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Audioguy CEO Jung-Hoon Choi champions the traditional Korean genre of sanjo—a hypnotic, rhythmically accelerating solo form—as the ultimate system test and spiritual reset, captured in stunning resolution on his label’s audiophile-grade recordings.
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Michael Fremer reflects candidly with Gilles Laferriere on receiving a surprise Lifetime Achievement Award at Montreal Audiofest, critiquing exhibitors’ setups, and detailing his emotional departure from Stereophile after building AnalogPlanet and championing vinyl for decades.
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Trent Suggs reveals how Audio Research’s Certified Pre-Owned program boosts customer loyalty and resale value, while teasing major product launches and reaffirming the company’s uncompromising focus on sonic perfection and sustainability.
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MoFi’s 45rpm reissue of Jeff Beck’s Truth delivers seismic bass and analogue warmth that outshines many rock classics; released just before Zep’s debut, it remains a blues-rock benchmark for sound and influence.
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Acora Acoustics’ founder Val Cora shares how his love for both stone and sound led to creating the granite-bodied VRC speaker—earning acclaim at shows for their transcendent sonics and redefining what speaker cabinets can achieve.
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From Acora’s granite giants to Endow’s space-age arrays, Mike Harkins captures the innovation and immersive sound at Florida Audio Expo 2023, where 77 exhibits showcased audio’s finest and boldest in Tampa’s warmth.
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Paul Bowes dives deep into the invisible threats to audio purity—EMI, phase distortion, and vibration—offering hands-on tweaks, from copper shielding to Tranquility PODs, to extract maximum musical fidelity from your hi-fi system.
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Montreal’s Pink Floyd Exhibition dazzles with over 350 artifacts, revealing stories behind the band’s evolution—from Waters’s schoolyard traumas to DSOTM’s breakthrough—while celebrating the enduring radical spirit that defined their sound.
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Trent Suggs of Audio Research defends hi-fi’s future, citing surging interest from younger listeners and the runaway success of the $5K I/50 amp. With expansion plans underway, he’s betting on loyalty built early.
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JJ ditched vinyl for digital ease, but it’s his careful speaker setup, Anthem room correction, and a surprising Ethernet filter from Network Acoustics that helped his compact listening room transcend its limits.
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Now featuring the ground-breaking Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MAT™) Marlboro, NJ – February 7, 2023: Once again, KEF is redefining soundscapes with the latest generation of the R Series HiFi Speakers, now featuring the ground-breaking Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MATTM). The R Series is an exceptional seven-model range engineered to provide superior performance with more detail, deeper…
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After a decade-long journey optimizing his system, Paul Bowes claims 30–40% of sound quality is often lost due to factors like poor source components, room acoustics, EMI, and subpar cables—but that much of it is recoverable.
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To keep his system clean and cool, Mike Harkins tucked away his components in a closet—then turned to AC Infinity’s smart, silent fans to battle heat and boost reliability without sacrificing style or performance.
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In Part 2, Norman Varney dismantles audiophile myths—from misunderstood power upgrades to the flawed logic of spikes—arguing that true sonic improvement begins with the room, not the gear.
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In a gritty Montreal summer, a parking lot attendant’s despair is upended by Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart’s “People Get Ready”—a song that, in one haunting night, turns danger and dead-end dreams into deliverance.
