HiFi

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.

Good things come in threes.

Show buzz. No, I’m not talking about after hours at the hotel bar, but those rooms that have people saying, “Have you heard the ___ room?” Chicago-based dealer and distributor Musical Artisans put together one such room.

Another room from from Linear Tube Audio pushed more of my buttons.

Would you be surprised if I told you this system sang to me like an old friend?

Regular TM readers know I was very impressed with both speakers I reviewed from Perlisten—the S7t and R7t.