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Today I’m joined by the owner and CEO of Audionet, Dr. Stefan Schwehr, Audionet’s Brand Director, my friend Jan Geschke, and a good friend who you’ve seen on the channel before, the North American Importer of Audionet, Bill Parish, of GTT Audio. Today we are talking about a new, remarkable cable riser, a product that... Read More »

It's taken me more time (years) to get serious about a new rack than any other component I've ever bought. My room and system have been so cooperative that for the past few years I've spent more time listening and looking for new music rather than fret about components, cables, room treatments, or a rack.... Read More »

Today marks the one-hundredth episode of my channel…and so many things have changed since its launch. Join me to celebrate what we’ve accomplished, and to see where things are headed over the next six months and beyond.

Today brings the fifth installment in my Heavy Rotation series, discussing two exceptional works, that are VERY different. Take a listen to what I have to share about them both.

Relished by many for their low cost, high quality audio components and accessories, iFi is renowned for enhancing sound quality and eradicating distortion, noise, and hiss from equipment like headphones, speakers, audio devices, cell phones, and televisions with their products. And, at a price of $329, the GO bar is their flagship pocket totable USB... Read More »

Ukranian pianist Anna Fedorova is a remarkable talent. She is right in the top of my list for outstanding performers in recent years. I've written about her solo-piano and chamber music recordings with Channel Classics here, here, and here. But now she is expanding her recorded repertoire to include some of the most challenging pieces... Read More »

Welcome to the reveal of my Fab Five, the five most accomplished, most musically engaging systems that I encountered at this year’s Capital Audiofest.

Introduction This review is a follow up to my earlier posting on the Aavik I-580 Integrated Amplifier. If interested, please click on the link here as it provides some very useful background information. Like the Aavik I-580, the Ansuz products discussed in this review are all part of the Audio Group Denmark portfolio. Audio Group... Read More »

Ye Olde Editor lighting one up, Happy Valley, OR, 2021 (Photograph and image processing by John Robinson) I've said it before, and I'll say it again:  Very few high-end audio products require (or deserve!) a The Brothers Karamazov treatment. Or Melville. Or Proust. Or Solzhenitsyn. Very few. And logorrhea is no virtue. Piles of hyperbole,... Read More »

Snoop Dogg and Dave Malekpour at Snoop Dogg's Beach City studio complex (photo courtesy of proaudiodesign.com) As a 36 year veteran of the professional music industry, founder and president of Professional Audio Design, Inc. David Malekpour has come a long way.  "I started working in pro audio for an acoustic designer and studio tech in... Read More »

GHOST is a Swedish band playing a genre of hard rock, formed in Linköping in 2006. In 2010 the band released its demo and then a complete album entitled Opus Eponymous. Since 2013, their album covers have been designed by the Polish graphic designer Zbigniew Bielak. We are reviewing the Japanese version of their latest... Read More »

Die Fabelwesen tauchten zuerst unter den Netzkabeln auf. Dann wurden sie bei den Lautsprecherkabeln gesichtet, und kürzlich spürte der Kollege Wolfgang Kemper einige Exemplare unter den HDMI-Kabeln auf. Die NF-Kabel-Varianten setzten Richard Drees, Sales Director für Deutschland, und Rob Hay, Marketing Director für Europa, direkt in meinem Hörraum aus.