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HIFIMAN, founded in China in 2007 by Dr. Fang Bian, has made quite a splash among audiophiles since its establishment. The company’s signature development has been high-quality planar magnetic headphones, which provide an open, detailed sound. Like planar magnetic speakers,… Read the Review »

European Audio Team, better known by the acronym E.A.T., is spearheaded by Ms. Jozefina Lichtenegger (herself married to Pro-Ject executive Heinz Lichtenegger), and principally builds turntables, tonearms, a tube-type amplifier and four different tubed phono preamplifiers. E.A.T. also markets three… Read the Review »

Today’s audiophile gear has gotten so good and so affordable that it is amazing. We talk a lot about Chi-Fi, but that is far from the end of the volume of top-performing audiophile gear in the market today. There are all sorts of… Read the Review »

Much like the FutureAudiophile.com crew, Linear Tube Audio’s team tends to attend the best regional audiophile shows all over the continent. Nicholas and his team are a fun-loving group of guys, and their audiophile-grade hotel room demos always sound notably… Read the Review »

For audiophiles, driving with music blasting from the speakers in our car audio system is a ritual that makes long commutes bearable and road trips legendary. Installed premium car audio systems have evolved significantly over the years, with upgraded components… Read the Review »

Infigo Audio is an exciting new player in the red-hot world of uber-high-end audiophile electronics. The Canada-based company has a long history in the audiophile industry, and it is coming to market with a full suite of electronics and cables… Read the Review »

Herford, Germany’s high-performance audio manufacturer T+A predominately operates under one guiding principle – “the appliance of science.” In fact, the T+A corporate name is an acronym for what the company enthusiastically describes as “theory and application.” With a staff of… Read the Review »

WiiM, part of Linkplay Technology, which started in 2014 with experience in streaming audio software and hardware to major audio companies like Harman, JBL, Yamaha, to name a few, has for a few years developed its product line of streaming… Read the Review »

A phono preamplifier is a great and often inexpensive way to improve the sound of your vinyl. While many integrated amplifiers and preamplifiers include a phono stage, they often struggle to match the sound of separated components for many reasons, but I suspect the biggest reason… Read the Review »

Anyone who has seen the 1997 feature film Boogie Nights (or lived through that times as an adult) knows that, for an American man in the 1970s, your masculinity was often significantly defined most by what car you drove. Muscle… Read the Review »

PSB is a high-quality, high-value audiophile loudspeaker manufacturer that recently celebrated its 50-year anniversary. Named after its founder, Paul Barton, PSB subscribes to the belief that speakers should look good, sound even better, and withstand the test of time. But… Read the Review »

I have enjoyed tubed audiophile preamplifiers for decades, but had never spent any time with gear from Vincent Audio until just recently, when my publisher asked me if I would be interested in reviewing a tubed preamplifier from Vincent Audio. I quickly… Read the Review »

Cambridge Audio is an audiophile electronics manufacturer with a lineage that dates back to the late 1960s. Cambridge Audio’s products today are as relevant as ever, including some really slick designs such as their sexy-as-hell, DeLorean-themed integrated amplifier. The Cambridge Audio… Read the Review »

British HiFi company Wharfedale has earned a strong reputation in the audiophile world since its inception in 1932, particularly for its innovation in loudspeaker design. Recently, the company has been revisiting some of its classic speaker designs, giving them modern… Read the Review »

It was pre-pandemic and I got an unexpected call from audiophile icon Dan D’Agostino, the founder of Krell and the impresario behind his namesake brand of uber-high-performance audiophile gear. He wanted to know if I still owned my 1997 Porsche… Read the Review »

A trusted source with inside information into the inner-workings of Best Buy and more specifically, Magnolia, has told FutureAudiophile.com that McIntosh electronics will no longer be sold in the national chain. Initially we learned that this more would not be an… Read the Review »

Infigo Audio is a relatively new, very high-end audiophile electronics manufacturer based in British Columbia, Canada. Hans Looman is the founder and head designer of Infigo products. He has ties that run back to Resonessence Labs, which was an offshoot… Read the Review »

Acoustique Quality is an Eastern European loudspeaker manufacturer known for its wide range of speakers, from the trapezoidal $1,200 Acoustique Quality Labrador 39 Bookshelf Speakers (read my review), to the hyper-futuristic flagship Passion Loudspeakers, priced at $22,000 per pair. While not yet a… Read the Review »

