Roger Skoff of RSX Technologies at the LAOC Gala, 2023 (portrait and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger Skoff writes about doing the right things the wrong way You wouldn't do that, would you—eat soup with a fork? Or paint your house with a Q-tip cotton swab? Or run a cement mixer in a... Read More »
--Limited Edition Turntable Sure to Wow in Nirvana A Room-- Schaumberg, IL, 12 April 2024: J.Sikora Turntables, designer and manufacturer of some of the finest turntables in the world, proudly announces the worldwide premiere of their 15th Anniversary Edition of the Standard MAX turntable today at AXPONA 2024. Notable Audio Products, J.Sikora’s US Distributor, will... Read More »
“Great Sound – No Nonsense” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Holland, MI – Studio Electric is pleased to partner with Benchmark Media in creating an AXPONA demo system that we think rivals the performance of systems costing thousands more. Scratch that - we know it rivals the performance of more expensive systems! The Studio Electric M4 stand... Read More »
Statement Cartridge With State-of-the-Art Performance Grooves in Nirvana A Room Schaumberg, IL, 12 April 2024: Aidas Cartridges, designer and manufacturer of world-class phono cartridges, proudly announces the Worldwide premiere of their Mammoth Gold Limited Edition (LE) cartridge today at AXPONA 2024. Notable Audio Products, Aidas’ US Distributor, will showcase this cartridge in the Nirvana A... Read More »
At AXPONA 2024, Audience will be showcasing its ClairAudient 1+1 V5 loudspeakers and a range of other products in the Glenn Poor’s Audio Video exhibit, Room 364. The entire system will be wired with Audience’s top of the line frontRow cables and will feature the adeptResponse power conditioner. The ClairAudient 1+1 V5 is the latest evolution of Audience’s acclaimed loudspeaker, a bi-pole design... Read More »
Worcester, MA – April 3, 2024 – Vinnie Rossi, a trailblazer in high-end audio, proudly presents the highly anticipated 2nd generation of its Brama Collection. With a legacy of innovation and craftsmanship spanning two decades, Vinnie Rossi continues to set new benchmarks in audio excellence, offering discerning audiophiles an unparalleled listening experience. The 2nd generation Brama... Read More »
TraNt Power Supply and Pi Join Taurus and 12.1 in Dynaudio Suite Schaumberg, IL—April 12, 2024: Brinkmann Audio is proud to announce the North American debut of the new TraNt Power Supply and the return of our legendary Pi Phono Cartridge, starting today at AXPONA. Once again, Brinkmann will be in the Dynaudio Suite, Utopia... Read More »
Pangea Audio to Bring Record Doctor X Vacuum Cleaning Machine, Vincent Audio, and Extensive Selection of Audio Furniture and Accessories to AXPONA ’24 What: Pangea Audio Distributing, developer and manufacturer of high performance, high-value audio accessories, will bring acclaimed recent introduction and assorted greatest hits to AXPONA '24. Located in rooms on nearly every floor... Read More »
Dear Partners and Friends, We are thrilled to announce that Goldmund will be making a remarkable appearance at the Axpona Audio Show 2024, in collaboration with our esteemed partners, Rhythm Distribution. This prestigious event marks a pivotal moment for us, as we invite you to immerse yourself in the exquisite soundscapes crafted by our latest audio... Read More »
Unconstrained by restrictions, Canton endeavored to push the limits of what was technically possible to create the best sounding and best performing loudspeaker in Canton's history. In over 50 years of company history, never before has a Canton loudspeaker been developed and manufactured with this level of complexity. The Reference GS are a statement: the... Read More »
Nobody talks about Vaughn Monroe (1911-1973) anymore. That's sad, because Monroe was a very good singer. It's pretty clear to me that it's his unusual voice that places him in obscurity. Nothing sounds like his baritone voice. By today's standards, and even by my own retro standards, he sounds a little usual. His voice is... Read More »
Ye Olde Editor with cigar and match, 2021 (photograph and image processing by John Robinson) Here's the last set of my Audio Oasis! Awards from PAF 2023, together with the final set of photographs. Focal-Naim The Naim-Focal room I'll admit it: I was very impressed by the Focal-Naim space. Departing from the usual emphasis on... Read More »
24th March 2024 Los Angeles, California - The Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society, Bob Levi, Chairman, will host The Los Angeles Audio Show ‘25 at the Hilton Orange County Costa Mesa Hotel on January 17-19, 2025, premiering the finest high-end audio components and loudspeakers from the world's best manufacturers and dealers. Open to the... Read More »
