To say that these two musicians are at the top of the current jazz world is an understatement. In the important jazz critics' polls, Ambrose Akinmusire is consistently No.1 trumpet and Mary Halvorson ...
The quest to review the Pearl Acoustics Model One began at the 2025 Montreal Audiofest, which I was covering for Stereophile. It was there I crossed paths in a hallway with Galion Audio's Thomas Tan, ...
Unlike every other system featuring expensive speakers—some flagship pairs among them— Bowers & Wilkins' new 801 D5 floorstanders, which I heard in this room at Audio Advice Live 2026, surprised not ...
Playing Frank Sinatra on a Dual CD 529 turntable fitted with an Ortofon 2M Red cartridge through the Vienna Acoustics Schubert Grand Sonata loudspeakers in this Playback Distribution room at Audio ...
Sono Luminus DSL-92290 (CD; reviewed as 24/96). 2026. Ryan Streber, producer, editing; Dan Shores engineering, mixing, mastering. More than two years after its Brooklyn premiere, Terry Riley's ...
To me, the class-A/B Moon 371 integrated amplifier is one of the most significant products of this past year, largely because it fulfills what we, as audiophiles, hope for in a full-featured, ...
At the beginning of last month's As We See It, I wrote that I've lately been focused on "analog things." I proceeded to write about refurbishing and modding my old McIntosh tuner. That's "analog thing ...
Every year, the Expert Imaging and Sound Association hands out awards for the best products in each of 19 hi-fi categories, as determined by a panel of judges from the world's leading hi-fi magazines.
Stereophile has favorably reviewed three loudspeakers from Swiss manufacturer Stenheim. Art Dudley reviewed the Alumine standmount in April 2012 and the Alumine Five floorstander in March 2018. More ...
Description: Music streamer, DAC, preamp with 6" LCD touchscreen, onboard parametric EQ, virtual VU meters, dedicated control app, AK4191EQ delta-sigma modulator, AK4499EX D/A converter, and the XMOS ...
Evaluating a loudspeaker that would become Stereophile's 2011 Product of the Year, Art Dudley, at the time the magazine's editor-at-large, wrote, "The Voxativ Ampeggio went beyond sounding good: More ...
The most money I've ever spent on a pair of loudspeakers was back in the early 1990s, when I bought a pair of used TAD TH-4001 wooden horns and their associated TD-4001 compression drivers. The TAD ...