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Capital Audiofest 2025: Another North American High-End Audio Show Turns 15

Myles B. Astor — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:49:35 +0000

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 »

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Toronto Audio Fest (TAF) 2025 – Show Coverage, Part 2

Douglas Seth Brown — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:26:07 +0000

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 »

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Capital Audiofest 2025

Scott Dorsey — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:37:19 +0000

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 »

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AES 2025

Scott Dorsey — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:34:23 +0000

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 »

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Toronto Audio Fest (TAF) 2025 Show Coverage, Part 1

Douglas Seth Brown — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:34:27 +0000

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 »

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T.H.E. Show SoCal 2025

Steve Lefkowicz — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:19:04 +0000

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 »

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CanJam SoCal 2025

Steve Lefkowicz — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:41:34 +0000

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 »

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Audio Good Guy Shayne Tenace's New High-End Showplace: Absoulute Premium Audio+Video, in Aiken, South Carolina

Tom Gibbs — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:25:18 +0000

When I moved to the Charleston, South Carolina area three years ago, I figured out something very quickly: the Low Country is a veritable wasteland when it comes to high-end audio—there's nothing here. And I mean nothing, other than a few pieces of mostly mid-fi gear at an occasional Best Buy location. I only thought... Read More »

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Audio Advice Live 2025: An Ambitious Regional Audio/Visual Showcase Evolves into a Major High-End Audio and Consumer Electronics Show

Tom Gibbs — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:20:46 +0000

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 »

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AXPONA at Fifteen: Reflections on the America's Largest High-End Audio Expo and 2025 Show

Myles B. Astor — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:57:50 +0000

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 »

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Impressions: AXPONA 2025, Part The First...My Audio Oasis! Awards

David W. Robinson — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:43:07 +0000

Ye Olde Editor: a Fantasy. (Photograph by John Robinson; image processing by yours truly.) AXPONA time again... Another year, another AXPONA. The biggest high-end audio show in the USA had its latest iteration on April 11-13 at the Renaissance Schamburg Hotel in Schamburg, IL. According to the AXPONA management team, "10,000+ attendees and 700+ brands... Read More »

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T.H.E. Lone Star Audiofest 2025 Show Report

Norman Tracy — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:25:32 +0000

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 »

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2025 Munich High-End Show

Key Kim — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:49:47 +0000

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 »

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AXPONA 2025: Bigger, Better, and a Great Escape from Tariff Concerns!

Juan C. Ayllon — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:11:04 +0000

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 »

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The 2025 Florida International Audio Show

Lee Scoggins — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:58:06 +0000

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 »

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Maurice Jeffries and the New Apartment Lounge Visit Florida International Audio Expo (FIAE) 2025

Maurice Jeffries — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:51:29 +0000

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 »

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Florida International Audio Expo 2025, My Favorite Rooms, Part 2

Tom Gibbs — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:50:17 +0000

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 »

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Florida International Audio Expo 2025, My Favorite Rooms, Part 1

Tom Gibbs — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:21:23 +0000

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 »

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AES 2024 Show Report

Scott Dorsey — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:06:52 +0000

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 »

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The 2024 AES Show

Frank Doris — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:42:53 +0000

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 »

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Toronto Audio Fest 2024

Douglas Seth Brown — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:47:35 +0000

Toronto Audio Fest Show Report, Friday, 18 October - Sunday 20 October 2024 Encouraging an audiophile with a cabling and equipment addiction to attend the 2024 Toronto Audio Fest, (herein referred to as TAF 2024), is like encouraging an alcoholic to fly to Scotland and take a three week tour of Scotch Whiskey distilleries. Such... Read More »

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Lone Star Audio Fest 2024

Norman Tracy — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:46:19 +0000

Our tribe of dedicated audiophiles and music lovers met up in Dallas Texas the weekend of June 7-9 for the seventeenth Lone Star Audio Fest. LSAF is designed and executed to be different from typical HiFi shows. The emphasis is placed on hosting a low-cost experience encouraging individual audiophiles, DIYers/Makers, startups and smaller companies to... Read More »

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Southwest Audio Fest 2024

Norman Tracy — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:54:25 +0000

I admit to being skeptical. In 2023 when Gary Gill and Lou Hinkley announced their plan to hold a new HiFi show called Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas Texas March 15-17, 2024 my first reaction was "does North America need another high-end audio show?" Apparently, it is not about needs, rather wants. And the Dallas... Read More »

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Greg Weaver — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:13:14 +0000

Following my first three episodes from this year's event, these wrap-up event episodes bring you my final three sets of coverage, each addressing three remarkable rooms. Can you say World Premieres? In this episode, I explore the world premiere of the Kronos Discover Phono stage, the Göble Divin Comtesse loudspeakers, and Alon Wolf's Magico S5... Read More »

Impressions: My AXPONA 2024 Audio Oasis! Awards, Part This One...

David W. Robinson — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 23:55:14 +0000

Ye Olde Editor delivering the goods, Corvallis, Oregon, 1972. (Photograph by John Hull.) Yes, I've always been this way. Munich has come and gone...so has my serious bout with pneumonia...and I'd like to get my AXPONA 2024 Audio Oasis! Awards published before any more time goes by. (These are two big shows that are too... Read More »

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