By Herb Reichert | Posted: Feb 23, 2017 In the United Kingdom, the first seeds of perfectionism in audio separates were sown by Goodmans Industries, founded in 1925. Then, in 1930, Garrard (est. 1722) produced its first commercial gramophone. Shortly thereafter, England experienced the Great Slump, the British name for the worldwide catastrophe known in the […]
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by TAS Staff | Dec 19th, 2016 Audioengine A2+ $249 Easily one of the best deals in high-end audio, the Audioengine A2+ powered desktop speakers are simply incredible. How is it possible to get such low-end extension, wide soundstaging, pinpoint imaging, and smooth sonics from tiny desktop speakers that cost $249? Even though the amps in
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As has seemingly become the case with each new product introduction, there was once again just so much great press from CES this year. Audiophiles (both the press and attendees) were simply blown away with Sandy’s demo of the new Triton Reference Tower. Here are a few excerpts and snippets from some of the
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That Sinking Feeling by Neil Gader | Jan 13th, 2017 CES 2017 and its often-fractious relationship with the high end might very well be encapsulated by the Bob Dylan lyric, “It’s not dark yet, but it’s gettin’ there.” The decline in exhibitors at the Venetian (as many as thirty to forty by some estimates) was striking. Not
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by Jonathan Valin | Jan 11th, 2017 I have some good news and some bad news about CES 2017. The good news—and it is good news—is that the sound at this year’s rendition of Viva Las Vegas was considerably better than it’s been in years past. The bad news—and it is very bad—is that there
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By John Atkinson Posted: Jan 18, 2017 “Dammit!” No sooner had I praised small loudspeakers while dismissing large speakers as potentially having “large problems,” in my review of the Crystal Arabesque Minissimo Diamond in the www.stereophile.com/content/crystal-cable-arabesque-minissimo-diamond-loudspeaker “>October issue, than I had to eat my words. Only days after that issue had gone to press, Magico’s
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by Alan Sircom | Jan 06, 2017 New product launches in the audio sector have moved from January to May, and this year’s CES shows just how big that change is. Despite this, there were some exciting new products seen for the first time, many of which will likely come to dominate the high-end market in 2017.
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(January 5, 2017 – Stevenson, MD) In 2014, GoldenEar introduced the Triton One to great acclaim at the Las Vegas CES. Then, the Triton One launched into the marketplace, thrilling listeners and reviewers alike, while achieving stupendous and previously unheard-of sales velocity for a loudspeaker in its price range. And, of equal importance, the One
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By: Dennis Burger, January 5, 2017 Where do you go after you’ve created one of the most critically acclaimed speakers of the past decade, if not longer? I’m referring, in case it needs spelling out, to GoldenEar Technology’s Triton One, a speaker that garnered the sort of ink in the year of its release that’s normally reserved
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by TAS Staff | Dec 12th, 2016 Monitor Audio Gold 300 $5700 Monitor Audio, a forty-plus-year-old UK-based manufacturer, is one of the pioneers of metal-driver technology. Melding impressive sound with cool-looking functional design, the surfaces of its proprietary C-CAM (Ceramic-Coated Aluminum/Magnesium) alloy metal-dome bass and midrange drivers are dimpled with small, round indentations in a
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