Rhino Entertainment has announced their cleverly named Start Your Ear Off Right series, which features a slate of eighteen limited edition LP releases, with most of them being offered in cool colored-vinyl variants. The releases criss-cross a multitude of genres and artists, ranging from rock (The Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, Stevie Nicks),... Read More »
PREMIERE Fezz Audio is a company specializing in tube amplifiers. It is the audiophile branch of toroidal transformer manufacturer, Toriody.pl, also for audio applications. Fezz Audio was founded in 2014, and its first product was the Laura integrated amplifier. We are testing its Equinox digital-to-analog converter. This is its first test in the world. The... Read More »
For a man who still retains spontaneity, truth will always remain a great word, at the sound of which the heart beats more vividly. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the history of philosophy I don't know if you have noticed, but since the beginning of High Fidelity, we have tried to operate according to principles... Read More »
Craft Recordings' has just released the sixth installment in their premium Small Batch audiophile LP series with a reissue of Isaac Hayes' 1969 sophomore effort, Hot Buttered Soul. Long considered a landmark release of Sixties soul music, Hot Buttered Soul created the template that would serve as the launching pad for Isaac Hayes' future successes... Read More »
Siltech is one of the three brands that make up International Audio Holding BV. Founded in 1983 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, it specialized in silver cabling. In 1992 it was bought by Edwin van der Kley Rynveld, an electronics engineer, who introduced it to the exclusive world of high-end. We are testing an RCA analog... Read More »
Austin, TX, March 26,2024---Austin AudioWorks is a new company, with products that are very different from the mainstream. How are they different? AAW’s first two products are The Black AMP headphone amp, and The Black Swan phono preamplifier. Sonic purity and only positive interaction with transducers— headphones or cartridges— are their defining qualities, achieved through the use of zero-feedback, ultrawide... Read More »
See Somethin’ is a spontaneous live-in-the-studio session, and I Wish You Love features Brazilian and European influences, both recorded in state-of-the-art Pure DSD 256 high-resolution audio Boulder, Colorado, March 26, 2024 – Jazz trumpet virtuoso Gabriel Mervine has released two new albums for Octave Records: See Somethin’ and I Wish You Love, both recorded using Octave’s Pure DSD 256 recording system. See Somethin’ is the... Read More »
Sony Music Entertainment, Columbia Records, and Legacy Recordings have just reissued Alice In Chains' classic 1994 EP Jar of Flies in a 30th Anniversary special edition. Jar of Flies, despite only being an EP, was one of Alice In Chains most important releases, and included several of their biggest hits from the 1990s. The EP... Read More »
Frank Doris is a valued colleague at Positive Feedback, a Senior Associate Editor here, as well, and Editor of Copper magazine, the publication of PS Audio. We republish the best of Frank's writing, with the kind permission of Copper. This reflective essay was first published on October 16, 2023, in Copper, Issue 199, as his "Frankly Speaking"... Read More »
Impex Records has just released another of their incredible 1STEP 45 rpm LP box sets, this time featuring the classic Bossa Nova album Getz/Gilberto. Impex's 1STEP process is fairly labor-intensive, in that it requires cutting a new set of lacquers for every pressing run of 500 LPs. This nearly insane level of precision guarantees that... Read More »
With this episode of the audio analyst©, "Episode 167: Southwest Audio Fest 2024-Best Rooms - High End by Oz," I’m highlighting the remarkable sonic achievements of Room 1401 at that show. It was sponsored by 3mA, a Houston retail establishment, United Home Audio, and High End by Oz. This is the first of several in-room... Read More »
Estelon, the renowned luxury audio brand, is pleased to announce its participation at AXPONA 2024, hosted by Luxury Audio Group, from April 12th to 14th at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center. This prestigious event promises an extraordinary opportunity for audiophiles and enthusiasts to immerse themselves in the world of high-end audio. During AXPONA 2024, Estelon will present a... Read More »
