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Inside Capital Audiofest 2025: Exclusive Show Report & Latest Gear
New high-end audio trends, top hi-fi gear, plus audiophile insights and
cutting-edge innovations.
Welcome to
Enjoy the Music.com's comprehensive Capital Audiofest 2025 show report. 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. Our Capital Audiofest 2025 show reports will be
online during the event, with very exciting expanded coverage afterwards!
---> Inside Capital Audiofest 2025: Exclusive Show Report & Latest
Gear.
Toronto Audiofest 2025: Complete Show Coverage, Biggest Gear Reveals, And Best Demos
What happened, what to buy, special highlights, plus our best audiophile gear picks!
Toronto Audiofest 2025 Show Report By Rick Becker
The situation with President Donald Trump's tariffs may make purchasing items from Canada far more expensive for
U.S. audiophiles, but the manufacturers and vendors I spoke with do not have
animosity toward U.S. customers. They are keenly aware of what is going on in
the US, perhaps more so than the average American. Having set a personal high-water mark with my
show reports, it has become necessary to restructure my workflow for show
reports and cut back on my coverage. My goal remains to pay homage to every room
with at least a photo, but my writing will focus on the most salient remarks and
the most impressive rooms at the show. I need more time to enjoy my music, and
that's not possible if I'm writing constantly. I listened to many high-end
sound systems at the Toronto Audiofest 2025 and share my impressions, highlighting the Top Tier presentations, and announcing
Enjoy the Music.com's coveted annual Best of Toronto Audiofest 2025 Blue Note
Awards!
---> Toronto Audiofest 2025: Complete Show Coverage, Biggest Gear Reveals, And Best Demos.
UK To Make Reselling Concert Tickets For Profit Illegal
The UK government has announced plans to introduce legislation making it illegal to resell tickets for concerts, sports, theatre, comedy and other live events for more than their original face value, saying the move is designed to protect fans from inflated resale prices and "destroy the operating model of ticket touts". Under the proposed rules, secondary ticketing platforms would have a legal duty to monitor and enforce the cap on resale prices, limits would be placed on platform service fees, and individuals would be barred from selling more tickets than they were originally permitted to buy, measures aimed at curbing bot-driven bulk purchases that feed the secondary market. Government statements accompanying the announcement argued the measures would make resale tickets cheaper on average and return access to events for more fans, estimating collective annual savings for consumers and describing the policy as a
fulfillment of promises to tackle extortionate touting practices.
---> UK To Make Reselling Concert Tickets For Profit Illegal. 
Florida International Audio Expo
In February 2026
The
eighth annual Florida International Audio Expo (FIAE) returns as the Southeast's most eagerly anticipated high-end audio gatherings, bringing together music lovers, audiophiles,
immersivephiles, and industry professionals for a long weekend of listening, discovery, and community.
FIAE show's 2026 edition continues the event's tradition of pairing commercial exhibits with live music and educational programming to give visitors both demonstrable gear experiences and context for what they
hear. From Friday through Sunday, February 20th through 22nd (2026) at the Sheraton Tampa Brandon Hotel, ticketing options include single-day and multi-day passes to suit casual visitors, dedicated
musicphiles, and audiophiles / immersivephiles alike. Organizer statements and press coverage emphasize that the 2026 event marks the
Expo's eighth annual run, highlighting steady growth in both exhibitor participation and room counts; this expansion has translated into more than 100
exciting exhibit spaces that let music lovers compare loudspeakers, electronics, vinyl
LP turntable systems, stereo / immersive headphones, cabling, and tweaks under real listening
conditions.
---> Florida International Audio Expo
In February 2026.
audioXpress'
December 2025 Issue
Editorial: We Don't Want You To Miss Out
Breaking Boundaries In Wireless Audio
Enhancing Critical Communications: AI Voice Processing
A Guide For Developers Developing And Testing Bluetooth
Distributed Mode Loudspeaker Technology And "Invisible Speakers"
Cleer ARC 3 Open Wireless Earbuds With Noise Cancelling
Total Dynamic Distortion
Danville Signal dspNexus 2/8 Part 2—Listening Experiences
Why DIY When You Can Buy?
And Much More!
---> audioXpress December 2025
Issue.
Hi-Fi+ November 2025 High-End
Audio Magazine
Editorial: Time Travelling Via Music
Magico S2 Floorstanding Loudspeaker
Acoustic Energy AE1 40th Anniversary Stand-Mount Loudspeaker
Burmester 232 Integrated Amplifier
Transrotor Bellini TMD, TRA 9 And Figaro Turntable, Arm, & MC Cartridge
Ensemble Massimo Fonobrio Phono Stage
Rotel DX-5 Integrated Amplifier
Revival Audio Sprint 3 Stand-Mount Loudspeaker
Ruark Audio R610 Integrated Music System
REL S/850 Subwoofer
...And Much More!
---> Hi-Fi+'s
November 2025 High-End Audio Magazine.
Mister Stokowski! Mister
Stokowski!
Let's talk about movies, classical music, and high-fidelity home audio.
Article
By Roger Skoff
In the 1940 Disney film, Fantasia, Mickey Mouse, still in costume from his
performance as Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, runs up to
Conductor, Leopold Stokowski, and, full of admiration, pulls on Stokowski's
coat, says "Mr. Stokowski! Mr. Stokowski!", whistles to get the great man's
attention, says "My congratulations, sir!" and the exchange continues.... Back in those days, Mickey Mouse was hugely
successful, Stokowski became a popular figure, Fantasia became one of the
all-time classic movies, played, re-played, re-dubbed, and, finally, in 2000,
given a sequel. And classical music was, for at least a while, if not the, at
least a kind of music enjoyed by the masses. (Just a side-note, here, when my daughter was
little, she was quite smitten by Fantasia – which we had on tape and
played at home – and called the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence "The
Sausage's Appendix").
