Looking Ahead From The Red Chair
A new year stretches out beyond our view yet I see a path filled with hope, music, and gear.
A new year stretches out beyond our view yet I see a path filled with hope, music, and gear.
This is the question I’ve been asked most often over the years—Is you Eames chair comfortable?
Michael, I was sorry to see your departure from AudioStream and it’s taken me quite a while to find you again. I’m also glad to see TM focussing on some other art/design areas as well as audio which is why I’m writing to you. Before […]
Making their world premier at High End Munich 2024 from Dynaudio (from left): the new Confidence 20A Active speaker, The Bookshelf, the Contour 20 Black Edition, and the Contour Legacy.
If you want to hear the best digital music reproduction I’ve heard by an obvious and distinct margin, you’ll need to find a Grimm MU2 to listen through.
Would you be surprised to learn that the Vivid GIYA G3 Series 2 loudspeakers sound like a larger version of the Vivid K 45 loudspeakers I reviewed back in July of 2023? Yet somehow even more than simply bigger?
The two most important factors in HiFi performance are system effects and environment.
The re-do. The reissue, the remaster, the hi-res, the immersive, the Better.
There are few things in hifi less obvious than a large horn-loaded speaker when it comes to setting expectations.
How much do we really know about a DAC we’ve never heard? The answer depends on who you ask.
I love a gift guide, especially one filled with delights that allow us to appreciate the communal creative souls within us all. I hope you find some wonder herein. Cheers.
I spent about 7 years reviewing just digital gear as Editor of AudioStream. Streamers, servers, DACs, software, and cables filled my days, nights, and nightmares with the ever elusive goal of making digital music sound like just music, minus the digital part.
The only thing I would change about the Audia Flight FL Three S, if I could change anything, is to have the volume knob stick out a bit more. Other than that, there’s nothing to criticize and everything to like. If not love.
It seems like just last month that Schiit hit us with two new products, because it was, and here were are looking at a trio of new Schiits—Skoll Phono Preamp, Midgard Headphone Amp, and Hel+ Gaming DAC/Amp.
On September 6, 1976 a Russian fighter pilot decided to defect by landing his MIG-25 in Hokkaido, Japan. One relevant discovery found inside that MIG was the Russian 6C33C-B dual triode vacuum tube.
Power isn’t everything.
One thing I know for sure—I need more records. Lots more records.
Sometimes up is up.
Back in high school I bought my first motorcycle, the agreement with my father being nothing over 350 cc so with the help of a mechanic friend, he found and I bought a lovely minty fresh green 1972 Honda CB350.
Fredrik Lejonklou is the man behind the company that bears his name and he’s got interesting ideas about hifi design, beginning with his stated goal: “I don’t really care whether it sounds ‘correct’ – I care about how it feels.”
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been having a recurring dream about finding a hidden room in whatever house I was living in.
I’m a fan of filling our lives with beauty and wonder (and kindness but that’s not something you can buy). Here are some things that may bring some sparkle to your day(s). Cheers.
I can imagine any number of audiophiles already ready to hit “Add to Cart”.
My hifi underground, yours may be a different one, spoke with a unified voice about the PrimaLuna EVO 300—“You have to hear this.”
If you have your ear to the ground, you’ll already have heard that the Q Acoustics Concept 50 Floorstanding Speakers are a Barn-storming bargain, offering fit & finish plus performance that’ll leave you wondering—how can they do this for that?
The LTA Z40+ incorporates David Berning’s patented ZOTL amplification for 51 Watts of transformer-less output power generated by four pentode tubes that peak out from the unit’s top plate.
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