Art&Culture
Five Favorite Things: Christopher Hildebrand
Five favorite things (outside of hifi) from Christopher Hildebrand, Fern & Roby, Tektonics Design Group.
Articles by Michael Lavorgna
HiFi Bargains
HiFi Bargains: Zu Audio Omen Dirty Weekend Mk.II
Every Spring, Summer, and Late Fall, Zu Audio runs their Omen Dirty Weekend sale wherein you can buy a pair of Zu speakers for $999. That, my friends, is a hifi bargain. The next Dirty Weekend begins July 2, 2019. Supplies are limited and they […]
HiFi Reviews
Review: Vinnie Rossi L2 Signature Preamplifer and L2 Signature Monoblock Amplifiers (Part 1)
Oftentimes, hifi gear that immediately impresses is not what you want. The same can be said for many things we encounter in life so we’re talking about common sense.
HiFi Thoughts
The Finite Capacity of Short-Term Memory or Why ABX Tests in HiFi Are Silly
Proponents of ABX testing in audio suggest, or insist depending on the person, that knowing what we are listening to when making comparisons makes any results invalid due to bias. In order to remove this perceptual bias, we must remove the knowledge of what we’re […]
Art&Culture
Five Favorite Things: John DeVore
Five favorite things (outside of hifi) from John DeVore, DeVore Fidelity:
HiFi Bargains
HiFi Bargains: Dynaudio Excite X14A Powered Speakers
Are you ever on the lookout for a hifi bargain? A real deal? A steal? From time to time just such beasts exist out there in the wild. You just have get a little adventurous and go on the hunt.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Celeste
Brighton soul singer Celeste rings my bell.
HiFi Thoughts
Computer Audio Is Dead. And Streaming Has Killed It.
Do you remember when computer audio was hard?
Art&Culture
Five Favorite Things: Stephen Mejias
Five favorite things (outside of hifi) from Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest Director of Communications:
HiFi Bargains
HiFi Bargains: The Tannoy Reveal 402 Active Monitors
Are you ever on the lookout for a hifi bargain? A real deal? A steal? From time to time just such beasts exist out there in the wild. You just have get a little adventurous and go on the hunt.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Rhye
It’s been going like this—play “Cellophane”, the crazy-lovely new single from FKA twigs, cue up Rhye’s Spirit EP next, sit back, and dream.
HiFi Thoughts
Random HiFi Thoughts
A hifi is a system where performance is the result of the combination of the things in that system. Not to mention the room it lives in.
Art&Culture
The New York Times: The Day the Music Burned
Building 6197, a 22,320-square-foot warehouse in Universal Studios Hollywood, housed 2,400 square feet lined with 18-foot-high storage shelves filled with master tapes owned by UMG. On June 1, 2008, Building 6197 went up in flames.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Vanatoo Transparent One Encore Powered Speakers
Most people want the same thing from a small speaker—big sound. Amar Bose went to some lengths in his Wave Radios to deliver on this promise but you can only twist the truth so far. The Wave Radio sounded like a big table radio. If […]
Art&Culture
The Magnum Square Print Sale
Hurry! Magnum Photo Collective’s Square Print Sale is happening now, but not for long—June 10, 8 a.m. EST to June 14, 11:59 p.m. EST.