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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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Designed for your first foray into pure high-fidelity sound. Axpona (Shaumburg, IL) – April 12, 2023 – Focal introduces Theva; a new range of loudspeakers combining pure hi-fi sound, design and accessibility. Renowned for its savoir-faire in sound, the French brand has designed, developed and manufactured the six-model range to span the spectrum of Hi-Fi…
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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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New high-end Roon Powered Streamer/DAC/Preamplifier New York, March 16, 2023 – The new Brooklyn Bridge II Roon Core is a new high-end Roon Powered Streamer/DAC/Preamplifier. The device combines a Roon Core server, network streamer, exceptional DAC and preamplifier with phono MM MC input, and a headphone amplifier, in a single unit. It allows users to…
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SACD/CD/DAC player supports the most advanced file formats BALLSTON SPA, New York, March 2023 – “This is a transformational period in digital audio, and the new D-07X digital player is at the cutting edge,” said Jeff Sigmund, president of Luxman America. The player supports MQA-CDs, MQA files, 32-bit/768 kHz PCM, 22.4 MHz DSD, conventional USB…
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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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Robert Schryer recounts the Canadian launch of Esoteric’s Grandioso M1X monoblocks, where Focal Scala Utopia speakers and jaw-dropping dynamics delivered a “grandioso” performance marked by explosive realism and lush musicality.
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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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BMG & THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES THE NEXT RELEASE IN THE MONTREUX YEARS SERIES. A COLLECTION OF MICHEL PETRUCCIANI’S FINEST PERFORMANCES AT THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL FROM 1990 – 1998. PRE-ORDER LONDON, WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 2023 – BMG and The Montreux Jazz Festival have today announced the release of “Michel Petrucciani: The Montreux Years”…
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After much speculation as to when or, even, will it?, the popular hi-res streaming platform from France, Qobuz, has announced it will be available throughout Canada starting in May of this year. All I can say to that, considering Qobuz was launched in 2007 and is currently available in 25 countries, including the US since…
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MoFi’s remaster of Iron Butterfly’s acid rock landmark “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” breathes new life into the 1968 classic, delivering thunderous bass, refined detail, and an intimacy lost in reverb-heavy earlier pressings.
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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.
