MBL-North America was showing their $259,000 “Combination D” at the New York Audio Show, and the crowd was very appreciative. Combo D is fronted by the 101E MkII Radialstrahler loudspeakers, the 1621A CD Transport, the 1611F D/A […]
Greg Beron of United Home Audio has been a fan and a supporter of PTA for far too long for his taste to not be questioned, but it’s his championing of two other brands that […]
Mytek I’ve been consistently pretty impressed with Mytek Digital‘s Stereo192 DSD DAC, so I was eager to try out their new Manhattan DAC headphone preamplifier ($4,995, $3,995 introductory price), their first DAC designed solely with […]
Audioengine Brett and Brady and Morgan were all on hand, showing off the upcoming Audioengine B1, a Bluetooth DAC that supports the latest AptX codecs for what seemed — to my ears at least — to […]
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis It is inconceivable, visiting the Hi End show in Munich and not visiting the MBL room. First of all, there is something like half a million good reasons ($) and just for […]
Getting a chance to write-up the MBL show presence is always a treat. Whether it’s completely superb, mind-blowingly good, or a hot mess of shrieking pain, MBL always, always, always leaves you with something to […]
If you’re into analog, you really ought to be into tape. It’s not that analog tape machines (necessarily) sound better than turntables, but rather that the tapes you can get these days sound so much better than […]
Saying that MBL makes audio equipment almost misses the point. Even in the rarefied air of audio’s high-end, MBL is something different again. Said another way, there are good speakers, there are great speakers, there […]
There are times in your life, when you look back on it, that you can point to where something actually definitive happened. “That was the day”, you’ll say to yourself because, let’s face it, by […]
United Home Audio had two systems setup in the large, mostly square room. The first was anchored firmly in MBL’s product line, something local dealer Greg Beron of United Home Audio really likes to show […]
You have to say this for mbl — they’re consistent. Here again is the $260,000 Combination D System I saw at AXPONA, again in that scrumptious white finish. Yum. I didn’t actually get to hear […]
$260k will buy you a lot of things. A house, perhaps. In some places, it’ll buy you a house — and a boat and a pair of cars. What it’ll buy at mbl America is […]
The United Home Audio room had some of the prettiest speakers I’ve ever seen. The mbl gear in white is definitely worth a look-see as I can’t think of a better speaker to photograph […]
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