Endow Audio T35 Point-Array
Loudspeakers Review
Exceptionally well made with impressive on- and off-axis sound.
Review By Brett Rudolph
Last month I
had the fortune of being asked to review new speakers from Endow, which made
their debut at the Florida Audio Expo
2020. Endow Audio's T35s loudspeakers,
according to the company, represents the same quality at a substantially reduced
price without cutting corners. Indeed, they are certainly visually a sight to
behold.... The engineering itself was fascinating; Endow utilized
multiple drivers in various phases and closed baffle in a very non-trivial
design to allow for a very expansive off-axis listening field.
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Endow Audio T35 Point-Array Loudspeakers Review.
Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Floorstanding
Loudspeaker Review
Sonus Faber's Il Cremonese speakers tell a story, and the more you listen, the more you not only get lost in the music, you appreciate and admire both in the story and the telling of it.
Review By Jules Coleman
If there is
anything obvious about obvious truths, it is their truth. Nothing else about
them need be, and often nothing else is. Moreover, some obvious truths are
obvious only in retrospect. Obvious truths – truisms – can be revealing,
insightful and even important. Take what is certainly one of audio's most obvious truisms: an audio system is,
after all, a system! Patently obvious? Yes. Uninteresting or unimportant?
Hardly!
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Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Floorstanding Loudspeaker Review.
Australian
Hi-Fi March / April 2024
Editorial: New Hi-Fi Gear Is Pushing The Boundaries
Sonus Faber Duetto Stereo Speaker System
Dellichord FR6 Loudspeakers
DS Audio DS 003 Optical Cartridge
Richter Wizard Series 6Plus Loudspeakers
Australian Hi-Fi Show 2024 Guide
History of Portable Audio: Part 4
Podcasts for Music Lovers
Top Picks And Reissues
And Much More!
---> Australian Hi-Fi March / April 2024.
Pacific Audio Fest 2024
Show
Report
Experience the best in premium audio
gear at Seattle's PAF 2023 show.
The Pacific Audio Fest (PAF) returns to Seattle for
their third great year! From September 6th through 8th, you can experience the very best in high-performance high-end audiophile gear at the biggest and best audio show on the Northwest coast of the USA! With
~100 exhibition rooms showcasing great audio gear, there will be millions of
dollars is audio gear, from very reasonably priced to cost-no-object, to hear and enjoy.
Taking place at the Doubletree-Hilton Sea-Tac / Seattle, PAF is the USA's very best Northwestern premium audio
event. Scheduled for the Pacific Audio Fest 2024 is live music on Friday and Saturday nights, with NW regional wine and beer tastings, and ~100 rooms of quality audio, Marketplace, Record Fair, HeadZone and much more!
---> Pacific Audio Fest 2024 Show Report.
audioXpress' May 2024 Issue
Editorial: No Truth. Just Joy.
The Neurochrome Story
Open-Loop Complementary Follower & An Amp Stage
A High-Performance 60-Watt Class A Amplifier Part 2
Sustainable Acoustical Absorption
Glass Audio: The TubeSociety 2022 OTL Hybrid Tube Amp
A Low-Feedback Triode Amp With Zero Output Impedance Part 1
Tube Output Power
Optimizing Single-Stage Dual-Triode Totem Pole Drivers
And Much More!
---> audioXpress' May 2024 Issue.
AXPONA 2024 Show Report
Audio Expo North
America (AXPONA) 2024 three-day experience featured a multitude of floors,
with a total of approximately 200 listening rooms. Special showcases include the
Expo Hall featuring The Record Fair, The Ear Gear Experience, and a variety of seminars. Whether you're a
very serious audiophile, a newcomer to high-end audio or simply a music lover, you found everything you need to immerse yourself in your favorite
sounds. The Ear Gear Experience is the place to go to find everything from open-back, closed-back, in-ear headphones and accessories, as well as cables DACs and players. You can also shop audio accessories, turntables, cables and more in the Expo Hall. Plus find new and vintage vinyl in AXPONA's own Record Fair.
---> AXPONA 2024 High-End Audio Show
Report.
Montréal Audiofest 2024 Show
Report
Canada's Montréal Audiofest 2024 Event Coverage
The Salon Audio Montreal Audiofest
2024, scheduled from March 22nd through 24th, will bring together over 5000 visitors who
desire seeing, touching, and listening to over 300 brands of high-performance audio products
all under one roof. As the largest show in Canada, you may experience
the very best audio/video industry manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in Canada.
Within each listening room, exhibitors are elated to share their passion for music with you by demonstrating some of the world's best sound systems from
$5000 to $500,000. Montréal Audiofest is celebrating its 35th edition
in 2024 and remains the must-attend event for audiophiles and music lovers.
