Announcements

June 22, 2017 in Announcements // Black Sabbath announce The Ten Year War: Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set with MQA high-res
June 14, 2017 in Announcements // Audio Research Announces its First Ever Trade Up! Program
June 9, 2017 in Announcements // New PS Audio Huron upgrade for DirectStream and DirectStream Jr DACs; MQA and Tidal coming soon
June 8, 2017 in Announcements // Canada: A unique land of high fidelity
June 6, 2017 in Announcements // Element Acoustics to host Limited-Seating Accuphase Demo Event in Vancouver June 24th
June 6, 2017 in Announcements // Wilson Audio raises the bar with Alexia Series-2 loudspeaker
June 3, 2017 in Announcements // KEF Announces TIDAL Integration for KEF LS50W
May 26, 2017 in Announcements // HiFi Centre steps in to fill void as Vancouver Audio Show pulled from Chester Group website
May 23, 2017 in Announcements // Breaking News: Manchester Bombing
May 18, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: Pass Labs’ New XP-12 Preamp and XP-17 Phono Stage
May 18, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: Harbeth 40th Anniversary continues with new M30.2 loudspeaker
May 18, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: McIntosh Announces Two New Products
May 17, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: dCS celebrates their 30th Anniversary with the Limited Edition Vivaldi One
May 16, 2017 in Announcements // High End 2017: AURALiC announces high-end G Series streaming components
May 12, 2017 in Announcements // MQA update for AudioQuest Dragonfly Black and Red coming May 17 – new partnerships announced
May 8, 2017 in Announcements // Noble Audio X is back on Massdrop
May 1, 2017 in Announcements // Win a free SVS subwoofer!
April 22, 2017 in Announcements // OPPO Releases UDP-205 Audiophile Universal Player
April 20, 2017 in Announcements // MoFi Distribution takes on Dr. Feickert Analogue
April 17, 2017 in Announcements // Pass Labs launch new XA Series Class-A power amplifier

Articles by Rafe Arnott

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: The gear to lend an ear to really hear

With the inaugural Vancouver Audio Festival hosted by HiFi Centre happening this weekend, I thought I’d get the word out on what Igor Kivritsky, and his good people were curating in the suites of listening rooms lined up for Saturday, and [...]

Black Sabbath announce The Ten Year War: Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set with MQA high-res

Black Sabbath fans rejoice. BMG is tooling up for a September release of eight Sabbath LPs on 180-gram coloured vinyl that all have been re-mastered by Andy Pearce from the original tapes. Oh, and did I mention the wearable USB Crucifix that will be [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Elite Audio Systems create space with Viola Audio Labs, Kharma and Linn

Elite Audio Systems out of San Francisco, California created a very unique, and Zen-like listening space at the Los Angeles Audio Show. They had put up a large semi-transparent photographic background which transported you upon entering the [...]

Sound Room to host Simaudio and AudioQuest event Thursday June 22 in Vancouver

Mark Macdonald of The Sound Room in Vancouver, British Columbia (100-2025 West Broadway) shot an interesting note my way regarding a Simaudio 888 Power Amplifier event that he will be hosting this Thursday. Macdonald always puts on great [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: What’s coming up

Vancouver’s HiFi Centre is throwing open it’s doors this coming weekend (June 24, 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 433 Carrall Street, Vancouver) to help fill the gap left by the departure of the Chester Group, and it’s [...]

High End 2017: A High-Fidelity Photo Essay

The shock and awe of High End at Munich to someone who has not attended previously is palpable. This is the mother of all shows in my books, because to me it stands heads, and shoulders above so many others due to the inherent cultural, [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Austin Hifi spreads the joy with Crimson, Tocaro, Resolution Audio

Some rooms at audio shows are like old friends that you haven’t seen for a while. The Austin Hifi room at the Los Angeles Audio Show was like that. They have a habit of putting together similar systems (musical, simple, dynamic) at the shows [...]

High End 2017: TuneAudio, Trafomatic, Rockna, and Skogrand Cables stock the candy store

I felt like I was in candy store. Everything looked colourful, mouthwatering, and sugary… the sound was also drawing me into the sweet spot for an extended listening session. Another room of horn delights was having it’s way with me at [...]

Munich 2017: Nagra, Kronos, and Wilson make listeners see red

We’ve all heard the phrase, pictured it in our minds, or seen a commercial based on it. Like waving a red flag at a bull. That’s what the Nagra room in the 4.2 Atrium level of High End at Munich felt like when I walked into it. The [...]

LA Audio Show 2017: Gene Rubin Audio impresses with LFD, Harbeth, Acoustic Signature, Aurender, CanEver.

I don’t know about you, but I really appreciate hand built high-fidelity components. And when it comes to integrated amplifiers, few are more bespoke than what British amplifier manufacturer LFD are offering. While many of the most coveted [...]

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