I first heard the Consonance Compact Monitor ($1680/pair) at AXPONA 2025. I called the room—Mike Stephens's Western HiFi of Farmersville, Texas—"one of the ... top five systems at AXPONA." ...

When we first took an interest in reviewing the T+A elektroakustik A 3100 HV Reference fully balanced dual-mono solid state stereo power amplifier ($29,900), every existing unit had been earmarked for ...

Herb Senior raised me to be a wrench twirler. A problem solver. A mechanic. Not an intellectual. Or an artist. Following his example, I've devoted my life to measuring, cutting, and fastening. To ...

I first heard the Consonance Compact Monitor ($1680/pair) at AXPONA 2025. I called the room—Mike Stephens's Western HiFi of Farmersville, Texas—"one of the ... top five systems at AXPONA." ...

The late Jonathan Tinn of Blue Light Audio, importer of darTZeel electronics and a partner in Playback Designs with DSD expert Andreas Koch, loved vinyl. He approached Wave Kinetics' Matt Schuster and ...

I heard my first genuinely awesome hi-fi through a pair of Tannoy speakers. The 15" Monitor Blacks were installed in wardrobe-sized Siemens cabinets that the owner had wrangled from a decommissioned ...

Launched in 1967, Quad's highly original, elegantly styled 33 preamplifier and 303 power amplifier were Quad's first all solid state designs and among the first solid state separates. The 303 may have ...

Here's a hard truth: A written review of a full-sized speaker—any speaker, really—is, at best, semi-useful. We all listen differently, we have different musical tastes, our system electronics are ...

Description: Music streamer, DAC, preamp with 6" LCD touchscreen, onboard parametric EQ, virtual VU meters, dedicated control app, AK4191EQ delta-sigma modulator, AK4499EX D/A converter, and the XMOS ...

I performed a full set of measurements on two samples of the Benchmark AHB2 (serial nos. 14440108-0 and 14440111-0), using my Audio Precision SYS2722 system (see the January 2008 "As We See It"), and ...

Playlists embody who we are. We use musical affinities to understand (or at least categorize) others, not only as evidence of their aesthetic discernment but also of their emotional and political ...

KEF's LS50 loudspeaker was introduced in 2012 to celebrate the English manufacturer's 50th anniversary. Usually, anniversary models are large, floorstanding "statement" designs with a price to match, ...