Virginia based High-End Home Audio showroom Alma Audio East will be hosting a landmark event for YG Acoustics in 2023. This occasion marks a celebration for Alma Audio East’s opening of their first east coast location. The celebration began with an event, held in August 2023, that we reported on here. In that reporting, we …
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One of the first (if not the first) Rega Naia turntables is coming to America, and I know where it’s going. But more on that later. Firstly—what is the Rega Naia? The Naia represents the new production flagship turntable from Rega. Notice how I said “production”, that’s because the Naia comes as the result of …
As part of their CEDIA Expo exhibition earlier today, McIntosh Labs introduced to the world what feels like the longest and girthiest subwoofer we’ve seen in years. Though, I cannot confirm that it is in fact the ‘longest’ or ‘girthiest’ on the high-end home audio market right now, the new McIntosh Labs PS2K is definitely …
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The Wilson Audio Chronosonic XVX is the second largest loudspeaker in the Wilson Audio catalog. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Standing at almost 74-American-inches tall, with a waistline circumference of nearly 100-American-inches, and a weight per speaker of 685-American-pounds the Chronosonic XVX is a sight (and sound) to behold. “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing …
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Technical Audio Devices Laboratories (TAD) is a sleeping giant in the American high-end home audio market. Having a neutral sound that derives its strongest attributes from the most prestigious recording, mixing, and mastering studios around the globe. Less stylized and more matter of fact, with the right electronics the overall presentation can be more than …
Not everyone has to start somewhere, and for that reason “high-end home audio” for us begins with products like the Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series Diamond flagship line of speakers. Throughout the history of their lineage, they have graced some of the most renowned recording studios in the world. Ever heard of Abbey Road Studios? …
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I write this review of the SW1X DAC IV Special while on a train gliding through the German countryside, listening to what I can only describe as guilty pleasure songs through a pair of second generation Apple AirPod Pro in-ear headphones. The experience I am having can only be described as meditative—there is little in …
Specialty dealer of high-end home audio—Alma Music & Audio—has announced the grand opening of their first “East Coast USA” location, near our own nation’s capital in Sterling, Virginia, USA. However, this one-day grand opening event is just the beginning. Reporting by Eric Franklin Shook Alma East—as the east coast location is called internally at Alma …
The final stop of our tour takes us back to our original mission: to find the best-of-the-best at the Audio Advice LIVE ’23 show. Our journey to find the best that high-end home audio and high-end home theater has to offer has also transcended our expectations. Here are the best exhibitions we’ve found during our three days …
Our third, but not final, stop in a whirlwind tour that takes us through what we believe to be the highlights of the Audio Advice LIVE ’23 show. This is just a glimpse of the best that high-end home audio and high-end home theater have to offer—each at varying strata of the lifestyle. Here are the debuts …
We continue our stop-by-stop tour through what we believe to be the highlights of the Audio Advice LIVE ’23 show. Reminding you that this is only a glimpse of the best that high-end home audio and high-end home theater have to offer—each at varying strata of the lifestyle. Here are the debuts (of which there are several) …
To the uninitiated, this is a stop-by-stop tour through what we believe to be the highlights of the Audio Advice LIVE ’23 show. Yet, this is only a glimpse of the best that high-end home audio and high-end home theater have to offer—each at varying strata of the lifestyle. Here are the debuts (of which …
UPDATE: COVERAGE HAS BEGUN To the uninitiated, this is a stop-by-stop tour through what we believe to be the highlights of the Audio Advice LIVE ’23 show. Yet, this is only a glimpse of the best that high-end home audio and high-end home theater have to offer—each at varying strata of the lifestyle. Here are the debuts (of which …
The time has come, and the new Wilson Audio Sasha V loudspeaker has arrived. Oddly though, this new speaker stirs up fond memories. I remember it clearly, personally reaching out with praise-in-hand to various members of the American based Wilson Audio family just after the launch of the first Sasha model loudspeaker over a decade …
T.H.E. Show 2023 presented a selection of electronics this year that were far and away higher-end and better sounding than in past years, and to my ears the new hotel had less challenging rooms and better results than previous years in Long Beach. Here are my personal highlights. Reporting by Grover Neville More of our …
T.H.E. Show 2023 presented a selection of speakers this year that were far and away higher-end and better sounding than in past years, and to my ears the new hotel had less challenging rooms and better results than previous years in Long Beach. Here’s a small selection of my personal highlights. Reporting by Grover Neville …
Angie Lisi of American Sound of Canada, who has recently taken on Rethm, and had some hiding in a second system in her large top-floor suite at Axpona 2023 was also rocking a number of other cool brands. Among them, Phasemation, Esoteric’s Magne-drive magnetic drive turntable, a full dCS Vivaldi Apex stack, and a pair …
Avantgarde, Phasemation, Esoteric, dCS, American Sound of Canada | AXPONA 2023 READ MORE
