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Direct from the Scottish outfit Atlas, these rather svelte interconnect cables proved to be a minor revelation to Paul Rigby  A long-established, high-respected HiFi outfit of many years standing, well the year 2000 to be exact, this Scottish outfit has been pushing cables from its base in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire to just about every variation you... […]

NAD has announced the launch of the NAD C589 CD Player At the heart of the C589 is QRONO d2a, a digital audio technology developed by MQA Labs that, according to the company, improves “…digital timing and reconstruction accuracy.” Apparently enhancing spatial detail, transient accuracy and musical flow.  The company talks up its disc loader... […]

The Burson Conductor Voyager arrives all the way from Australia with a bold design, serious weight (7kg!) and a feature list that reads like a hi-fi enthusiast’s wish list But at £3,900, does it truly deliver reference-level sound? To view the video, click below:   The post CONDUCTOR VOYAGER FROM BURSON appeared first on The […]

SVS, Dorpo, AVID, TechDAS & Kerr all in one hit. From compact bass to ultra high-end vinyl—this is serious gear To view the video, click below: The post HiFi NEWS 2 MAY 2026 appeared first on The Audiophile Man.

The new K400 is a two-way stand-mount which can also be wall/ceiling mounted It takes many of the same ingredients and design philosophy from the K300. The K400 uses a 24mm Baltic Birch plywood (BBP) baffle with 18mm BBP sides, top and bottom and 12mm internal bracing. A 150mm Scanspeak mid-bass unit is paired with... […]

Offering a full width yet low slung profile, Paul Rigby checks out this sub-£1k CD player with a valve built in Released by the French company, this CD player features two valves – one per channel – old stock, military-style, Raytheon subminiature 5744 signal valves. Both sit in the analogue output section, influencing sound quality... […]

dorpo’s DMP-A1 digital music player is also a headphone amplifier, pre-amplifier and DAC. And yes. Lowercase Supporting up to 32bit/768kHz and DSD up to DSD512 (native) plus MQA, the DMP-A1 also integrates a host of streaming services plus AirPlay, DLNA and Bluetooth. Inside is an ESS ES9039SPro chip, inputs include optical, coaxial, USB and HDMI... […]

Housed in a compact 279mm sealed cabinet, the 3000 Micro R|Evolution features dual-opposing, force-balanced active 229mm drivers… …a 1,200W continuous MOSFET amplifier and 295MHz DSP. Calibration and control are managed via the SVS Subwoofer Control Smartphone App. Users can adjust volume, low-pass filter, phase, polarity, room gain compensation and up to six parametric EQ bands,... […]

Is the SPL Diamond DAC worth £2,650? In this review, I take a deep dive into this German pro-audio-inspired DAC and see how it performs in a home HiFi setup To see the review, click below: The post DIAMOND DAC FROM SPL appeared first on The Audiophile Man.

This week’s hi-fi news includes a range of new launches from across the audio spectrum To see the video, click below: The post HiFi NEWS 25 APRIL 2026 appeared first on The Audiophile Man.

Mini Music Powerhouse $995.00 fiio.com/k17 Nestled in between my mighty Klipschorns, with ROON playing “Paranormial” by The Art of Noise, it amazes a few of my audiophile buddies that the source is the tiny FiiO K17 DAC. And it’s not just a DAC, it’s a full-blown streamer, preamplifier (though I am only using it as […]

A great beginning to a system from Decibel+www.decibel-plus.com Neoson Genese Tube Integrated – $7,885Atlantis AT 16 Pro speakers ($1,609/ea. as tested, in black leather – $1,729 ea. in white) With such a wide range of hifi gear at your disposal, even someone who doesn’t suffer from severe FOMO can get overwhelmed in a hurry. We’ve […]

The crew at Ranger HiFi has been winning awards left and right for their small but mighty speaker systems at $299 and $149 per pair, and some great cables at $99. So it made perfect sense to see a compact integrated with similar performance. But this small and this inexpensive? Impressive indeed. Smaller than a […]

The Vera-Fi Ranger speakers have really taken me on a trip down memory lane today. Many audio reviewers and enthusiasts with high-end systems sometimes forget where it all began. For me, it was a used pair of AR-7s for $50. My buddy Todd across the street purchased them new at J&R Music World (remember the […]

These are our picks in the last 14 months or so for our favorite products to go in smaller environments where space is at a premium, and an extra splash of style is a bonus. A few of these products’ full reviews will be posted in the next couple of weeks, but we wanted to […]

