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This
Weekend: Florida International Audio Expo
2025 Show Report
The
Florida International Audio Expo 2025 takes place from February 21st through
23rd at the Sheraton Tampa Brandon, the event's new, and larger, venue. The Florida International Audio Expo will showcase many floors
filled with exhibit spaces featuring the latest in home and portable audio gear.
You may enjoy an abundance of great sound from mono to stereo and immersive, plus various
exhibit room will feature never before seen new products! Show attendees are the
world's first to experience many of the best new high-performance, hi-resolution
modern audio
products.
With many floors and large conference rooms of demonstrations to explore, attendees can experience
luxurious immersive premium audio electronics, loudspeakers, turntables, and high-end
audio headphones produced by manufacturers from all around the world.
---> Florida International Audio Expo 2025
(FIAE 2025) Show Report.
February
High-End Audio Review Magazine & FIAE Show Report
Our February 2025 Review Magazine continues Enjoy the
Music.com's celebrating 30 years of service to music lovers, audiophiles, and immersive sound enthusiasts alike! We are truly grateful to you, our longstanding loyal readership, and newcomers too. This month we're showcasing historic audio gear reviews and articles during our past 30 years. Be sure to read Roger Skoff's "The Future Of Our Audiophile Hobby Part 1" where he writes about where we've been, where we are today, and the possibilities of where high-end audio is
going in the future. The spectacular Florida International Audio Expo 2025 show begins February 21st and we look forward to seeing you
there! We wish our longtime international friends a prosperous Lunar New Year. As always, in the end what really matters is that
you... enjoy the music!
---> February
High-End Audio Review Magazine
& FIAE 2025 Show Report.
Bristol Hi-Fi Show
2025 Audio/Video/Immersivephile Event
The Bristol Hi-Fi Show, the UK's largest and longest-running hi-fi event, is set to return for its 36th edition from Friday, February 21st to Sunday, February 23rd, 2025. This year's show promises to be an audio lover's dream, featuring exclusive product launches, exciting demos, and special offers. A highlight of Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2025 is the unveiling of new products from various
European manufacturers and distributors. Attendees will have the opportunity to
immerse themselves within the lasted technology is electronics, loudspeakers, cables, accessories and more. This event will also feature exclusive deals and special offers, including half-price entry for students and emergency workers on Sunday after 2pm. Additionally, attendees can enter a competition to win £10,000 worth of hi-fi
equipment.
---> Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2025 Audio / Video /
Immersivephile Event. 
audioXpress' March 2025 Issue
Editorial: How Things Measure
Audio THD With QSPICE
The Analog Engineer Calculator & Pocket Reference
The SL-100 Sound Level Adjuster
Reinforced Speaker Protection
Zoran M. Dukic's High End Tube Amplifiers Designer Tool Box
New Op-Amp For Phono Preamps Part 2
Measuring HDMI Audio
Testing Power Amplifiers
The Early Days of Speaker Acoustics
And Much More!
---> audioXpress March 2025
Issue.
Southwest Audio Fest 2025
Show Report & Information
Now
in their second year, the Southwest Audio Fest
(SWAF) high-end audio show by the dynamic duo Gary Gill (Capital Audiofest) and Lou Hinkley (Pacific
AudioFest / Daedalus Audio) brings magical music to Dallas. SWAF 2025 follows
their sensational success with the popular Pacific Audio Fest event. Attendees
may listen to many of the world's top manufacturers who create a wide variety
of exciting home and portable audio products. Within this expansive Resort
environment, bask in luxurious sounds that caress your ears and bring newfound
meaning to many of the songs you've heard many times in the past. All this and
more within a curated experience filled with fine art and acres of event space.
---> Southwest Audio Fest 2025
Information And Show Report.
The Acoustical Society
Of America & International Congress On Acoustics
The joint ASA / ICA meeting will be held May 18th through 23rd and begin with a Keynote Lecture followed by a full day of technical sessions. The Plenary Session and Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday afternoon followed by the Social. A very special Closing Ceremony will be followed by the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics and the International Symposium on Room Acoustics, which will be merged into the International Symposium on Musical and Room Acoustics (ISMRA). Every effort will be made to schedule contributed abstracts in accordance with author and Organizing Committee preferences. Assignments will consider: a) organizer preference, b) program balance, and c) author preference, and d) Technical Committee
instructions.
