Where Measurements and Performance Meet featuring Andrew Jones

High End Munich: Audio Reference "Most Exclusive System Ever" with Wilson and D'Agostino

LATEST ADDITIONS

Classé Audio Six Mk.II preamplifier

Larry Greenhill Oct 12, 2017

Classé Audio's flagship preamplifier, the Six, has enjoyed a five-year life spanquite long for an audiophile component. Company president Glen Grue reports that the Six's sales have continued to improve during that time. How to explain this solid-state preamp's continued success in competition with today's newer, remote-controlled, line-stage preamplifiers?

RMAF 2017

Herb's Denver Day Two, Part Two

Herb Reichert Oct 12, 2017

During my brief audition, this new, 6922 tube-equipped Stax amplifier played smother, slightly fuller, a little lusher, and, less electrostatically

RMAF 2017

The Rocky Mountain International HiFi Press Awards

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 12, 2017

Well-organized and presented, with winners that, in almost all instances, made sense, these were awards of substance, and worthy of your attention

RMAF 2017

Jana's Day One, Part Two

Jana Dagdagan Oct 12, 2017

"Oh my god, Justin Timberlake? That room's next." I thought to myself

RMAF 2017

Jason's Lively Start to Day Two

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 11, 2017

When the Greek poet Hesiod and Roman comic dramatist Plautus wrote about moderation in all things, I'm not sure they had in mind RMAF's Saturday morning seminar, "High Resolution Audio: Have files Eclipsed Physical Media?" Nor, in fact, did I

RMAF 2017

Herb's RMAF Day Two

Herb Reichert Oct 11, 2017

Each year, in honor and remembrance of her late husband and RMAF founder, Al Stiefel, Marjorie Baumert donates one exhibit room to support "a new manufacturer with an innovative product, or one who simply needs a little help"

RMAF 2017

More Revelations on Jason's Day One

Jason Victor Serinus Oct 11, 2017

When unquestionably fine components were given sufficient room to strut their stuff, as happened when the new Wilson Audio Alexia Series 2 loudspeaker was mated with Constellation Audio electronics, the results were often magical.

News

Dealer Events In Washington State & Florida Saturday

Stereophile Staff Oct 11, 2017

Saturday October 14, Gig Harbor Audio (3019 Judson Street, Suite D, Gig Harbor, WA 98335), from 13pm, and Suncoast Audio (7353 International Place, Unit 309, Sarasota, FL 34240), from 124pm, are presenting audiophile events.

RMAF 2017

Day One in Denver, with Herb

Herb Reichert Oct 10, 2017

Dear reader, please stop for a second to imagine how I could go from the above-mentioned MSB room to the $500 setup without feeling pain.

Floor Loudspeaker Reviews Historical

Quad ESL loudspeaker

Dick Olsher Oct 10, 2017

High fidelity took a giant step forward in 1956 with Peter Walker's introduction of the Quad ESL. Walker's research efforts had been motivated by his firm belief in the superiority of the electrostatic dipole over the box loudspeaker, but actually to take the economic plunge and market such a speaker was surely an act of bravery. After all, those were the pre-stereo, pre-audiophile days of the mid '50s, and the public's tastes and expectations were relatively unsophisticated. The average front end was abominable by today's standards, so that making definitive assessments of loudspeaker quality was a difficult task at best.