Think about cables for a few minutes. Then think about having only a pair of power cords in your system.If you’re in a small space, less is usually more, so this is not a bad thing for you. The Dynaudio Focus 10 speakers only need a pair of power cords. You can link the two […]

You Can’t Unhear em! Wireworld founder David Salz makes some of the world’s finest cables, used by audiophiles and endorsed by recording engineers the world over. He’s a big thinker, and this time he’s solved a problem that a lot of us didn’t know we had – mini power cords. Applying their Fluxfield™ technology, he’s […]

Say, who says we have to hand out awards at the end of the year? We’ve always tried to be a little bit different so here goes. The Audiophile Apartment section of our magazine and site has always tried to concentrate on audio gear with a smaller form factor that doesn’t give anything up in […]

$299/pair Verafiaudiollc.com Listening to The Knack’s “Africa,” I tried a trick that I’ve seen at more than one hifi show – I hooked this $300 pair of speakers to about $200k worth of gear. Wacky as this seems, it illustrates two things: the ultimate performance envelope of said speakers, and how easy (or not) they […]

After spending an afternoon with staffer Earle’s Focal Sopra 3s, just before firing up their new Vestia no.1 at my place, the level of sonic excellence they bring to a $1,198 pair of speakers seems amazing. Listening to the same handful of tracks that I shuffled through at Earle’s house, not too much sonic memory […]

HIGH END Vienna 2026 opens a new chapter for the world's premier high-end audio exhibition, staging its debut at the Austria Center Vienna from June 4th through 7th. The relocation from Munich to Vienna was framed as both symbolic and strategic: organizers emphasized Vienna's musical heritage and the ACV's modern facilities as ideal for larger, […]

International Jazz Day 2026 drew global attention on the 30th of April, as musicians, educators, and communities around the world joined a coordinated series of concerts, workshops and broadcasts to celebrate jazz's enduring cultural impact. The day's centerpiece was an All-Star Global Concert hosted in Chicago, a city long synonymous with jazz innovation, which served […]

The May 2026 issue of EnjoyTheMusic.com's luxurious high-fidelity audio Review Magazine celebrates our love for music in all its forms. This issue delivers a broad mix of show coverage, editorials, technical features, and equipment reviews. The issue frames its content around both audiophile heritage and the current youthful momentum within our high-end audio world, as […]

BMG and Concord have agreed to merge into a single, independent music company operating under the BMG name, creating a combined business controlled roughly 67% by Bertelsmann and 33% by affiliates of Great Mountain Partners, with Concord CEO Bob Valentine named CEO and BMG's Thomas Coesfeld to serve as chairman. BMG and Concord announced a […]

 AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) closed its 2026 edition, drawing over 10,000 attendees to the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center and showcasing hundreds of brands from many countries. The three-day event featured dedicated Listening Rooms, an expanded Ear Gear Experience, as Expo Hall and nightly live concerts that helped fuel a 15% attendance increase over 2025 […]

This year's show report is dedicated to the memory of Ernie Fisher, Editor of The Inner Ear, who was one of the first friends I made at the Montreal show when I was getting started. He passed away in the spring of last year, and I wanted to make this dedication in the Montreal report, […]

The Lone Star Audiofest 2026 is set to return Memorial Day weekend, running May 22nd through 24th at the Embassy Suites in Round Rock, Texas. The three-day event promises a mix of exhibitor rooms, seminars, and live demonstrations aimed at audiophiles, hobbyists, and industry professionals. The festival highlights a long tradition of hands-on listening rooms, […]

Giddy. (adj) The emotional response I have developed to the musical instruments that are Børresen loudspeakers. In my crossover life as both a professional musician and high-end audio writer and reviewer, I have grown acquainted with a handful of select audio designs that, from my perspective, serve as true musical instruments – creations that express […]

Editorial: Hear No Evil Designing the Dynaco ST-70 Series 3 Vacuum Tube Audio Power Amplifier The Yin & Yang Circuit Stabilizing Tube Feedback Amplifiers Without Much Math Part 1—Diagnostic Principles Rediscovering The EF184: A Surprising MM RIAA Preamplifier Building a KT170 Class-A Amplifier Thoughts On Igor Popovich's Audiophile Vacuum Tube Amplifiers Books Revisiting An Elegant […]

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 […]