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Audience aR2p Adept Response Power Conditioner Sweepstakes
Register to win an Audience aR2p Adept Response Power Conditioner (MSRP $695) we are giving away. According to Audience: The Audience...
Innovative Audio Presents the Lamm LP1 Signature Phono Preamp
On Wednesday January 29th, 2013, Innovative Audio Video Showrooms hosted the NYC premier of the Lamm LP1 Signature phono preamplifier ($32,790)....
Music? Or Sound?
The demo seemed simple enough. A distributor proposed a session for the Bay Area Audiophile Society (BAAS) that would pit his relatively low-cost...
AudioQuest in Alabama
I'm always happy to hear about audiophiles in Alabama. Here's Steve Gibson of Killen, Alabama. For some reason, there seems to be a reserve of...
MtnBeachBum's Beach Boys Birthday Bash
You would think that Stereophile.com user MtnBeachBum created his username to gain a winning edge in the Beach Boys box set sweepstakes, but...
Catch These NYC Concerts If You Can!
Photo courtesy the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra I certainly am no stranger to the idea that a "student" orchestra can turn in a performance...
"This is exciting," says Thiel's new CEO, Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas at CES with the ground-breaking coaxial HF/MF unit designed by Jim Thiel (Photo: John Atkinson) We reported last November...
2012 Records To Die For
At a time in history when the music business seems less interested in making anything of lasting value than in churning out disposable music—hits...
Relax, Listen, and Learn
Because it's rad. I found this over at Mark Betcher's "Unearthed in the Atomic Attic" blog, where you can actually hear the album's entire second...
Long Live High-End Audio
While we contemplate high-end audio’s long, slow, and stinking death, Magico, makers of high-performance, high-priced loudspeakers, is in the mainstream...
Buy Music, Get Hi-fi at In Living Stereo
There was a time not too long ago when my favorite NYC hi-fi dealer lived side-by-side with my favorite NYC record shop: In Living Stereo occupied...
R.I.P High-End Audio?
Slowly, painfully, high-end audio seems to be dying. We all know it but we're apparently unable to resuscitate the patient. US dealers are closing...
Scott and Pat, Inked Together Forever
Congratulations to Scott Leslie of Portland, Connecticut winner of the Pat Metheny The Orchestrion Project Blu-ray Sweepstakes. Robert Baird named...
Fela Kuti Box Set Compiled by Ginger Baker from Turntable Lab Sweepstakes
Register to win the Fela Kuti Box Set Compiled by Ginger Baker from Turntable Lab (MSRP $99) we are giving away. According to Turntable Lab: ...
Another Year, Another CES
Photograph: John Atkinson Las Vegas? Why bother to fly across the country or around the world when you can visit New York City, Venice’s...
And That Was the End of the 2013 CES
And then there were five. At the end of the show on Friday evening, the remaining members of the Stereophile crew met for dinner at the dame BLT...
Music Hall: Hi-fi for Everyone
Earlier in this show report, I mentioned that the excellent music played in Jeffrey Catalano’s High Water Sound room served as a reminder of my...
Bladelius Mimer Music Server
Two of the products I most wanted to see in the flesh at the show didn't actually arrive due to the exhibirt's respective shipping services. The...
My Epiphany: Pass Labs, Sony, Kimber, and DSD Files
For the first time in many years, I walked into a room at CES and was immediately blown away. Pass Labs personnel had suggested I listen to the amplifiers...
Soundmatters' Sound Matters
Promoted as "the first pocket-sized portable speaker good enough for the audio purist,” the Soundmatters FoxLv2 has had endorsements from renowned...
Crystal's SAGA amplifier
The Arabesque speakers ($90,000/pair) in the Crystal room, with their glass enclosures, were familiar, as were the Crystal cables that Jason Serinus...
JosephAudio's Pearl3
Jeff Joseph was demming his new Pearl3 floorstanding speakers ($28,100/pair) in an all Bel Canto system (including their new USB converters), hooked...
Magico's Mighty Q7
Larry Greenhill, who was covering expensive amplification at CES for Stereophile already blogged about the Constellation preamp and power amplifiers...
Magico's Two-Way S1
At every CES, I seem to find out on the last day that there was something I should have checked out. And, sure enough, on Friday afternoon, I’m talking...
T+A Criterion loudspeakers
T+A (Theory and Application) is a German audio company best known in North America for their electronics and source components, not their speakers....
A Less-Expensive Django from Marten
Erick Lichte was very impressed with the Marten Django XL loudspeaker when he reviewed it last September. The three-way Django costs $15,000/pair,...
MartinLogan's CLX
Listening to the big MartinLogan CLX full-range electrostatics ($25,495/pair) at the June 2012 Newport Beach Show had been a high point for me,...
PTE Goes Active
Active speakers— ie, those that that have built-in amplifiers—are generally unpopular with audiophiles. One well-known speaker designer working...
Moving Music from High Water Sound
Over the last several years, whenever I’ve run into High Water Sound’s Jeffrey Catalano at a show, he reminds me that I have an invitation to visit...
Chord Chordette QuteHD USB DSD DAC
Small and definitely cute, the new Chord DAC has SPDIF and USB inputs and unbalanced analog outputs. Priced at $1,795 and available now, the QuteHD...
Musical Fidelity M1SDAC DAC/Pre
Musical Fidelity had a large multi-room suite atop the Mirage, with multiple systems set up and optimized. One system was set up around the new M1SDAC...
Vandersteen's New . . . Amplifier
My photograph doesn't do justice to the lustrous blue finish or the immaculate interior construction, but Vandersteen's new M7-HPA power amplifier...
Audio Arts & the Zellaton Grand
Manhattan retailer/distributor Audio Arts was showing the Zellaton Grand loudspeaker ($39,750/pair). This combines a tweeter and two 7" mid-woofers...
Totem's on Fire
Have you ever attended one of those speaker demos where a large pair of floorstanding speakers were supposedly playing, and then it was revealed...