Qobuz Club Celebrates Its First Anniversary and Introduces the VIP Pass and Its Online Store One year ago, Qobuz launched Qobuz Club, an exclusive online platform designed to provide a space for open discussion among all music and hi-fi enthusiasts. A year later, Qobuz Club has successfully brought together a community of music lovers and audiophiles... Read More »
Includes the following upgrades: New main circuit board. The network circuit is based on our Optical Module deluxe, which includes a super Ethernet chip from Broadcom, with less phase noise as compared to previous designs. New hub, less USB circuit technology. New proprietary clock injection technology. Lower noise drivers. We implemented a lower CPU cycles... Read More »
Markham, Ontario, 19th March 2024 – IsoAcoustics technology enjoys a great reputation among the most exquisite speaker manufacturers. Sonus faber has integrated the isolation technology from Canada in its latest state-of-the-art high-end sound reproduction system: Suprema. Absolute sonic excellence: Sonus faber Suprema Sonus faber is a name synonymous with immaculate sound. The Italian manufacturer does not... Read More »
Southport, UK iFi Audio, a trailblazer in high-fidelity audio components, proudly introduces its latest innovation: the GO Bar Kensei. Merging artistry and Japanese swordsmanship with cutting-edge audio technology, the GO Bar Kensei is the world’s first ultraportable DAC with K2HD technology to bring listeners closer to the original recordings of their favourite music. K2HD Technology... Read More »
We hope you'll join us at the upcoming Montréal Audiofest — this Friday-Sunday, March 22-24, at the Hotel Bonaventure (900 de la Gauchetière Ouest) in Montréal — where we'll be making beautiful music in a diverse collection of world-class audio systems. Find us in the following locations: Filtronique: Room 2414 Two systems — one featuring AudioQuest Dragon cables and... Read More »
Qobuz and ECM launch Global Partnership Manfred Eicher © Richard Schroeder / ECM Records Paris, March 18th , 2024 - Qobuz, the French high-quality music streaming and download platform, is joining forces with the highly respected jazz label, ECM. This global initiative will feature exclusive playlists, editorial content, and original videos in collaboration with ECM... Read More »
Who the heck was Bill Snyder? Based on the scarce info I could find, William P. Snyder (1916-2011), from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was America's most recorded light music pianist during the 1950s. Unfortunately for Bill's legacy, today's music lovers don't listen to the dim lit sound of light pianists, especially on mono LPs from... Read More »
Profundo and Genesis Advanced Technologies announce the U.S. introduction of products from Heed Audio and The Wand at the Southwest Audiofest in Rooms 1422 and 1423 of the Hilton Anatole Dallas Atrium, March 15-17, 2024. For 30 years now, Heed Audio has been producing some of the highest-performing audio electronics for the money available anywhere... Read More »
MARCH 14TH, 2024 (Montreal, Canada) MOON is delighted to announce the availability of its highly anticipated 891 network player/preamplifier. As the flagship source and preamp in the new North Collection of premium MOON products, the 891 establishes a benchmark with its exceptional components, construction, features, and performance. The MOON 891 represents the culmination of decades... Read More »
A NEW SUMMIT IN LOUDSPEAKER ENGINEERING For over 20 years, Vivid Audio has developed ground-breaking loudspeakers to consistent critical acclaim. As with any high-end audio company, we constantly seek ways to push the envelope further. We’re therefore very pleased to announce the introduction of an all-new ultra-premium loudspeaker – the Moya M1. This will be... Read More »
Hear What the Professionals are Hearing Weiss HELIOS offers the same uncompromised representation of the music as in professional mastering studios. It maintains the same quality level, with design and features tailored for the high-end hi-fi market. The HELIOS, a highly anticipated successor to MEDUS, is a professional-level digital-to-analog converter, originating in the Weiss Engineering’s... Read More »
March, 2024 - Carbide Audio introduces small footer editions: Carbide Base Micro and Nano. Carbide Base Micro is a smaller version of our award-winning Carbide Base footer. It shares the same novel approach to utilizing low shape factor viscoelastics for superior bass performance. The primary difference is 3 smaller Micro ViscoRings™ are used rather than... Read More »