---> The Acoustical Society Of America & International Congress On Acoustics.
PureAudioProject Duet 15 Loudspeaker Review
A benchmark performance open baffle loudspeaker.
Review By Dr. Jules Coleman
Featuring the
extraordinary Voxativ Pife full range driver mated to a comparably fast 15"
woofer, the PureAudioProject (PAP) Duet 15 offers the listener an unrivaled,
relaxed, unhurried, yet fully resolved natural and immediate musical experience
that box speakers, for the most part, can only dream of providing, and one that
competitor open baffle designs will struggle, most likely with only limited
success, to equal. These speakers are unassuming, seductive, and enthralling. I
found myself unable to resist falling into the music's awaiting arms for the
better part of the several months I was fortunate enough to have them in my
home. The term 'open baffle' is vague. The standard design consists of a single baffle (think of the 'front baffle' of an enclosed speaker) on which one or more drivers are affixed. All open baffle speakers produced by PureAudioProject are of this sort.
---> PureAudioProject Duet 15 Loudspeaker
Review.
World Premiere Review!
FiiO S15 Music Streamer, Hi-Res DAC, And Bluetooth Receiver Review
The FiiO S15's ease of use and impressive features is matched by its' excellent sound quality.
Review By Tom Lyle
I am a proponent of FiiO's portable digital audio players (DAPs). Since I'm an
audiophile practically obsessed with music but cannot sit in front of my main
audio system to listen to music 24/7, using a DAP is not an option but a must.
I've auditioned many DAPs in the past, and since the spring of 2024, I've been
using FiiO's top-of-the-line M17 "Portable Desktop-Class Music
Player" daily. It has the best sound quality of any sub-$2000 DAP I've ever
heard. When I was offered the opportunity to review
FiiO's new S15 Music Streamer / Hi-Res DAC / Bluetooth Receiver, I immediately said
"yes." After FiiO began marketing their all-in-one desktop
system, the approximately 6" square R7, in early 2023, they decided to
continue developing this type of product and now offer audiophiles and music
lovers the subject of this review: their component-sized S15, a streamer that
can also be used as a preamp, a DAC, and a Bluetooth receiver.
--->
FiiO S15 Music Streamer, Hi-Res DAC, And Bluetooth Receiver Review.
Dan D'Agostino MAS
Momentum Lifestyle Integrated Amplifier w/DAC & Audio Streaming Review
Only for music lovers, because that is the MLife's raison d'être – to enable the listener to revel in
one's love of music.
Review By
Tom Lyle
Many
audiophiles are familiar with the name Dan D'Agostino, by virtue of him being
the founder, CEO, and chief engineer at Krell which he founded in 1980. The
products made by Krell, which included everything from power amplifiers to SACD
players and speakers, were some of the best high-end components available. In
2009 he was ousted by investors that he invited into the company because
they thought the company should change direction. Almost immediately after
leaving Krell, he formed Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems. On a personal note, when I first became
interested in audio in the 1970s the common wisdom at that time, and for quite a
while after that, was that all power amplifiers that measure the same, sound the
same.
--->
Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum Lifestyle Integrated Amplifier w/DAC & Audio Streaming Review.
Oracle Audio Delphi MK VI Turntable Review
A first-class turntable with incredibly advanced power supplies.
Review By
Tom Lyle
My first "real" turntable after years of listening to
crummy mass-market contraptions was an AR ES-1. Mounted on its arm-board was a
Grace tonearm, but I eventually upgraded to a Magnepan model, which as it turned
out was not really an upgrade but merely a move sideways. At the time I was
listening to the AR table in my humble high-end system I was also spending lots
of my audiophile hours with the now legendary Herb Papier, the maker of the
Tri-Planar tonearm. He became, for lack of any other term, my analog and
high-end mentor. Eventually he sold me his original version of the Oracle
Delphi, which was one of his first "modern" high-end tables that he owned, of
which he spent many hours and a good sum of money modifying.
--->
Oracle Audio Delphi MK VI Turntable With SME V Tonearm Review.
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