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You've come a long way baby! First it was AXPONA turning 15; seven months later it's Capital Audiofest‘s turn. The last fifteen years seem to have just flown by. From CAF's very humble beginnings at the historic Glen View Mansion (Rockville, MD) in 2010 to the Crowne Plaza Hotel (Rockville, MD) in 2011 to a... Read More »

October, 2025 Friday 17 – Sunday 19 As I was driving towards the Toronto Airport Westin hotel on Saturday 18 October morning, my mind was wandering and I was thinking that mid-October 2025 feels like a surreal time in history. Everyone is venomously angry about anything and everything. Reasonable and rational discourse has been completely... Read More »

         The Capital Audiofest is an event more oriented around dealers than manufacturers. They take over a hotel in Rockville and set each of the hotel rooms up as listening rooms, and a person can wander from room to room listening to all of the different systems. Most of these systems are set up... Read More »

When I first started going to the AES show, it no longer was run by the first generation of audio enthusiasts who had started the show. You could still see Paul Klipsch in the hotel lobby yelling about amplifier distortion, and Norm Pickering and Les Paul could be seen out on the show floor, but... Read More »

Friday, October 17 Oct - Sunday, October 19, 2025 For the 2025 Toronto Audio Fest, (herein referred to as TAF 2025), I'm going to provide two – count 'em…two – show reports. There were a lot of exhibitors at TAF 2025. So much so, that it will be easier to bring greater clarity and insight... Read More »

I'll admit up front I had a limited amount of time to attend the show this year. I was only there on Friday for about four hours. In my defense I have, in between attending the show and taking the time to write this article, had some serious health issues resulting in recently having a... Read More »

HDTT has been hard at work once again with two very nice Redux re-releases in better sound quality and four new releases. Fans of Judy Garland will rejoice in this outstanding release of her live performance at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco from 1952. Amazingly, her voice sounds as if she is standing right... Read More »

I attend CanJam SoCal almost every year, and always thoroughly enjoy it. The overall vibe at CanJam is so different when compared to typical audiophile shows. First thing you notice is that there is always a much higher percentage of younger attendees (under 40) than you see at a show like T.H.E. Show. Also, you... Read More »

Audio Advice Live 2025 took place August 1-3, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel. I hadn't been to Raleigh in over sixteen years, and I have to admit—I honestly didn't recognize it at all, it's grown so very much! Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina and its second largest city;... Read More »

AXPONA, aka Audio Expo North America, was the vision of Steve Davis (his then store HiFi Farm was one of the first advertisers in my fledgling, late ‘nineties audio magazine Ultimate Audio magazine) and the late Andrew Spaulding, his close friend and audiobuddy. Steve speaks of his audiobuddy in very fond terms recalling Andrew as,... Read More »

T.H.E. Lone Star Audiofest 2025 ran the first weekend of May in Round Rock just outside Austin Texas. This eighteenth Lone Star Audiofest marked an important transition for the long running show changing from a volunteer run event to professional management. After the 2024 LSAF talks between LSAF founder Wayne Parham, T.H.E. Enterprises' Emiko E.... Read More »

Wow! It's been more than 15 years since I've been attending the Munich High-End Show and this year will be the last year it is to be held in Munich. But for now, that time of the year again! The 2025 Munich High-End Show has finally arrived. Farewell with a record turn-out of visitors from... Read More »

The impressive PS Audio room, boasting their latest, continues to be a crowd-pleasing fixture at AXPONA Despite current concerns regarding U.S. tariffs, this year's edition of AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) proved to be triumphant, bigger and better than its predecessors, boasting over 200 listening spaces on 12 floors representing over 700 global manufacturers, distributors,... Read More »

Lee Scoggins at the 2017 LA Audiophile Show. Los Angeles, CA, 2017 (portrait and image processing by David W. Robinson) It's hard not to love the Tampa show. Always great weather, and the people running the show, including Bart Andeer and team, really care about the experience people are having. This year the show moved... Read More »

New Beginnings, New Challenges This year's FIAE show (February 21-23, 2025) relocated to a new venue and sported a rather different touch and feel from previous show iterations. The new venue, the Sheraton Tampa Brandon, situated in a quieter suburban setting, largely delivered on the show organizer's promise of a vibrant, family-friendly experience, though not... Read More »

Here are more really great audio systems that I felt really had it going on at the Florida International Audio Expo 2025. There were an abundance of exhibitors at the show this year, but the rooms I chose to highlight are the ones that really spoke to me, were technologically sensational, or played music that... Read More »

The 2025 Florida International Audio Expo (FLAX) was new and improved this year, and the show took place at a new location, the Sheraton Tampa Brandon Hotel. The Sheraton offered a refreshingly new vibe compared to years past, and was strikingly more modern than the previous site, the Embassy Suites Westshore. It was a bit... Read More »

The Audio Engineering Society show has been going on for many, many years, and for a long time was the only audio engineering show in the world. Because of its history, it has a number of unique features that you won't find at NAMM or the Tonmeistertagung. It's split between a scientific conference with papers... Read More »

This show report by Frank Doris, a Senior Editor for Positive Feedback, and Editor of PS Audio's Copper Magazine, is republished from Copper. The 2024 AES (Audio Engineering Society) convention took place in the Javits Center in New York this past October, in conjunction with the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention, which focuses on television,... Read More »