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  • How to Correctly Integrate Subwoofers Into a Stereo System, Part 3

    Kevin Fielding wraps up his subwoofer integration series by tackling time alignment and five crossover strategiesโ€”ultimately finding that running speakers full range with a gentle subwoofer slope yields the most musically satisfying results.

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  • Impex Reissues the Bossa Nova Jazz Classicย Getz/Gilbertoย (and an Interview With Nick Getz and Abey Fonn)

    Frank Doris interviews Nick Getz, son of sax legend Stan Getz, and Abey Fonn of Impex Records, about the new Getz/Gilberto LP reissue of the bossa nova classic.

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  • Review: PS Audio AirLens Network Streamer

    The PS Audio AirLens Network Streamer is building a huge following. This review explains why.

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  • Reviewedโ€”Audiophile Analog Collection Vol.2

    “Not only is this double-LP compilation outstanding in sound, it is also excellent musically and performance-wiseโ€”surprisingly so, perhaps, given the poor history of audiophile-oriented releases.”

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  • A Piano, A Microphone, and Prince: The Intimate Finale of a Music Icon

    On a balmy evening on April 14, 2016, at Atlantaโ€™s Fox Theatre, an iconic musician approached the piano in what would become his final public performance. Prince, renowned for his electrifying full-band concerts, chose this time to captivate his audience with a stark, powerful setting of just โ€œPiano & A Microphone.โ€ This tour stripped his…

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  • Should You Get a Surround Sound System?

    Once dismissed as a passing fad, surround sound is staging a comebackโ€”with streaming giants offering immersive content and home tech better than ever, it may finally be time to rejoin the multichannel revolution.

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  • MAF 2024: Villeneuve Audio Vidรฉo, Marchand Audio Vidรฉo / Fyne Audio, Luxman, AudioQuest

    Prices listed in CA$. If there had been an award given out at the Audiofest for โ€œMost Vintage-Looking Componentโ€, the Fyne Classic Fifteen speakers ($50,000/pr) in the Villeneuve Audio Vidรฉo / Marchand Audio Vidรฉo room probably would have won it. The design is a point-source system whereby a bass/midrange cone is coupled to a high…

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  • MAF 2024: Absolu par Centre Hi-Fi / Technics

    Prices listed in CA$. I have fond memories of the Technics brand name. My dadโ€™s very first turntable was the Technics SL-QX300โ€”the first turntable I ever touched. As a kid seeing a record player for the first time, I was mesmerized by this foreign device and intrigued by how it was able to make sound.…

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  • MAF 2024: Studio Economik / Kii, Wattson Audio

    Prices listed in CA$. This was probably the most different room from the others of the entire show. There was no stack of electronics in sight, just a small Wattson Audio Emerson Digital network streamer ($2095) connected to all-in-one speakers outfitted with every signal input you can imagine. One component made up 90% of the…

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  • MAF 2024: Corby’s Audio / Coherent Audio, Baetis Audio, Saturn Audio, Tough Nut Audio, Allnic

    Prices listed in CA$. As always when I enter an audio showroom, my eyes fall first on the speakers, as they did in the Corbyโ€™s Audio room. And the speakers there looked stunning. I would put them in my living room even if they made no sound. But they did make a sound, a glorious…

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  • Totem Acoustic introduces the LOON

    For nearly four decades, Totem Acoustic has been a world leader in combining the utmost in spatial restitution and maintaining an expansive, musically dynamic and involving sound field. This accurate, three-dimensional expansiveness and musical liquidity can be augmented via a smaller chassis design as we have proven through our storied history. The new Totemย LOONย as its…

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  • MAF 2024: Essentia Technology / Q Acoustics, Norma Audio, Wattson Audio, QED

    Prices listed in CA$. The two most common questions Essentia Technologyโ€™s Scott Pugh received from visitors who heard the distributorโ€™s demo when I was there were: 1) Is there a sub?, and, 2) Are the prices in US dollars? The answer to both was noโ€”no sub, and prices were in Canadian dollars. It was one…

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  • MAF 2024: Lenbrook Americas / PSB Speakers, NAD, IsoAcoustics, AudioQuest

    Prices listed in CA$. Filling up a humongous room is always a challenge for an audio system. And Lenbrookโ€™s was probably the largest room Iโ€™dย everย seen atย an audio show. The PSB Synchrony T800 Premium loudspeakers ($16,999/pr) looked tiny against the front wall even though they werenโ€™t small. They were placed so wide apart you could have…

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  • MAF 2024: Emotiva

    Prices listed in US$. When I looked at the price sheet taped on the wall in the Emotiva room, I blinked. I couldnโ€™t believe my eyes. An audio show doesnโ€™t showcase entire sound systems for $4796. But that was the total cost of the system in the Emotiva room (excluding the cables). The all-Emotiva system…

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  • Bowers & Wilkins introduces the 700 S3 Signature

    “The new 702 S3 Signature floorstanding loudspeaker further refines and advances the already exceptional 702 S3, introducing all-new levels of insight and realism that put it in a class of its own.”

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