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Weiss DAC204 D/A processor

Robert Schryer Jul 31, 2025

Weiss Engineering D/A processors are widely known for their high quality, in both home-audio and pro-audio circles. Over several Stereophile reviews, they have always measured well. Oh, and did you know they'd won a Grammy Award? Weiss Engineering founder and chief designer Daniel Weiss won the 2021 Grammy Award for Technical Merit for his pioneering work during the '80s and '90s designing digital equipment for mastering studios.

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Onkyo Adds C-30 CD Player to Icon Series

Mark Henninger Jul 31, 2025

Onkyo has introduced the C-30 CD player, the latest addition to its Icon Series of hi-fi components. The player features Onkyo’s proprietary Vector Linear Shaping Circuit (VLSC), designed to remove pulse noise from the signal path.

Room Treatment Reviews

PSI Audio AVAA C214 active bass trap

Kalman Rubinson Jul 30, 2025

Ever since I became interested in—nay, obsessed with—high-quality music reproduction, my goal has been to attain the experience of being at a performance. Some audiophiles target the recreation of the event in their room—a "they are here" experience.

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Klipsch to Show Red Oak Finish, Demo Active Crossover at Audio Advice Live

Mark Henninger Jul 29, 2025

Klipsch willl introduce a Red Oak finish option for its Heritage Forte IV and Heresy IV loudspeakers at Audio Advice Live 2025. The finish, paired with gray heathered grilles, marks its first public appearance.

Aural Robert

Bruce Springsteen's Later-Career Back Catalog

Robert Baird Jul 29, 2025

Photo by Danny Clinch

Seeing Bruce Springsteen perform live in the 1970s and early '80s, pre–Born in the U.S.A., could be a life-changing experience. Bruce was the hungry leader of a relentless, turn-on-a-dime R&B band. A burning star streaking across the rock'n'roll sky, he threw his fiery young self into maximum shows full of urgency (to invoke one of his best rhymes) and those wordy, anthemic pleading/strutting urban fairy tales. He was leagues beyond almost everything and everyone else in those days.

Munich 2025 Spin Doctor

Spin Doctor #27: Michael's Magical Mystery Tour

Michael Trei Jul 28, 2025

Innuos's Nuno Vitorino introduces the new Nazaré streamer-server. (Photos by Michael Trei.)

It was supposed to be so simple, a well-trod path I've followed almost every May for the last decade: A six-day trip to Munich to attend the final Munich High End Show before it decamps to Vienna next year.

Brilliant Corners Munich 2025

Brilliant Corners #29: The Final High End Munich

Alex Halberstadt Jul 25, 2025

The Ana Mighty Sound system. (All photos in this report by Alex Halberstadt)

During the past decade and a half, the trips I've taken have tended to be for magazine stories. I love to travel, but as a New Yorker living on a writer's income, I figure it makes more sense to do it on someone else's dime and stay in nicer places than I could afford otherwise. The downside is that these trips don't feel like vacations, or even particularly restful: My time tends to be taken up with interviews, overly elaborate meals eaten (or tasted) in the company of chefs and winemakers, weeks when I sometimes stay in four hotels, and (gratefully infrequent) run-ins with publicists.

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Musical Fidelity Introduces B1xi Integrated Amplifier

Mark Henninger Jul 23, 2025

Musical Fidelity has announced the B1xi, a new integrated amplifier that marks the debut of its reimagined B-Series. Drawing inspiration from the original B1 released in the 1990s, the B1xi features a fully discrete class-A/B design and omits displays and wireless streaming in favor of analog simplicity.

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AudioQuest Introduces Brave Heart Speaker Cable with ZERO-Tech

Mark Henninger Jul 23, 2025

AudioQuest has announced Brave Heart, a new ZERO-Tech speaker cable positioned below its Mythical series in price but incorporating many of the same materials and design principles.

Re-Tales

Re-Tales 56: The Impact of Tariffs on the Hi-Fi Industry

Julie Mullins Jul 21, 2025

Stereophile readers are surely aware of the tariff situation under the current administration—a situation that has changed rapidly, often daily. The tariff penalty—and arguably even more, the lack of economic stability resulting from tariff volatility—has a major impact on buying, pricing, and corporate strategy in the hi-fi industry. Hi-fi is just one of many industries experiencing the impacts of increased costs and uncertainty.