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News

Scott McGowan launches Sprout HiFi after 17 years at PS Audio

Mark Henninger Oct 02, 2025

Scott McGowan has left PS Audio to form Sprout HiFi, a new company built around a next-generation Sprout amplifier. The first Sprout HiFi product, a revamped version of the Sprout100, is projected for 2026, with email sign-ups open now.

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Qobuz Connect comes to BluOS for direct high-resolution app-to-player streaming

Mark Henninger Oct 01, 2025

BluOS, the multiroom platform from Lenbrook Media Group, announced upcoming support for Qobuz Connect. The integration will let listeners cast music directly from the Qobuz app to any compatible BluOS player.

CD Player/Transport Reviews Gramophone Dreams

Gramophone Dreams #101: The Shanling ET3 CD transport

Herb Reichert Oct 01, 2025

Costing just $899, Shanling's top-loading ET3 CD transport appears to have been designed by people who recognize the multitude of big and small fails (or lost opportunities) of previous CD transports. In use, the ET3 felt like a distillation of what I've always wanted in a transport: strong, solid, compact, cool-looking, and feels good to use.

News

Rutherford Audio named TADL’s consumer distributor for Canada and the US

Mark Henninger Oct 01, 2025

Technical Audio Devices Laboratories, Inc. (TADL) has appointed Rutherford Audio Inc. as distributor for its hi-fi consumer products in Canada and the US.

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mbl has a new owner, says future is secure

Mark Henninger Sep 30, 2025

German speaker and electronics manufacturer MBL Akustikgeräte has been acquired by MBL International GmbH, a new subsidiary of China’s Chow Tai Seng. MBL says the deal secures the company’s long-term future and is a step toward resolving ongoing insolvency proceedings.

Revinylization

Revinylization #69: Pablo Records via Granz and Kassem

Ken Micallef Sep 30, 2025

Way back in my ignorant youth I thought that Pablo Records, the label of jazz producer/promoter legend Norman Granz, was where jazz artists went to fade away, where they were put out to pasture. I thought the black discs inside Pablo's black-and-white jackets, which depicted jazz greats tracking sessions in their twilight years, couldn't compete with the music of younger jazz guns.

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Five-alarm fire storms resolution A/V in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Ken Micallef Sep 29, 2025

At 1am on September 17, 2025, Adam Wexler’s phone broke through his snores. He silenced the call and rolled over. Four hours later, the insistent ring jolted him awake. “When Ray, an amazing man who oversees the pier and runs everything around here, called me at 1am, I ignored it,” Wexler recalled, “though fire did cross my mind, because this space is entirely timber. Then my employee Robert Kapszewicz called, and I went to the warehouse at 5:30am.”

Budget Component Reviews Stand Loudspeaker Reviews

Radiant Acoustics Clarity 4.2 loudspeaker

Herb Reichert Sep 26, 2025

On the first page of the Radiant Acoustics Clarity 4.2 Welcome Guide, Radiant Acoustics founder Peter Lyngdorf states, "The first thing you'll notice when listening to these speakers is the absence of distortion."

Audacious Audio Digital Processor Reviews

CH Precision C10 D/A processor

Jim Austin Sep 25, 2025

It takes audacity for a company that already builds one of the finest DACs on the planet, which is already expensive, to set out to build one that's so much better that it warrants an extra digit in the model number and a much higher price tag. But then CH Precision has never lacked audacity.

Re-Tales

Re-Tales #58: A Succession Story in Toronto

Julie Mullins Sep 24, 2025

This month's Re-Tales takes us to Toronto again—though it's quite a different story than the one we told last month, in a different part of Toronto.