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

Magnepan

LA Audio Show 2017: Inaugural event targets newcomers as well as hard-core hobbyists

If organizers of the Los Angeles Audio Show battled any jitters while planning their brand-new event in a very crowded year, those fears likely have eased in recent weeks. The LA show, scheduled for June 2-4 at the Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles [...]

“Affordable high-end” — is that like “jumbo shrimp”?

How many Simolians do you have to part with these days to get good sound? I mean, really? Is it even possible, or just a frustrating pipe dream? That seems to have been Topic A in 2016, continuing hot on the heels of the previous year and probably [...]

Newport 2016: Magnepan isn’t afraid of the dark

Many audio system demos take place in dimly-lit rooms. I think sales reps feel this adds some mystique to the gear being auditioned, and maybe allows the listener to better focus on the sound and create his or her own aural illusion. Often, there [...]

AXPONA 2016: exaSound finds synergy with Magnepan

This room got me going right out of the gate. The system used one of my all-time favorite speakers, the Magnepan 1.7s which I have lived with and loved for many years, using both solid state and tube electronics. Maggies work well with both. [...]

Music Matters 11: Audio Research, Magnepan , HRS, AMG

by Mohammed Samji Definitive Audio in Seattle, WA. The night before Music Matters, I had a chance to spend a little extra time in Room 3. As I entered the dim room, two gentlemen were sitting dead center, 2nd row, soaking up the sweet spot. Garth [...]

High End 2015: PS Audio, Magnepan, Roon

While not exactly new, PS Audio was showing off their pride-and-joy, the new Bascom King collaboration, the BHK Signature 250 Stereo amplifier ($7,499 US). The amp is a tube input (6922)/mosfet output “hybrid” design, good for 250 watts [...]

CES 2015: A long overdue wrap up

Before, after and during. That’s when I heave out the long sigh. An audio show — any audio show — wrings that out of me. But this year, CES was … different. Whinging For me, a show is equal parts work and play. I get out of [...]

Newport 2014: Magnepan Dots a Seven with the new MG

I’m going to come right out and say that I like Magnepan‘s Wendell Diller more than a little. He’s a damn fine fellow, opinionated as all hell, and pretty much a walking encyclopedia about the high-end audio industry. The fact that [...]

Magnepan and Tekton meet Pass Labs, Odyssey, Job, Merrill, Red Wine Audio, First Watt and Vitus Audio

November 27, 2013

Amplifier Madness Filed Under: Why The Hell Not. Wild hair? Yeah, maybe. Two over-achieving and “moderately priced” transducers fell into my Magical Hand of Loudspeakers — the Magnepan 3.7s and the Tekton Designs SEAS Pendragon [...]

CAF 2013: LKV Research

Bill Hutchins of LKV Research was showing off his new baby, the Phono 2-SB ($2,500). This Swiss Army knife phonostage has pretty much everything you could want, including both balanced (40/50/59dB) and unbalanced inputs (34/44/53dB). Not enough [...]

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