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Were you, like me, unable to attend the Munich show this year? Would you still like to get a taste? Whet your beak in the sounds and rooms of High End?

UK’s dCS, makers of some of the finest digital gear I’ve had the pleasure to hear, have shifted sales model gears with their new Lina System, aimed squarely at the headphone Buy It Now crowd.

If you want power in your pocket, if you need power in your pocket, iFi’s new GO bar portable USB DAC/headphone amp may be your lucky charm. Pictured is iFi’s 10th Anniversary Limited Edition GO bar that brings along the bling.

The press releases are pouring in for new product releases making their debut at Munich High End 2022. Here are a few highlights.

High End Munich 2022, the show of hifi shows, opens Thursday. I’ll be in the woods of western NJ, tending to the bear, the bees, and the Barn.

The KEF LS50 may be the easiest active speaker to recommend.

As a reviewer of hifi gear, I have an unquenchable thirst for the new. If I didn’t, this would be a terrible job but as it stands, I thank my fortunate stars most days because I look forward to getting into the Barn and getting […]

I join John Darko, once again, to chat and this time we go on about my recent experience at Axpona 2022, focusing on a few favorites, and Darko’s thoughts on, and products of interest on exhibit at, the upcoming High End Munich 2022 show.

Bluesound, makers of very good sounding affordable network-capable gear, have announced the HUB that turns old school audio sources into network and multi-room ready devices on any Bluesound network.

Chord’s industrial designs always bring to mind Captain Nemo, and that’s a good thing as the looks of many a piece of hifi gear bring to mind not much of anything except yet another sample in a long line of generic looking hifi. Yawn.