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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 [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: Devialet energizes with Bowers & Wilkins

April 28, 2018 // 1 Comment

Some think they’re beautiful, others feel they emulate what artificial intelligence will look like in the far future. I’m in the former camp, and have always [...]

AXPONA 2018: Stereo Haven lives up to it’s Name

April 20, 2018 // 2 Comments

Stereo Haven is probably one of the most aptly named bricks & mortar outfits out there. I came across it late in the afternoon Friday during the AXPONA weekend at a time [...]

AXPONA 2018: Sunday morning coming down

April 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

It was dark, and it was cold, and the faint morning light seeping through a crack in the curtains of my hotel room was grey, and did nothing to prompt me to throw them back, [...]

The Path of Shindo – A Journey through Japanese high fidelity

April 14, 2018 // 9 Comments

This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional this February in our Winter 2018 edition. We’ll be rolling out [...]

AXPONA 2018: Fern & Roby hit the ground running with Linear Tube Audio

April 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

I’ve had the opportunity to cover Christopher Hildebrand’s efforts several times in the past two years as he builds up his, bespoke high-fidelity brand Fern & [...]

AXPONA 2018 Advance: New venue, more gear, live music

April 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

There are a lot of ways to judge the significance and success of a hi-fi show — including the size of the venue, total attendance and number of exhibitors. By any of [...]

DVL Album of the Month for March: The Bee Gees

April 6, 2018 // 3 Comments

This is a monthly series of album reviews I will be doing for DVL Audio here in Canada. I’ll be heading out to a local record store in Vancouver, digging through [...]

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 [...]