Audio Skies Michael Vamos - YG Acoustics, JMF Audio, Ideon at Capital Audiofest 2025

The Listening Room and Fidelity Imports - Diptyque DP-160 Mk.2 at Capital Audiofest 2025

Fidelity Imports Audia Flight and Perlisten System

Fidelity Imports Wilson Benesch and Audia Flight System at Capital Audiofest 2025

J Sikora Aspire, Innuos Stream 3, Aurender N50, Gryphon Antileon Revelation, Command Performance AV

Bella Sound Kalalau Preamplifier: Interview with Mike Vice

BorderPatrol Zola DAC – Gary Dews at Capital Audiofest 2025

Audio Note UK TT3 Reference Turntable Debut at Capital Audiofest 2025

Kevin Hayes of VAC at Capital Audiofest 2025

2WA Group debuts Aequo Ensium at Capital Audiofest 2025

Capital Audiofest 2025 lobby marketplace walk through day one

Lucca Chesky Introduces the LC2 Loudspeaker at Capital Audiofest 2025

Capital Audiofest 2025 Gary Gill interview

LATEST ADDITIONS

Stand Loudspeaker Reviews

Kii Audio SEVEN active loudspeaker system

Kalman Rubinson Jan 30, 2026

I reviewed the Kii THREE digital active loudspeaker in the September 2017 issue of Stereophile and was totally smitten. It was cutting edge in supporting analog and digital sources, direct-wired and network connections, and streaming.

Audacious Audio Floor Loudspeaker Reviews

EgglestonWorks Andra 5 loudspeaker

Tom Fine Jan 29, 2026

Big loudspeakers are where diligent hi-fi reviewers really earn their pay. Not only are they heavy and difficult to move, but they also require attention and patience to set up so that they sound their best in our listening spaces. They take time to understand and study. And they all sound quite different from each other.

Phono Preamp Reviews

Luxman E-07 phono preamplifier

Herb Reichert Jan 28, 2026

My DACs are taking naps. I have not played music from a digital source in at least 12 weeks. I'm having too much fun playing records from the '50s and '60s with period-correct phono cartridges and listening to 100-year-old 78s at the Hot Club of New York.

Capital AudioFest 2025 Phono Preamp Reviews Spin Doctor

Spin Doctor #33: Hi-Fi Shows, the 2025 Capitol Audiofest, and the Doshi Evolution Phono Preamplifier

Michael Trei Jan 26, 2026

I was heading back home to New York in my old Mercedes diesel on a Sunday evening, having just attended the annual Capital Audiofest near Washington, DC. Riding shotgun was fellow Stereophile scribbler Ken Micallef, and as we puttered along the straight, featureless lower half of the New Jersey Turnpike, we started to reminisce about our audio show experiences.

Records To Die For

Records 2 Live 4 2026

Stereophile Staff Jan 22, 2026

When this feature premiered in 1991, it was intended as a list of recordings that were, in the words of Richard Lehnert, the music editor at the time, "both musically and sonically impeccable—in other words, the best, the tops, to die for."

Audacious Audio Solid State Preamp Reviews

CH Precision L10 Stereo line preamplifier

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 21, 2026

Stereophile strives to distribute the wealth equally. Did that get your attention? What the statement refers to, in terminology devoid of dollar signs, is that Stereophile attempts to review products from different companies rather than repeatedly focus on products from a single company.

Re-Tales

Re-Tales #62: Sticking With It, 36 Years of Accent on Music

Julie Mullins Jan 20, 2026

David and Alma Wilson must be doing something right. They've been married for 50 years, and for 36 years, they've owned and operated Accent on Music on Main Street in Mount Kisco, New York, about an hour north of New York City.

Brilliant Corners Capital AudioFest 2025 Music and Recording Reviews

Brilliant Corners #35: the 2025 Capital Audiofest and a Classic Frank Sinatra Album

Alex Halberstadt Jan 19, 2026

"You should come to CAF," Ken Micallef said. He has been saying this for what seems like decades. "It's cool, smaller and more manageable than AXPONA. You'll like it."

As We See It

Sound Pressure: Listening to Loudspeakers

Jim Austin Jan 16, 2026

Sometimes speakers talk to me. Usually when they do, they ask me to move them, or to move myself—the listening position—to suit them.

Recording of the Month

Recording of February 2026: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 15, 2026

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto; Andrew Staples, tenor. Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, cond.
Harmonia Mundi HMM 902740 (CD; reviewed as 24/96). 2026. Jiri Heger, prod., eng.
Performance *****