The Bel Canto Black ACI 600 is what I like to call a full-function integrated amplifier seeing as it packs a DAC, MM/MC Phono Stage, Streamer, a headphone amp, and amplifier in one sleek package.
Lady Gaga’s latest single, “Abracadabra,” is being praised by fans and critics as “a return to form.”
Sometimes quiet intensity is called for. Sometimes it’s just the thing when so many other dashy flashy things are in dire need of our attention.
How’d they do this, for that?
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Pack up your swim trunks and sunscreen and get ready to HiFi!
Happy Valentine’s Day.
You may very well have come to the conclusion that common sense is no longer common.
Imagine two people standing in Skeleton Bay, Namibia where the Namib desert meets the Atlantic Ocean. The first is a tourist and surfer, the other a local Herero pastoralist taking a break from tending livestock.
TEAC’s new AP-507 Stereo Amplifier measures 11.5″ across, weighs in at 9.75lbs. and puts out 70 Watts into 8 Ohms. Can you guess one thing that’s inside?
“You should review big speakers. You have the room for it.”
In “Bluetooth Speakers Are Ruining Music,” The Atlantic’s Michael Owens takes an historical lens to our evolving relationship with music, notes the relatively recent tug-of-war between quality and convenience, and accurately identifies the audio industry’s enduring fixation with “fidelity.”
Tired of Tin Pan Alley? Ready to let Keith go? Drop your Jazz at the pawnshop?
Some integrated amplifiers seem to know better than others how to make the speakers they’re driving sound best.
I save and savor the music of Bob Marley like precious medicine.
Advance Paris was founded 1995 as Advance Acoustic, a speaker manufacturer, but in 2003 they shifted focus to electronics, changed their name, and the rest is living hifi history.
North Wales, PA-based MC Audiotech’s hifi roots reach back into other hifi companies including Impact Audio, Linaeum, and Veloce Audio.
Here’s the thing—when you go to hifi shows and dealer events, the best possible outcome is “I want to hear that! at home!”. To my mind, this is way better than any Best Of list which is the equivalent of picking a best film based […]
I had been hoping to avoid it forever, but I finally came down with covid. Coronavirus? Whatever’s it called these days. I had never had it.
I like every Bonnie “Prince” Billy record, even the bad ones.
Imagine a luxury ocean liner competing in America’s Cup. And winning.
My TAD memories go back, way back, to a CES past where I first heard their Compact Reference CR1 stand mounts and was even more excited about their sound than the fine single malt Japanese whiskey being poured in the TAD room. And that’s saying […]
In the mechanics of music reproduction, the only good vibrations are no vibrations.
There was a moment early in my infatuation with Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS when it occurred to me that I could be listening to [cue Beethoven’s Symphony No.5: dun-dun-dun DUNNNNN…] My Favorite Album of 2025.
What is Eusexua?
I’ll let you in on a little secret—while I have Favorites, within those favorites I have favorites.
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