HiFi Bargains

When a product sticks in my mind, remembered like a great film or vacation, telling memorable stories of music reproduction coupled with a price that belies its staying power, you know we’re talking about a verified HiFi Bargain.

The diminutive and delicious Helm BOLT DAC recently worked itself onto my short list of Favorite DACs. If we add its $99.99 asking price into the equation, we come up with a verified HiFi Bargain.

You’ve got to spend money to save money.

Imagine your long lost great Uncle Bud passed away and bequeathed unto you his 2-million album music library.

I’ve heard plenty of Wharfdale speakers, certainly enough to know their warm and rich house sound.

Sometimes we need not look beyond our desktop to find a HiFi Bargain.

Clean power is nothing to sneeze at.

Vintage HiFi can be a veritable goldmine of HiFi Bargains. It can also be a minefield of mediocrity.

I purchased the fully-assembled SACThailand Minute EL84 Integrated Amplifier back in 2006 for $325 (it was also available in kit form for $295) pegging its 14-year use cost at around $28/year. That, my friends, is a HiFi Bargain.

Parasound goes about the business of making some great hifi products for great prices kinda on the quiet side, don’t you think?

My O My, what 134 dollars can buy…

The Rega P3/RB300 combo (also called the ‘P3 2000’) is about as classic a HiFi Bargain as they come. So says Captain Obvious.

Streaming is, without question, one of the major advances in music listening. Costing anywhere from free to around 20 bucks/month, a huge chunk of the big wide wonderful world of recorded music can be delivered directly to your ears. That’s a game-changer if ever there […]

In the beginning, there was Black. Then Black v1.5, followed by Red. Well, there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Cobalt. DragonFly Cobalt.

1962. nineteen sixty freakin’ two. That’s when the world was introduced to the mighty & magical Denon 103 Moving Coil Cartridge.