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Mister Stokowski! Mister Stokowski! 
World Premiere Review!
Greater Emotional Connection: Audience FrontRow Reserve PowerChords Review
Going deeper into the inner details of the music you love.
Review By Rick Becker
The invitation
for Enjoy the Music.com to review a new Audience Front Row Reserve
powerChord from John McDonald, President of Audience AV, came as a complete
surprise offer out of the blue. At $7500 each (1.5-meter), they would be two levels above the $2500
Synergistic Research power cords that grace most of my components. It would be
an adventure into uncharted territory for me, were it not for the Furutech
Project V1 Power Cable at $10,000, which came bundled with their excellent
Furutech NCF Power Vault power conditioner I had recently reviewed. I accepted John's offer reluctantly because I wasn't convinced
that power cords of that price would make a commensurate improvement. I also
wasn't sure a single power cord would enable me to reach a valid conclusion. In
the past, Synergistic Research had supplied enough power cords to feed my system
from source to power amp. In the lower to moderate price ranges, the
improvements were easily recognized and justified the increased costs.
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Greater Emotional Connection: Audience FrontRow Reserve PowerChords Review.
World Premiere Review!
Big Sound, Small Size: Voxativ Hagen2 Tower Loudspeaker Review
Performing the most musical magical trick!
Review By Paul Schumann
Growing
up, I had a neighborhood friend who did magic. He was always working on new
illusions to incorporate into his act. Sometimes he had to build an apparatus,
and others were sleight of hand. To start, he would practice the new illusion
for endless hours in front of the mirror. Once the kinks were worked out, he
would try it out in front of some of his neighborhood friends. When he did this,
he added an extra layer of challenge for himself. He would show us how the trick
worked before he performed it. That way, we knew what to look for. He knew he
had mastered the illusion if he could still fool us. He was a master of his
craft, and he still does magic shows for fun. Our audio systems, as ardent readers of Enjoy the Music.com
know, can perform magic tricks. They take music that has been recorded in some
medium, convert it to electrical signals, and turn those signals into vibrations
that we perceive as music.
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Big Sound, Small Size: Voxativ Hagen2 Tower Loudspeaker Review.
The Ultimate Music Majesty: Lindemann Woodnote SOLO Network Player / DAC Review
A glorious reach out and touch sound that invites you to listen more.
Review By Tom Lyle
Lindemann Audio is a German high-end audio company that has
been in operation for over thirty years, just as the 30th anniversary of Enjoy
the Music.com is being celebrated in 2025! In that time, Lindemann became
known for being an innovative company that designed and manufactured
excellent-sounding and well-built digital and other audio products at a
reasonable price. Lindemann produces three series of products, three of which
are digital components, and the other are loudspeakers. Lindemann's Woodnote
series offers two compact-sized components, both of which are minimalist in
design: the SOLO and the COMBO. The SOLO is a streamer / DAC, the COMBO is also
a steamer / DAC, but also contains an internal amplifier in its similarly sized
cabinet. I chose to review Lindemann's Woodnote SOLO rather than their
COMBO because the SOLO will appeal more to audiophiles looking to integrate an
extremely well-built and cleverly designed streamer / DAC into their system.
--->
The Ultimate Music Majesty: Lindemann Woodnote SOLO Network Player / DAC
Review.
Kimber Kable Carbon 8 Interconnects, Carbon 18 XL Speaker
Cables, Ascent Power Cables, And Select Copper USB Cable Review
Mega-transparent, plus satisfying every other trait one would expect.
Review By Tom Lyle
I've often
said that the best way to test audio cable is to rewire one's entire system with
that brand or model. This way one will be able to hear the difference in sound
quality with any influence from other types of cable, and truly hear its
affects. Kimber Kable (not a typo, Kimber likes to replace the "C" in cable with
a "K") is one of the only brands of cable that I have found where I could
replace once interconnect in my system, and hear a very distinct improvement of
the sound of my system due to this one cable change. One might think I
discovered this recently, with my system loaded with pricey review gear, but
this was not the case. This happened during the 1990s when I had just started
reviewing high-end audio equipment. My system at the time was decent, but
nothing like it is today.
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Kimber Kable Carbon 8 Interconnects, Carbon 18 XL Speaker Cables, Ascent Power Cables, And Select Copper USB Cable
Review.
McIntosh MC75 Monoblock Tube Amplifier And C22 Tube
Preamplifier Review
McIntosh's latest re-introduction of their classic audio components.
Review By Anthony Nicosia
McIntosh has been making high-end audio products that music
lovers have treasured for a very long time. This review of McIntosh's
re-introduction of their MC75 monoblock tube amplifier and C22 tube preamplifier
($3750 each and $7500 respectively) shows the strength of this longstanding high-end
audio manufacturer. Originally founded in 1949 they operated out of Silver
Spring, Maryland until 1956 when they built their current facility in
Binghamton, New York. What can anyone say about McIntosh Labs that has not
already been said? This sixty-six year old company has produced many classics
and is still making gear audiophiles crave for even in today's highly
competitive world-wide market. Let it be known that my passion for McIntosh
audio gear has spanned decades. In the past my home has seen the MC275, MC240,
MC225 (two of them to be exact), MC2102, MC2105 and MC452 amplifiers.
--->
McIntosh MC75 Monoblock Tube Amplifier And C22 Tube Preamplifier Review.
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