by Andrew Jones MoFi Electronics introduced its new MoFi SourcePoint 10 loudspeakers (read a review of the Source Point 8 here) at Capital Audiofest in Rockville, MD, U.S.A., running November 11 through November 13.… Read the Review »
Schiit Releases New-Upgradable Reference Multi-bit DAC – the Yggdrasil
Schiit Audio announced the immediate availability of Yggdrasil+, its flagship True Multibit DAC. Featuring a choice of audiophile D/A converter options, remote control, NOS mode, and phase inversion, the Yggdrasil+ offers exceptional performance and value in a high-end DAC, together… Read the Review »
Audio-Technica Announces the Release of Its ATH-TWX9 Wireless In-ear Headphones For $299
Audio-Technica announced the release of its ATH-TWX9 truly wireless in-ear headphones with digital hybrid noise-cancelling technology. Featuring 5.8mm high resolution drivers, these earbuds deliver an extended high-frequency range and improved sound detail for a superior listening experience. With up to 6 hours… Read the Review »
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy Vinyl for What It Is
Some audiophiles read my articles and think I absolutely hate vinyl. I don’t at all. In fact, I have been thinking of adding a turntable to my ever-evolving living room music playback system. The issue with vinyl is that we… Read the Review »
Capital Audiofest Starts On Friday November 11 – Tickets and Rooms Still Available
With COVID not looming as large as it has for the past few years and Rocky Mountain Audiofest in Denver now ended forever, Capital Audiofest in Rockville, Maryland represents the best chance for audiophiles from around the country to experience… Read the Review »
Periodic Audio Drops IEM Prices Before Black Friday
Periodic Audio announces a price reduction for its line of V3 in-ear monitors launched earlier this year. The company will move to a direct model and as a result will pass distribution cost-savings to its loyal customers. “We feel so… Read the Review »
SVS Launches Their Gen-2 $699 Prime Wireless Soundbase
SVS, manufacturer of high-performance speakers, subwoofers, wireless audio, cables, and accessories, proudly announces the SVS Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase (read the review here). It’s the company’s second-generation integrated stereo amplifier bringing audiophile sound quality to the wireless audio space with high-resolution… Read the Review »
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