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30 Years Of Service To Music
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December's Holiday Soundtrack:
Ultimate Gift Guides, Exclusive Reviews & Toronto + CAF 2025 Show Reports
Give better sounding gifts this holiday
season thanks to our curated guides.
Enjoy the Music.com's December Holiday issue continues our 30th anniversary celebration with a curated mix of seasonal features,
in-depth equipment reviews, and comprehensive show coverage from Toronto Audiofest and Capital Audiofest 2025. This issue combines expert holiday gift guides, thoughtful essays on the emotional and physical benefits of music, and historical retrospectives that invite readers to revisit
top-rated gear and landmark articles from decades of high-end audio journalism. Featured reviews and buying advice include a
world-premiere evaluation of the sculptural MC Audiotech TL-8 floorstanding loudspeakers, the compact Nirvana Audio Chronos Optimizer, and the
value-focused Hegel H150 streaming amplifier, each tested for design, sonic signature, and
real-world listening performance. With our Great Audiophile Gift guides, this December issue is both a definitive reference for serious audiophiles and a seasonal resource for holiday gift shoppers for their music lover. As always, in the end what really matters is that you... enjoy the
music!
---> December's Holiday Soundtrack: Ultimate Gift Guides, Exclusive Reviews & Toronto + CAF 2025 Show Reports!
audioXpress'
January 2026 Issue
Editorial: You Had One Job
Marenius A2B To MADI Converter
DECT NR+: A Wireless Solution For Real-Time Audio?
The AP-805 Accelerometer Amplifier And Analog Signal Processor
The Forgotten Pioneers
Speaker Innovation
Thin-Ply Carbon Diaphragm Tweeter Domes
Adaptive Nonlinear Loudspeaker Control
Guitar Amps Vs. HiFi Amps In the Early 1960s
And Much More!
---> audioXpress January 2026
Issue.
Spinal Tap Movie
Director Marty Di Bregi Passes
Marty Di Bergi, the wry, inquisitive documentarian who brought the world the rockumentary
This Is Spinal Tap, has died — leaving behind a legacy of deadpan curiosity, comic restraint, and a film that reshaped how we look at music and myth. Marty Di Bergi was, by design, an observer first and a now-legendary storyteller second. In fact, without Marty's deep kindness, many of us here at
Enjoy the Music.com might never have come to know of Spinal Tap's life-changing music. Marty preferred to let his subjects reveal themselves naturally, lingering on small gestures, those precious awkward silences, and the private rituals that make performers of musical art truly human. In interviews, such as detailing the band's various drummers, and behind-the-scenes moments, Marty was kindly patient, gently skeptical, and always ready with a clarifying question that exposed more truth than any staged confrontation. On the road with the rock band Spinal Tap, Di
Bergi's camera became a mirror for the band's contradictions: bravado and insecurity, spectacle and banality.
---> Spinal Tap Movie Director Marty Di Bregi Passes. 
Gene Simmons Urges
U.S. Congress On Radio Royalties
KISS frontman Gene Simmons urged the U.S. Congress to pass the American Music Fairness Act, calling for AM/FM radio stations to pay recording artists for airplay for the first time and describing the current system as an injustice to performers. Gene Simmons took his case to Capitol Hill this week, appearing before lawmakers to press for legislation that would require broadcast radio stations to pay royalties to recording artists and producers when their recordings are played on AM and FM airwaves. Simmons framed the issue as a long-standing loophole in U.S. copyright law that leaves performers uncompensated while radio companies profit from their work, a point he emphasized in prepared remarks to lawmakers and in media appearances ahead of the
hearing. 
Hi-Fi+ December 2025 High-End
Audio Magazine
Editorial: The Sound Of A Milestone As hi-fi+ Achieves 250 Issues
The hi-fi+ 2026 Awards
Bowers & Wilkins 805 D4 Signature Stand-Mount Loudspeaker
EMM Labs DA2i Digital-To-Analog Converter
DeVore Fidelity O/Bronze Large Stand-Mounted Loudspeaker
Marantz Model 10 Stereo Integrated Amplifier
Nordost QNET 7 Network Switch
Happy 250th! Celebrating 250 Issues Of hi-fi+!
Issue 250 And Beyond... We Look To The (Near) Future Of Audio.
Meet Your Maker: Trilogy Audio Systems
...And Much More!
---> Hi-Fi+'s
December 2025 High-End Audio Magazine.
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
took 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
was open for all music lovers 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
continues to grow 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 are now online and being
updated through December. Be sure to read our exciting, exclusive,
and expanded coverage of CAF 2025!
---> Inside Capital Audiofest 2025: Exclusive Show Report & Latest
Gear.
Musick Hath Charms....
Why you really need your home audio sound system.
