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Details: Written by: Super User; Category: Photos; Created: 06 January 2016

Companies featured in gallery below: Mark Levinson, GoldenEar Technology, MartinLogan, Anthem, Moon by Simaudio, Nordost, Constellation Audio

Details: Written by: Jeff Fritz; Category: Features; Created: 06 January 2016

Warning: armchair quarterbacking to follow. But hey, as a member of the press, that's what I do.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 05 January 2016

The 2016 International CES -- the world’s largest and most important consumer electronics show -- kicked off on Monday, January 4, in Las Vegas with CES Unveiled, a preview event for press only. Unveiled packed more than 150 exhibitors and roughly 1,200 press into a single ballroom at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. The booths were small, typically just 10' by 10', so Unveiled was mainly a chance for some of the smallest, newest, and most innovative companies to show their stuff. Because most of the press attending Unveiled were from general-interest publications and broadcasters, most of the audio products shown were in mainstream categories such as headphones and wireless speakers.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 19 October 2015

If you’re looking for new high-end stereo gear, the annual CEDIA Expo isn’t the best place to go; the focus at the Expo is always on things like multiroom audio and home theater. But there are always at least a few new stereo amps, preamps, and source devices, and the technology is often more advanced than what you see at, say, Rocky Mountain Audio Fest.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 19 October 2015

The annual CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association) Expo is probably the world's largest showcase for audio products in the high-end home-theater and multiroom-audio fields. From a speaker standpoint, the Expo is dominated by in-wall/in-ceiling, outdoor, and surround-sound speakers, but there are usually several new loudspeakers targeted at audiophiles -- including some elite in-wall models that can give freestanding tower speakers a run for their money.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 06 October 2015

Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, the biggest consumer hi-fi show in North America, wrapped up last Sunday after showcasing numerous new products. I've already covered the headphones and speakers that were introduced at RMAF. In this article, I'll report on some of the most interesting new audio electronics.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 05 October 2015

The annual Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, which ran for three days last week at the Denver Marriott Tech Center hotel, is the biggest and, in my opinion, most important consumer hi-fi show in North America. How big and important? Big and important enough that many manufacturers use it to debut their new products.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 03 October 2015

The annual Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, which started on Friday at the Denver Marriott Tech Center hotel, also includes CanJam, which is probably the biggest headphone show for consumers in North America. This year, CanJam was big enough that it had to expand beyond the large hotel ballroom that usually hosts it into a lobby area outside.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 02 June 2015

I've already filed reports on the most interesting headphones, headphone amps, and speakers I saw last week at T.H.E. Show Newport Beach, Southern California's biggest consumer audio show. This report will cover audio electronics. As with speakers and headphones, there weren't a whole lot of new audio electronics displayed at this regional show, but there were a few, and there were also some that saw their first North American public demonstrations here.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 01 June 2015

T.H.E. Show Newport Beach, Southern California's biggest consumer audio show, took place last week at Hotel Irvine. These regional shows have come into prominence recently as a way for audio enthusiasts to easily hear lots of new gear -- something that's not so easy to do otherwise, as the number of brick-and-mortar audio retailers has decreased. Unlike trade shows such as CES, regional shows are rarely used to launch new products, but they often function as the first public demos of products just coming onto the market.

Details: Written by: Brent Butterworth; Category: Features; Created: 01 June 2015

Last week, the premier Southern California consumer audio show, T.H.E. Show Newport Beach, took place at the Hotel Irvine (yep, in Irvine, not Newport Beach). Like most regional hi-fi shows, T.H.E. Show Newport doesn't see a lot of new product introductions -- but it does include a few, as well as some of the first live public demos of products announced at CES the previous January.

Details: Written by: Super User; Category: Photos; Created: 17 May 2015

Photos taken by Doug Schneider on May 16-17

Details: Written by: Hans Wetzel; Category: Features; Created: 17 May 2015

There's no question that Munich's High End is the biggest and baddest audio show around. The problem is that the majority of the gear on display is expensive. And I mean expensive by audiophile standards. Don't get me wrong. I'm fortunate enough to see massive loudspeakers crafted from exotic materials rattling the jowls of show attendees, and amplifiers that could probably power a city block. I'm guessing these companies will never sell more than a couple dozen of these products. That's fine. But what excites me is an affordable piece of hardware that any audiophile can look at and say, "That . . . that's cool as hell." Well, all of us did a double-take when we heard about the following . . .

Details: Written by: Hans Wetzel; Category: Features; Created: 17 May 2015

Affordability for the truly average audiophile isn't exactly an abundant resource at the High End show. Yes, there is the occasional amplifier or DAC with a retail price under €3000, and a raft of manufacturers from the Far East with loudspeakers for around the same price. On the latter front, we simply don't know enough about these manufacturers, as they often come and go with a blink-and-you'll-miss-them alacrity. So it is that "average" here becomes €30,000 for a pair of full-range loudspeakers, and anything less than that is a welcome surprise. Well, Paradigm of Canada and Piega of Switzerland are bucking that trend with loudspeakers that are both designed and built in their respective countries of origin.

Details: Written by: Super User; Category: Photos; Created: 17 May 2015

Companies featured in gallery below: Vivid Audio, Ayre Acoustics, Aurender, Ambitious Audio Design, Gruensch, Norma Audio Electronics, QAT Audio Technology, Dynaudio, Audia Flight, Anthem, Cyrus Audio, Auralic, Lehmann Audio, Audio-Technica

Details: Written by: Hans Wetzel; Category: Features; Created: 16 May 2015

Headphones are hot, and by all accounts, growing hotter by the year. Thanks, Beats by Dre! Expensive headphone amps always used to be the province of crusty, awkward old men -- no longer.

Details: Written by: Doug Schneider; Category: Photos; Created: 16 May 2015

Photos taken by Doug Schneider on May 14-15

Details: Written by: Super User; Category: Photos; Created: 16 May 2015

Companies featured in gallery below: Absolare, Marten, MSB Technology, CH Precision, Focus Audio, dCS, Beyond Frontiers Audio, Stello, Densen, Piega, Audio Solutions

Details: Written by: Hans Wetzel; Category: Features; Created: 16 May 2015

I adore the idea of a one-box audio solution, irrespective of the arguable sonic compromises that tend to go along with it. I've already written about several integrateds that a run-of-the-mill audiophile such as myself would be able to own, but Gryphon Audio Designs and the Jeff Rowland Design Group have brought to Munich some military-grade audio jewelry that deserves a shout-out.

Details: Written by: Hans Wetzel; Category: Features; Created: 16 May 2015

Digital-to-analog conversion has come a heck of a long way in a couple of years, and while today's offerings, from affordable on up to the cutting edge, are very, very good, the performance envelope continues to be pushed. MSB Technology and dCS are two of the oldest and most respected names in the digital business, and both brought some rather interesting new products to Munich this year.