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Capital Audiofest 2025
Audiophile Show Expands
Capital Audiofest (CAF) 2025 is set to take place from November 14th to 16th at the Hilton Rockville in Maryland, continuing its legacy as the East
Coast's largest and most beloved high-end audio show. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, offering three full days of immersive listening experiences, gear demos, and community engagement. Founded in 2010 by Gary Gill, CAF has grown from a grassroots gathering into a cornerstone of the North American audiophile calendar, drawing enthusiasts, engineers, and manufacturers from across the globe. The 2025 edition promises to uphold its reputation for warmth and accessibility, with a family-friendly atmosphere and a strong emphasis on music appreciation. Music lovers will enjoy
a CAF record-breaking ~150 listening rooms, each tailored by exhibitors to showcase their latest innovations in audio reproduction. Attendees can expect to audition everything from cost-no-object reference systems to clever budget-friendly setups, with a wide range of analog and digital front
ends.
---> Capital Audiofest 2025 Audiophile Show Expands.
Date Change: HIGH END 2026 From June 4th
To 7th
HIGH END 2026 represents the biggest high-end audiophile
show's 40-year history: after more than two decades in Munich's MOC, and Frankfurt before that, the world-leading high-fidelity audio event migrates East to the Austria Center Vienna (ACV). The
venue's 26,000 m² of newly refurbished, digitally future-proof exhibit space spans multiple levels and purpose-built halls, giving brands everything from intimate listening rooms to cavernous product-launch stages. The High End Society picked Vienna precisely because the
ACV's modern acoustics, fiber backbone and modular floorplan let manufacturers push experiential demos far beyond the limitations of
Munich's hotel-style cabins—think full Dolby Atmos suites, immersive headphone
quiet zones, car-audio test rides inside the complex, plus many spaces for home audiophile stereo sound systems. The relocation also taps into
Vienna's musical halo: attendees can spend the evening at the Musikverein, then audition the same Mahler symphony on an immersive home audio rig the next morning.
---> Date Change: HIGH END 2026 From June 4th To 7th. 
audioXpress' July 2025 Issue
Editorial: Mixed Senses And Audio Vocabulary
Illusonic IAP 8 Advanced Audio Processor And Preamplifier
Burkhard Vogel Extends Valuable Knowledge On Op-Amps
Beat Tracking Explained
Linearizing Microphones CORE+ By DPA
A Microacoustics Modeling Primer Part 1
Audio Amplifier Power Measurement
Low Frequency, Very Low Frequency, And Infrasonic Annoyance
Instrument Amplifier Effects Loops
And Much More!
---> audioXpress July 2025
Issue.
Roger Daltrey Has Been Knighted By King Charles III
Sir Roger Daltrey, the 81-year-old co-founder and powerhouse voice of The Who, has been knighted in King Charles
III's 2025 Birthday Honors list. The accolade caps more than six decades of boundary-shattering rock—from the microphone-lassoing ferocity of
"My Generation" to the operatic ambition of Tommy—and places Daltrey alongside fellow honorees such as Steve Winwood and David Beckham as cultural titans formally recognized for shaping modern
Britain's artistic identity. The monarch's citation praises not only
Daltrey's musical legacy but his tireless philanthropy: as driving force behind the Teenage Cancer Trust he has helped raise over £36 million (about $48 million) and fund 28 specialist cancer units across UK hospitals. Accepting the honor, Daltrey called it
"a dream come true" and dedicated the knighthood to the "unsung heroes" who fuel the
charity's work, underscoring how rock-and-roll bravado can translate into life-changing support for young
patients. Beyond the pageantry of Buckingham Palace, Daltrey's elevation to
"Sir" crystallizes a life arc that began in a West London council
flat....
---> The Who's Roger Daltrey Has Been Knighted By King Charles III. 
audioXpress' 2025 Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook
The freshly minted 2025 Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook (LIS)
by audioXpress packs the same exhaustive supplier, vendor, and service-provider listings that make it the audio
sector's go-to rolodex, but layers on even more editorial firepower for an era when hedging bets and diversifying supply chains feel existential. The book opens with J.
Martins' sweeping State of the Speaker Industry report, tracing last
year's bull run through Q3 2024. Dan Digre, who has captained MISCO Speakers for 40+ years, dissects what
"resilience" really looks like for a U.S. loudspeaker manufacturer with Asian operations, offering granular anecdotes on dual-sourcing, component localization, and the chess game of logistics.
Audio Engineering Society ( AES) president Gary Gottlieb zooms out, revisiting the
Society's 75-year history of standards-setting (think balanced lines, loudness metering, immersive-audio reference curves) and arguing that
today's fractured, app-centric ecosystem needs an even stronger AES backbone. Meanwhile, WiSA Association chief Tony Ostrom maps the future living
room....
