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This 2025 holiday gift guide charges through sub-$400 audiophile gems, spotlighting beryllium-kissed headphones, Chi-Fi IEM overachievers and Andrew Jones–tuned speakers, sketching a lineup that sounds far pricier than its festive price ceiling.
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Here are a few more tasty nuggets of wisdom about playing in a rock band from someone who’s been there: Frank Doris. This time, Frank highlights the importance of rehearsing—because if you don’t rehearse, you’re gonna suck.
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In this excerpt from Paul McGowan’s The Audiophile’s Guide, overlooked spaces like basements and garages become ideal listening rooms through smart, minimal upgrades—proving great sound starts with practicality, not perfection.
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Audiofest photographer Joseph Greenham reflects on his experience at the Toronto Audiofest 2025.
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Robert Schryer closes out his Toronto Audiofest coverage with some final notes and takeaways.
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Altitudo showcased Audiovector’s R8 Arrete and Audio Physics Avanti speakers, driven by Trilogy electronics, with standout musicality and vivid imaging.
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MACO’s Macaria open-baffles and Whammerdyne’s 2A3 monoblocks delivered ultra-transparent, tactile sound with striking vocal intimacy.
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Robert Schryer wraps his interview with Dutch & Dutch’s Jannis Dossis and Martijn Mensink, uncovering bold plans for a smaller speaker—and finds the 8c system so good, it might just end his gear-chasing days.
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Tom Gibbs discovers fabulous new power conditioning gear from Vera-Fi Audio and a 300B amp for under $1K he can’t stop listening to.
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Frank Doris takes a look at the revealing new book, Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios, which has some real rock and roll stories.
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PMA’s Michel Plante and Robert Schryer revisit Pascal Ravach’s remarkable audio journey, which began with a childhood accident that severely affected his eyesight, continued through a European consulting career, and culminated in founding Montreal’s Mutine, where Ravach’s Zen-inspired listening rooms champion synergy, natural sound, and holistic system harmony.
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Jonson Lee finds this year’s SoCal T.H.E. Show more varied than ever, with standout rooms from Legacy, Audio Note, and Rockport—plus a surprising mix of excellence from Popori, Boenicke, and SVS.
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Mitsubishi’s Diatone D-160, a 1.5-ton subwoofer from the 1980s, defied all logic with a 63-inch carbon-fiber cone and a 400-kilogram field coil, turning every note into a seismic event.
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Writer Mike Harkins searches for audio gems at the Lone Star Audio Fest 2025 and digs up a saddlebag full of them.
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Bruno Putzeys concludes his two-part series that explains why active speakers are inherently better than passive ones.
