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My father owned a pair of B&W Matrix 801 speakers. He loved them, like they were alive.

That’s right folks, Axpona has pulled the plug on their October 29-31, 2021 dates and moved them to April 22-24, 2022. We don’t have to ask why.

Swedish high-end loudspeaker company Marten has teamed up with IsoAcoustics to develop the new Marten Isolators, upgraded footers that now come standard on Marten’s Coltrane series, Mingus Orchestra, and Parker series.

The new Peachtree GaN400 Power Amplifier employs GaNFETs (Gallium Nitride Field-Effect Transistors) for generating its 400 Watts of output power. Why GaNFETs you ask?

Imagine you need a 2M pair of speaker cables, a 1M pair of interconnects, and two 1.25M power cords. If you choose Nordost’s new Odin Gold, we’re talking about $189k worth of cables, before tax.

How much luxury is too much?

I enjoy a good celebration.

What makes a HiFi show good? In addition to location, the thing that makes a HiFi show a good one is its organizers, and AudioConLA promises to be good if not better, thanks to Sarah Tremblay and Michel Plante, the dynamic duo behind Montreal Audiofest […]

Is it too soon? I don’t think so. It has been 2 years since my last hifi show and I am itchin’ to attend.

I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall.

Notice I didn’t say “Best DACs.” There’s a big difference between a favorite and a best, as big a difference as there is between night and day.

There’s a relative dearth of affordable streamers that offer USB out. iFi’s new Zen Stream Wi-Fi Audio Transport does USB and S/PDIF out, and in between the WiFi and wired inputs there’s a host of iFi tech meant to improve the sound of your digital […]

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love” according to Hal David and Burt Bacharach. They forgot to mention — and another dongle DAC.

Naim Audio was officially incorporated in 1973 and their Aro tonearm is the stuff of audiophile legend. But that’s about as far as the Salisbury, England based company ever went in terms of playing records. Until now.

The AKM factory fire that occurred on October 20, 2020 at the company’s semiconductor plant in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan, has sent many an audio manufacturer back to the drawing board.