---> audioXpress' 2025 Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook.
HIGH END 2025 Munich Audiophile
Show Report
The HIGH END 2025
audiophile / immersivephile event is an internationally renowned audio exhibition that will take place from May 15 to May 18, 2025, at the
M.O.C. Event Center in Munich, Germany. This event is a must-visit for anyone passionate about high-quality audio technology, as it brings together
manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and in open to consumers from over 40
countries. The HIGH END 2025 exhibition will feature hundreds of exhibitors showcasing their latest innovations in
consumer electronics technology, including hi-fi audio, high-end video, home theater, and bespoke entertainment
solutions for millionaires and billionaires alike. Visitors can expect to experience groundbreaking trends, technological advances, and exclusive world
premieres. This year's brand ambassador is the Norwegian singer Anette Askvik, who embodies the event's motto "Passion for Music". Her hypnotic sound and deep emotion perfectly reflect the passion for promoting audio technology that the HIGH END
2025 exhibition aims to convey.
---> Enjoy the
Music.com's HIGH END 2025 Audiophile Show Report.
Audiophiles: Can There Be Too Many Notes?
Not just listening, but truly hearing the music.
Article
By Roger Skoff
Do you remember the
part in the movie Amadeus where Emperor Joseph II, his Kapellmeister,
and other music advisory staff, including Salieri, have just heard a part of
Mozart's latest work, are less than pleased with it, and the emperor declares
that it "has too many notes"? Mozart is shocked and amazed, and, to everyone's horror,
openly disagrees with the emperor and his sycophants, saying, instead, that
there are precisely as many notes as there needs to be. That was about an opera, The
Abduction From The Seraglio, but
the same thing could be said of any piece of music – there are neither more
nor fewer notes than there needs to be to communicate what the composer is
trying to say. I remember hearing a lecture many years ago about Beethoven,
where the speaker was analyzing one of the great Beethoven symphonies, note by
note, phrase by phrase, and showing that even that great and complex work was
composed of just a few simple themes and leitmotifs, layered, interwoven,
repeated, inverted, changed in key, and passed from one instrument or
instrumental group to another.....
--->
Audiophiles: Can There Be Too Many Notes.
Raidho X2.6 Floorstanding Loudspeaker Review
Unlocking the enchanting potential of sonic art.
Review By Tom Lyle
The subject of this review, the Raidho X2.6
floorstanding loudspeaker, is from their newer "X" Series. In its
literature, Raidho states that the "X" in this series moniker denotes
"eXtreme performance for the price." Yes, their X series features four
models that, on average, are priced lower than most of Raidho's other models.
Even though these four models in Raidho's X series speakers might have been
built to a price point, I couldn't find anything about their X.2 — including
their level of technological precision, fit and finish, not to mention their
sound quality — that would indicate any cost-cutting measures. On their website, Raidho mentions that the goals of the X2.6
are the same as those of all their loudspeakers, which include low noise and
coloration, a "dramatic, energetic" sound with a "vast
soundstage," and a detailed sound that doesn't induce fatigue, among other
traits. $21,000 might be a low price for a pair of Raidho speakers, but still, any audiophile who spends this amount of money should demand a certain level of quality.
--->
Raidho X2.6 Floorstanding Loudspeaker Review.
World Premiere Review!
Defining Audio Excellence: Avantgarde Acoustic Colibri C2 Hornspeaker And C18 Subwoofer Review
Experience sonic brilliance — where dreams sometimes do come true.
Review By Paul Schumann
Let's
go back in time a few years ago. It was January 2000, so that's over 25(!) years
ago. The world had survived the
Y2K crisis. Having recently purchased a couple of issues of Sound Practices,
then listening to an amazing DIY system, was starting to catch SET
(Singe-Ended Triode) fever. I was
also following an audio review website that focused quite heavily on SET gear
and high-sensitivity loudspeakers to use with it. That website was, of course, Enjoy the Music.com.
That January back in 2000 our Creative Director, Steven R Rochlin, posted a review of the
then new Avantgarde Acoustic Uno hornspeakers. They had big blue horns and looked unlike any
loudspeaker
I had ever seen. You could tell from Steven's Avantgarde Acoustic Uno review that they were something very
special. After reading it, I had a bad case of audio envy. However, there was
also family with three young children then, so extra funds were diverted to more
noble causes. Realistically, even if I had the funds, the Unos were way too big
for my small living room. But we all have our silly little pipe dreams, don't we?
--->
Avantgarde Acoustic Colibri C2 Hornspeaker And C18 Subwoofer Review.
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