Year: 2022

The Mytek Empire has arrived.

I’ve been following Jacob George’s Rethm speakers for many years with great interest. His new Aarka Active Speakers strike me as a very big step in a great new direction.

UK’s Audio Note has the show thing down.

Constellation Audio and Magico are one of hifi’s famous couples.

Moon by Simaudio and Wilson filled another of the larger rooms at Axpona 2022 with sweet sweet music.

Innuos hosted the YG Acoustics Active Vantage Live System that incorporates high tech from Cambridge Acoustic Sciences and Bel Canto Design in the Vantage Live’s advanced DSP crossover and bespoke amplification/controller respectively.

No HiFi show would be complete without a visit with MBL. MBL systems do not look like any other hifi nor do they sound like any other hifi.

Big room, big speakers + lots of power = hifi fun.

ELAC switched things up at Axpona 2022 by showcasing their pricier Concentro S 507 Tower Speakers ($7499.98/each).

I am a fan of Germany’s Manger Audio and said so in my review of their S1 Active Speakers.

Speaking of simple…

Canada’s Muraudio marches to the beat of a different drummer.

There’s much to be said for simple.

NYC-based distributor/dealer Jeff Catalano of High Water Sound uses hifi to better appreciate music. While you might think, who doesn’t?, my experience suggests this simple equation can get lost in the sauce especially at hifi shows where you’d think Stevie Ray Vaughan was the official […]

Oslo, Norway’s Hegel make amplification products—pre, power, and integrateds—that are visually understated, reasonably priced, and very good sounding.