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McIntosh Labs launch new MS500 Music Streamer and MCD600 SACD/CD Player

May 16, 2018 // 3 Comments

Binghamton, New York is a very busy place based on the number of announcements that come across my desk regarding McIntosh Labs product launches. The most recent salvo fired [...]

Munich High End 2018: The show that all shows want to be?

May 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

MUNICH. Have you seen the 2005 Academy Award® historical thriller by Steven Spielberg? If you haven’t let me just say it’s intense. I bring it up because if you [...]

AXPONA 2018: Wynn Audio – and interviews with Metronome, Kiso, Zensati, Thales

May 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

Wynn Wong of Wynn Audio out of Toronto, Ontario is always pushing the boundaries of high-fidelity preconceptions in some way or another. He likes to mix things up at audio [...]

Vinyl and CD sales top $1.5 billion, beating downloads in United States

March 24, 2018 // 4 Comments

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has crowned physical copies of music king of the US market for 2017 with a report just released showing that sales of [...]

A visit to Hawaii’s oldest record store: Hungry Ear Records

February 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

It was sun tan lotion, and fresh rain… no wait, tropical flowers. Errr, maybe a whiff of roasting meat on a BBQ mixed in too? This is what greeted my nose upon [...]

McIntosh MCT500: New flagship SACD/CD Transport launched

February 15, 2018 // 3 Comments

The hits keep coming from McIntosh Labs. Apparently the iconic American high-fidelity company can’t stop itself from launching new products, something you won’t [...]

The Lost Generation of Audiophiles

January 28, 2018 // 11 Comments

I admit, being a child of the 80’s does come with a few perks these days. As nostalgia for “the good old days” of my generation ramps up, more and more movie and TV [...]

RMAF 2017: Esoteric gets lush sound from new gear

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Veteran manufacturer Esoteric had not one, but two, major product introductions at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Reflecting general trends in the industry, one new piece of [...]

RMAF 2017: Nola Boxer S2 casts a long acoustic shadow

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

I’ve learned to allocate a little extra time when I see the Accent Speaker Technology Ltd. sign in the hallway at a show. Inside the room, I know I’m going to find a set [...]

RMAF 2017: Gryphon Audio delivers the big sound in Denver

October 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Big systems can be difficult to curate components for, especially ones where you have massive, multi-driver speaker arrays with complex crossovers that can soak up a lot of [...]