If there ever was a high-end company building audio components that could corrupt a monk, TIDAL Audio is it. Much like Vito Corleone’s offer you just can’t refuse, TIDAL wares are in a very exclusive club of luxury products that make everyone trustworthy ‘I couldn’t say no’ list. That is to say, if I were […]
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Driving around downtown Chicago’s West Loop, you’ll find no shortage of restaurants, bars, and cafe storefronts to captivate the passing eye. Almost hidden among them Green Street Smoked Meats stands apart as a pinch of home for this partially-Texas-raised boy from North Carolina. From the street, an unremarkable marked-up, mostly black painted, factory-like building with
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Earlier this summer Porsche and still-newcomer Backdrop shook hands and joined forces to create a premium home decor product that celebrates in full color the 75th Anniversary of PORSCHE cars. Collaborations like this one, from Backdrop specifically, hit home (pun intended). For almost almost a decade I was the owner of a ‘specialty high-end coatings
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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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The Bugatti CHIRON Super Sport ‘Golden Era’ is beautifully personal homage to the brand’s incomparable era-defining moments in aesthetic form bringing to life a story weaving through time, legend, and distinction. Reporting by Eric Franklin Shook Told through a composition of beautifully intricate illustrations applied on the car’s body with entirely new techniques and processes,
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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
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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
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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
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Before the first visitors arrived at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend, the “top brass” at Porsche took the new Mission X concept car out on the iconic hillclimb. This is the first time the Mission X was seen out in the wild. This test drive was closed-off to the press, however a promotional
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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
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Showing off a host of new features and functions. The Koenigsegg Client Specification Gemera is here, and we can’t wait to drive this awesomeness to the next audio show. Included below is all of the development information about the new Gemera, including words from Christian von Koenigsegg himself, along with a link to short film
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What is the size of a grain of salt? A question like this seems relatively trivial to the cook, but to the Chefs at Roister — Grant Achatz of Alinea, Next and Aviary fame, and the casual dining location of today’s visit in West Loop Chicago — the answer is what makes and breaks their execution.
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Florida Audio Expo 2023 is a wrap! The kick-off event to every hi-fi calendar, Florida Audio Expo 2023 returns to its full glory. Attendance and brand participation were at their highest levels in years. The overall mood and vibe of the show was that of celebration, and less of the worry and fear you might
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The new VRC does something almost unmatched elsewhere in audiophile history. It takes the goalpost and moves it so far down the road, that what was once considered true high-end, is in real danger of being demoted to “bespoke mid-fi.”
Acora Acoustics, VAC, Oracle, Lampizator, Aurender, Cardas | FLAX 2023 READ MORE
Is Au Cheval one of America’s top five burgers or even the best burger in absolute terms as some food writers proclaim? I think so. Was it worth me dropping everything and navigating through angry holiday travelers and the brutal Chicago winter wind just to have the experience? I’ll answer that with yet another question: “What are you doing for lunch tomorrow?”
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SEA, SOUND, and SUN in the middle of winter. That’s what makes the Florida Audio Expo a unique highlight of the High-End Audio Show calendar. At its inception, several members of the audiophile press deemed the Florida show worth attending, even if the alternative reasoning was for warm sunny weather.
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