---> Montréal Audiofest 2024 Show
Report.
Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Hi-Fi Show
Report
SWAF's 2024 high-performance premium audio event coverage.
The Southwest Audio Fest
(SWAF) arises from the partnership of Gary Gill (Capital Audiofest) and Lou Hinkley (Pacific
AudioFest / Daedalus Audio) and their success with the Pacific Audio Fest event, which is destined to be an annual event for high-end audio in the Pacific Northwest serving the entire Pacific
region. We are pleased to announce a new industry-operated show for another underserved part of the
country... the Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas in Texas.
The show promoters worked for over two years to secure a contract with an amazing event hotel,
which is very safe, family friendly, and great weather in March too!
Both Gary Gill and Lou Hinkley are confident that this show will grow and the Anatole has all the room
a premium audio event needs.
---> Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Hi-Fi Show
Report.
How To Buy A Violin... Or Something Like
That
Laying out money for music.
Article
By Roger Skoff
It's
only been about a century since, if you wanted to hear music, you either had to
play or sing it yourself or get somebody else to do it for you. Sure, the first
music recording was made back in 1860, by a Frenchman, Edouard-Leon Scott de
Martinville, and, sure, the phonograph (but not in a form we'd recognize it
today) was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison, but it wasn't until 1925 that
electrical recording came along and made buying a record for an evening of
listening a practical reality. And it wasn't until the 1940s that even any
attempt was made to record and reproduce what we now call "High Fidelity" sound.
Before then, if you wanted to listen to music at home, you
either had to make it yourself or invite people over to make it for or with you.
--->
How To Buy A Violin... Or Something Like That.
Avantgarde Acoustic UNO SD Hornspeaker Review
The luckiest I've ever felt was when reviewing the UNO SD speakers.
Review By Tom Lyle
In the mid to late 1990s, I heard
a pair of Avantgarde Acoustic horn loudspeakers (hornspeaker) for the first time at a local high-end audio
showroom. I don’t remember the model of the speakers I was hearing, but I do
recall that they were powered by a pair of Single-Ended Triode (SET) monoblock
amplifiers. I assumed that these amps were a perfect match for these sensitive
speakers. Sadly, I was not impressed with what I heard that day. The
speaker's biggest sin was an exaggerated midrange, epitomizing the "cupped
hands" sound. Fast-forward to 2024, when I was offered a pair of Avantgarde
UNO SDs for review in Enjoy the Music.com. I was skeptical, fearing I
would experience something similar to what I had heard at that local dealer many
years ago. Before these speakers arrived, I shared my experience with
Avantgarde's North American distributor, American Sound of Canada, about my
experience with their horn speakers.
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Avantgarde Acoustic UNO SD Hornspeaker Review.
RSX Benchmark Series Cables Review
You owe it to yourself to try these out.
Review By Brett Rudolph
It's
always an experience when you get the opportunity to review cables. They take a
while to break in, and if they do their job correctly, they should disappear,
leaving you with the ultimate playback system, where everything is perfect. In
reality, of course, no playback system can be perfect — the components and
speakers you use always impact the quality of the sound you hear. However, what
people fail to realize is that, although sometimes subtly, the cables you use
can and usually do impact the sound, as well. It seems like yesterday, but in reality, it was a few months
ago when I first spoke to Roger Skoff, the designer and owner of RSX cables.
Roger was involved in cable design for quite several years. The first brand of
cables he launched was XLO, the brand whose most famous ad was a two-page spread
showing just a loop of cable (no connectors) and, in small type, just the words:
Looks like no other, sounds like no other, sounds like nothing at all.
--->
RSX Benchmark Series Cables Review.
Eminent Technology LFT8c Loudspeaker Review
Dipole done well.
Review By Jules Coleman
If you are not familiar with Bruce Thigpen,
it's time you were. Bruce has been among the more creative and innovative designers in the audio industry over the past forty years. He began his career by working on what was to become the Infinity turntable, which he followed with the classic and much-admired ET 2 linear tracking tonearm (parts and updates are still available for the model 1, ET-2 and ET- 2.5), before turning his attention to magnetic planar loudspeakers. Beginning with the full-range planar LFT3, he ultimately shifted focus to hybrid designs featuring planar mid and high-frequency drivers mated with traditional cone drivers to handle the lower frequencies. The shift in focus led to the development of the LFT-8 introduced in 1989 and then widely distributed beginning in 1990, the transformative version of which, LFT-8c, is the subject of this
review.
--->
Eminent Technology LFT8c Loudspeaker Review.
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