The audiophile hobby is on the verge of its first major demographic change since its inception back in the early 1960s. That might not be a popular or uplifting topic with some of the OG audiophiles, but it is a… Read the Review »

Few audiophile companies are as prolific today with the building of turntables as Pro-Ject. On their website, they list a staggering 13 different lines of turntables. That isn’t 13 different turntables – it’s 13 different product categories for the brand. This turntable… Read the Review »

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, and perhaps for five plus years before, there has been an unforeseen rise in the availability of uber-high-end audiophile equipment. By this, I mean really big, really powerful, really exotic and really expensive components, often costing… Read the Review »

Not many of us saw Bose buying McIntosh and Sonus faber (read about it here), but that recently happened, with the pundits saying it was a way for Bose to get further into the automotive space. That’s all well and good, but… Read the Review »

The idea that a really cool television shouldn’t be part of your stereo system is one of the worst cliches of the audiophile hobby. Let me get this right … I am supposed to not hang a gorgeous 65-inch UHD… Read the Review »

SPL is a German designer and manufacturer of professional recording and consumer high-end audio electronics, which caught the eye of our editor, Jerry Del Colliano, in his reviews of the SPLPerformer s1200 (read it here) stereo amplifier and Director MKII DAC/Preamp. Based in Niederkrüchten, Germany,… Read the Review »

Our chosen hobby essentially consists of two ways to listen to the music our carefully curated systems produce. We listen in two basic ways – firstly, for simple pleasure, and secondly, for sonic examination and evaluation. Everyone does the former;… Read the Review »

Schiit Audio has long been a value leader in the world of audiophile equipment, known for offering high-quality gear at very approachable price points. Founded in 2010 by Jason Stoddard and Mike Moffat, the company quickly carved out a niche… Read the Review »

It is not every day, or even every year, that Bowers & Wilkins launches a new Signature line. I remember going into audio stores in the early 1990s and seeing the unique-looking Silver Signature speakers, with their crossed silver bars… Read the Review »

Audiophiles will debate all sorts of topics with enthusiast passion, but one thing that most of us agree on is that your listening room is the most important component of your system. Some audiophile systems are lucky enough to be… Read the Review »

In the 10 years since I designed our basement audio room, the space has seen numerous components come and go, including stereo preamps, audiophile power amps, music streamers, DACs, equalizers, and subwoofers. What came and didn’t go is a pair… Read the Review »

HiFi Rose, a newer company in the high-end audio community but with 50 years of experience in touchscreen interfaces, has quickly become a leader in digital music players, and Class-D GaN FET amplifier design. HiFi Rose uses the term “network transport” when referring… Read the Review »

No one brand has impacted more audiophiles in their early years than NAD. For my fourteenth birthday, my Dad generously bought me a Nakamichi Music Bank CD changer, a pretty sweet NAD receiver, a pair of Polk floorstanding speakers, and some classic… Read the Review »

Most commonly, emails and notices start well before the show actually begins. Websites allow interested visitors to see what brands exhibitors demoing products will showcase. These same exhibitor lists allow consumers to expeditiously map out their favorite rooms and the… Read the Review »

MartinLogan gets more editorial and consumer attention for its hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers than it does for its subwoofers, which is a bit of a shame. The design resources that MartinLogan and its sibling brand, Paradigm, have available to them in… Read the Review »

Bryston Ltd. is a well-known and very well-respected Canadian audiophile electronics company based in Dwight, Ontario, a region of Canada far more famous for a relaxing summer life and great ice cream than a place that you might expect to… Read the Review »

Few audio companies have been around as long as ELAC, which has been manufacturing audio equipment for almost 100 years, and audiophile loudspeakers for over 40. Perhaps best known for their revolutionary JET folded ribbon tweeter, now on its sixth iteration, ELAC… Read the Review »

When the desire to upgrade a component becomes reality, audiophiles are faced with the burdening decision of how best to resolve the used component that the new joyous purchase will replace. One option is to simply trade it into the… Read the Review »

I remember my first trip to purchase my own stereo speakers like it was yesterday. It was 1989, and I had just passed my driver’s test. My Dad had won some points in a sales contest and allowed me to… Read the Review »

Bryston Ltd is a Canadian electronics firm that has been designing and manufacturing consumer and professional audio for the last 35 years, and is based out of the small town of Dwight, Ontario, here in Canada.  In their 35 years, Bryston… Read the Review »

There were two goals that I took on professionally in 2024 and, in an unprecedented outcome, I think that I have achieved them both as we come to the close of the year. The first one was to elevate my… Read the Review »