Vivid Audio Introduces Giya Cu Loudspeakers

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Vivid Audio introduces Giya Cu loudspeakers featuring technology from Moya M1

Mark Henninger Oct 10, 2025

Vivid Audio has announced the Giya Cu (Copper), a third-generation update to its iconic Giya loudspeaker series featuring copper-capped midrange drivers and updated enclosures.

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PSB Speakers launches SubSeries BP7 powered subwoofer

Mark Henninger Oct 09, 2025

PSB Speakers just launched the SubSeries BP7 powered subwoofer, a compact sealed model with a bipolar driver array and a 350W Universal class-D (UCD) amplifier. Pricing is $1199 USD (tariff adjusted) and $1399 CAD.

Brilliant Corners Digital Processor Reviews Headphone Reviews

Brilliant Corners #31: Campfire Earphones & Relay DAC & the FiiO M15S portable player

Alex Halberstadt Oct 09, 2025

Over the years, I've listened to many headphones, beginning with the Grado SR60s I bought with my first paycheck. Since then, I've been lucky enough to sample many exotic cans, but I always return to the admittedly controversial realization that I happen to prefer ... earphones.

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Audio Vision San Francisco "Experience the Future of Sound" weekend: Oct 18–19

Mark Henninger Oct 08, 2025

Audio Vision San Francisco will host a two-day "Experience the Future of Sound" event on Saturday and Sunday, October 18–19, 2025, from 12–6pm at 1628 California Street in San Francisco, with seminars, system demos, and a giveaway drawing.

Spin Doctor Tonearm Reviews Turntable Reviews

Spin Doctor #29: Static, the Wand Master Turntable & Dark-Light tonearm, and Very Large Choirs

Michael Trei Oct 08, 2025

The largest regularly scheduled choral singing event in the world is the Estonian National Song Festival, or Laulupidu, which comes around about once every five years in Tallinn, Estonia's capital city. The numbers are pretty mind blowing.

Aural Robert

50 Years of Blues at Antone's

Robert Baird Oct 07, 2025

Left to right: Clifford Antone, Doug Sahm, Albert Collins. (Photo Courtesy of Susan Antone.)

There have been venue owners who have been larger than life—Hilly Kristal (CBGB) and Doug Weston (Troubadour) come to mind—but few live-music club owners have ever lived in and for the music the way that Clifford Antone has.

New Products News

From Simaudio's Moon: A new product, a new series

Jim Austin Oct 03, 2025

Simaudio has introduced a streaming network streamer/integrated amplifier, the Moon 371, the first product in a new, more affordable series called Compass. Why Compass? The name evokes the name of the higher-end North series, introduced in 2023. "Compass guides you North," a Simaudio rep said at a press event in Boucherville, across the river from Montreal.

Digital Processor Reviews

Bricasti Design M21 D/A processor

Sasha Matson Oct 03, 2025

Those of us who review audio equipment, and even audiophiles who don't, often talk about our reference systems. The term implies a certain level of consistency. If you are changing components every week, your system probably lacks the stability to be a true reference. In the case of reviewers, this presents an irony . . .

Recommended Components

Recommended Components Fall 2025 Edition

Stereophile Staff Oct 02, 2025

Every product listed here has been reviewed in Stereophile. Within each category, products are listed by class; within each class, they're in alphabetical order, followed by their price, a review synopsis, and a note indicating the issues in which the review, and any subsequent follow-up reports, appeared.

Audacious Audio Tube Preamp Reviews

Octave Audio Jubilee preamplifier

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 02, 2025

Way back in the age when Stereophile's print magazine was the size of a theater playbill, common wisdom declared that the tube preamp was the ideal complement to solid state amplification.