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The HIGH END Munich 2021 Show Dates Announced

September 28, 2020

The HIGH END Munich 2021 show dates are set: May 13 to May 16, 2021. And we’re talking about a real, in person show with nothing virtual about it.

HiFi Bargains: AudioQuest PowerQuest 3

September 27, 2020

Clean power is nothing to sneeze at.

Movies That Don’t Suck: Starring Dirk Bogarde

September 26, 2020

Dirk Bogarde, so-named by his agent, was a dashing leading man who ran from his cheesecake roles as soon as his contract with the Rank Organisation ended in 1960 to explore deeper, darker characters.

Album of the Week: Idles, Ultra Mono

September 25, 2020

The Idles have gone and done it — Ultra Mono is a record for the times, filled with rage, fury, fight, and compassion.

Review: totaldac d1-tube DAC/Streamer

September 24, 2020

Vincent Brient’s newest creation, the totaldac d1-tube DAC/Streamer, which falls on the lower end of the company’s price list, offers the benefits of being imbued with the totaldac house sound. For anyone who has heard […]

Sonus Faber Launches The New Exclusive Limited-Edition Il Cremonese Ex3Me

September 23, 2020

Named after Antonio Stradivari’s most revered Cremonese violin, the New Exclusive Limited-Edition Il Cremonese Ex3Me ($58,000) is limited to 50 pairs.

Review: totaldac d1-tube DAC/Streamer

HiFi Reviews

September 24, 2020

Review: Hegel H95 Integrated Amplifier

HiFi Reviews

September 10, 2020

The $2,000 H95 is Oslo-based Hegel Music Systems’ least expensive H series integrated amplifier. You could call it their entry level model, but that would be misleading.

Review: Linear Tube Audio MZ3

HiFi Reviews

July 30, 2019

I just dropped the Linear Tube Audio (LTA) MZ3 at our local UPS store. It’s hot (112, says The Weather Channel), so I rushed back home to the shady, cool listening space that is my […]

Review: Vinnie Rossi L2 Signature Preamplifer and L2 Signature Monoblock Amplifiers (Part 2)

HiFi Reviews

July 24, 2019

In Part 1 of our review of the Vinnie Rossi L2 Signature Preamplifer and L2 Signature Monoblock Amplifiers, we looked at and listened to the pre-power combo using the L2 Signature Preamplifer as just a […]

Review: Bluesound PULSE 2i Premium Wireless Multi-Room Music Streaming Speaker

HiFi Reviews

July 17, 2019

Big sound from a little box. Isn’t that everyone‘s dream?

Album of the Week: Idles, Ultra Mono

September 25, 2020

The Idles have gone and done it — Ultra Mono is a record for the times, filled with rage, fury, fight, and compassion.

Qobuz Live & Rhino Present: ‘John Coltrane – Giant Steps 60’: An All-Star Livestream Discussion

September 22, 2020

All-Star indeed as the panel doing the discussing includes saxophonists Archie Shepp(!!), Lakecia Benjamin, Shabaka Hutchings, and Melissa Aldana moderated by Ashley Kahn, author of two books on Coltrane, and Greg Tate, the Louis Armstrong […]

Album of the Week: H.C. McEntire, Eno Axis

September 18, 2020

The river Eno runs through North Carolina, past H.C McEntire’s home, and right through the heart of Eno Axis.

The Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith: The Perfect Vision Trilogy

September 15, 2020

Of the books I kept, some of the most sacred are those by Arthur Rimbaud, Antonin Artaud, and René Daumal. The Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith have released a trio of albums dedicated to each, […]

Album of the Week: Bill Callahan, Gold Record

September 11, 2020

“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” so begins Bill Callahan’s Gold Record.

Album of the Week: Kelly Lee Owens, Inner Song

September 4, 2020

Kelly Lee Owns second album, Inner Song, is a sonic smorgasbord of delight.

Album of the Week: Angel Olsen, Whole New Mess

August 28, 2020

Angel Olsen, electric guitar, and an occasional organ in a repurposed church turned recording studio on the coast in the Pacific Northwest. If all that sounds too good to be true, it is but it […]

Album of the Week: Duval Timothy

August 21, 2020

Multidisciplinary artist and pianist Duval Timothy mixes up a world of influence into his new record Help, creating a stirring soul-fed soundworld that defies genrefication offering up the possibility to feel, heal, and learn.

Album of the Week: Lankum

August 14, 2020

Dublin-based 4-piece Lankum’s latest album The Livelong Day, released in October of 2019 on Rough Trade Records, is a powerful, stunning, and moving mix of the old and new.

Movies That Don’t Suck: Starring Dirk Bogarde

September 26, 2020

Dirk Bogarde, so-named by his agent, was a dashing leading man who ran from his cheesecake roles as soon as his contract with the Rank Organisation ended in 1960 to explore deeper, darker characters.