These British electrostatic speakers basically defined the category for many audiophiles. Top speaker engineers are known to own Quad ESL 63s as part of their personal reference systems. Their warm ...

High End Audio In The 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s: The seeds of specialty and high-end audio began at the end of World War Two and gained momentum with the end of the Korean War. Many veterans took ...

Even a casual review of the usual audiophile websites, trade magazines, consumer electronic equipment ads, professional organizations (think: NARAS or the CTA), or content providers like HDTracks, ...

Tape-scrape induced wow and flutter are intrinsic to the tape recording process. But you don’t have to listen to piano with vibrato on its decay. Jamie Howarth has a transfer process that vastly ...

As a neophyte audiophile, I have read hundreds of articles on the internet and magazines about the importance of listening rooms. Long ago I could build me a room for stereo audio and home theater, ...

Cable discussions can turn normally rational audiophiles into nut-cases. I know. I’ve been reading and watching the discussions since I wired up my first stereo system. Recently I decided to ask two ...

Imagine – The Ultimate Collection, the new super deluxe boxed set (which comes out this week) delivers a remixed version of John Lennon’s original 1971 hit album plus a wealth of outtakes, alternates, ...

The new Super Deluxe Edition of Fragile, Yes’ landmark 1971 smash hit album is a wonderful celebration of the band’s ground breaking and majestic fourth release, home to its Top 20 U.S. hit single ...

In 1974, Owsley “Bear” Stanley, Dan Healy, and several others set upon the enormous task of assembling a huge sound system to provide distortion free sound for their employer / client, the Grateful ...

The new 50th anniversary super deluxe edition boxed set celebrating pioneering British hard rock band Deep Purple’s landmark album Machine Head offers deep wonders for hard-core and casual fans alike.

If you read my articles over at HomeTheaterReview.com, you might be hip to the crazy concept called The Bel Air Circuit. If not, it’s basically a somewhat hush-hush club that gives some of the richest ...

Treble, bass, and midrange controls are about as forward-thinking a feature as a buggy whip holder. Here’s why… ...