Article
By Roger Skoff
Did you ever hear a quotation like "Music has power to charm
the savage beast"? Although practically everybody has, and practically
everybody guesses it to be by William Shakespeare, the real quote is actually "Musick hath charms to soothe a savage breast" and it was written
(originally as "Musick has Charms to soothe a savage Breast, To soften
Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.") by William Congreve as part of his tragic
play The Mourning Bride, first performed in 1697. Although most people seem to get just about everything about
the quotation (date, source, words) wrong, the fact is that it's far truer
than many may think, and music may actually have real benefits for us as
audiophiles. Besides just its hobby value, listening to music has actual
physical benefits. Scientific research increasingly supports the idea that music
has measurable healing effects—physically, emotionally, and neurologically.
---> Musick Hath Charms.... Why you really need your home audio sound
system.
Music And Mindfulness For Stress Reduction
Mindfulness is very real and it provides a powerful change in perspective.
Article By Gideon Waxman Of Drum Helper
Mindfulness
is an incredibly liberating practice; one that has exploded as a recent
phenomenon in the western world. Interestingly, us moderns are the last people
on the planet to uncover the wealth of treasures it has to offer. Music and
mindfulness are indeed complementary practices. Music and sounds
make a wonderful object of focus for the mind, with mindful listening proven to
boost our overall well-being and reduce stress significantly. Whilst mindfulness is still finding its way into mainstream
culture, music is universal and plays a prominent role in everyday life for most
people. Humans are surrounded by music. It is undeniable that it affects people's moods and emotions, as it engages broad neural networks in the brain.
Playing a musical instrument or listening to music whilst encompassing mindful
values can transform the experience....
--->
Music And Mindfulness For Stress Reduction.
Reflecting Back On High-End Audio
During 2020
High-end audio and the music industry experiences impressive growth.
Editorial By Steven R. Rochlin
I've spoken to many manufacturers and distributors during 2020, and without a doubt
the saying "May you live in interesting times" holds true. While that
saying is an English expression that is claimed to be a translation of a
traditional Chinese curse, the point is very valid for 2020. On one hand, both
high-end audio and the music industry experienced impressive growth. On the
other hand, we also missed seeing one another during shows. More hi-fi blogs and
YouTube videos have been produced during 2020 than perhaps any other time. So on
the one hand we have expanding businesses, online sales, reviews, etc within the
consumer electronics sector, on the other we have (generally the elderly) dying
from... Everyone at Enjoy the Music.com truly feels deep sadness for
those we've lost during 2020. With your kind permission, and after much thought
about what should be said within this 2020 wrap-up, I'd like to focus on the
positives of 2020 to wrap up this year's editorial.
--->
Reflecting Back On High-End Audio During 2020.
Looking Back At Enjoy the
Music.com's 25 Years Of Service
As we also celebrate today... and the future.
Editorial By Steven R. Rochlin
When
I initially realized 2020 would celebrate Enjoy the Music.com's past 25
years of being of service to the high-end audio / audiophile community, it
brought a huge smile to my face. As one of the very first web-based sites
online, there's quite a bit of history that was being made at the time. Back
then virtually no print publication had a website. Yahoo was only a year old,
while Google search engine would not appear online until three years later(!).
Virtually no hi-fi print publication had a website back in 1995. Decades later, virtually
every manufacturer and print publication has a web presence (and social media too!). Today, many
enthusiasts within our hobby have their own web page, some of which are
producing excellent articles and reviews too! As we're all in this
together, Enjoy
the Music.com is also celebrating decades of working with, and actively
promoting, other magazines too! Please allow me to personally take this moment to thank
both our longstanding, and newfound, global readers.
--->
Looking Back At Enjoy the Music.com's 25 Years Of Service.
Our Verdict Is In: IsoAcoustics GAIA I Neo Series Isolation Feet Review
An evolutionary product that has been gaining traction over the years.
Review By Rick Becker
In a time long ago, well, it was the early 1990s, and audiophiles in greater
numbers were accepting that cables and power conditioners could really make an
improvement to sound quality. "Perfect sound forever" was coming to the
realization that even with digital music, improvement was necessary, giving
birth to the stand-alone DAC. Reviews on tweaks like the IsoAcoustics GAIA I Neo
isolation feet / footers and such were rare, though now here on Enjoy the
Music.com. And back then, Tiptoes were the solution to improving the
resolution of components, while floorstanding loudspeakers had spikes to keep them
anchored in the floor and drain vibrations from the cabinets while limiting
vibrations coming up from the floor... or so the story went. After a decade of being a novice audiophile, covering the
Montreal shows from the mid-1990s on, and finally becoming a valuable product....
--->
IsoAcoustics GAIA I Neo Series Isolation Feet Review.
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