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From childhood 78s on a Nebraska farm to high-end speakers decades later, Lawrence Schenbeck’s lifelong journey with music and gear shows how deep listening—and deeper friendships—make the audiophile pursuit truly meaningful.
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Skeptical of audio’s placebo effect, Jonson Lee tested AGD Productions’ class-D Audion amps—disguised as glowing tubes—and found their stunning design inseparable from their sonic magic, both subtly shaping the listening experience.
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Prices listed in CA$. There are few exhibits at an audio show that immediately elicit a sense of prestigious luxury. Wynn Audio, which has Swarovski-style jewelry cases displaying some of the highest quality audio products, had definitely one of those exhibits. The company had two systems on active demo this year. Wynn of Wynn Audio…
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Prices listed in CA$. Another room that served up incredible sound was that of retailer Bliss Acoustics, whose demo included a J.Sikora Reference turntable ($64,500) fitted with a KV Max 9″ tonearm ($16,450) and Nagra Reference cartridge ($24,500), a Nagra Classic preamplifer ($24,000), a Nagra Classic phono stage ($26,000), a Gryphon Essence stereo amplifier ($32,480),…
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From crafting radios at 15 to redefining high-fidelity audio with the Klipschorn, Paul W. Klipsch’s century-spanning legacy fused military precision, engineering genius, and musical passion into a revolution that still echoes in modern hi-fi.
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Prices listed in CA$. When owner of retailer EQ Audio Video Ed O’herlihy told me he and his team had painstakingly set up the Focal Grande Utopias EM EVO ($359,998) better than they’d ever been set up at a show, I believed him. Why? Because I recognized that glint of confidence in his eye that…
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Prices listed in CA$ except where otherwise noted. Some demos blow away my expectations with their sound, and the Charisma room fell into that category. Aside from the fact Charisma Audio wasn’t well known to me, their speakers being demoed looked diminutive, so I expected sound to come out of them in, shall we say,…
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Prices listed in CA$. Some systems sound so effortlessly musical, so capable of preserving the music’s essence and soul, that while listening to them I tell myself that I’d be happy living with such a system for a very long time. Accordingly, I tell myself that this is my type of system, this is the…
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Fed up with hype and high prices, this reviewer bought Cambridge Audio’s MXN10 with their own cash—and found a compact streamer that nails neutrality, boasts stellar software, and delivers serious value under £400.
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Caught between honesty and harmony, Guild president Jim Tonne navigates tricky audio evaluations and acoustics advice with wit, a spectrum analyzer, and a firm belief in room treatment—despite the inevitable aesthetic compromises.
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Reflecting on how we hear music, this Copper Magazine piece explores selective listening—from favoring lyrics or solos to feeling sound with the whole body—and highlights Evelyn Glennie’s deaf-but-deep approach to truly experiencing music.
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Welcome to my series Treasures from the Vinyl Vault. In it, I will feature select gems from my approximately 12,000 ever-growing vinyl collection, accumulated over a 45-year period and counting.
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Tucked away in the countryside, Don Corby’s audio shop thrives on trust, passion, and analog gear. Robert Schryer visits Corby’s Audio, where woodcraft meets tube amps and turntables sing in a forest-framed retreat.
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Reflecting on his first Fillmore East show in 1968, Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French recalls how Canned Heat’s Henry Vestine provided the inspiration he needed—a blue-collar blues guitarist whose tone and style were accessible enough to emulate and transformative for a budding player.
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Two years after downsizing seemed inevitable, Tom Gibbs finds himself retired, mortgage-free, and surrounded by two dream audio rooms—one digital, one analog—where Maggies, KLH Fives, and top-tier gear turn every listen into an event.
