Chicago, IL (July 21, 2026) — A new force in […]The post Introducing New Energy Audio Distribution (NEAD) appeared first on The Absolute Sound. - 5 hours ago, 21 Jul 26, 6:27am -
In this video, John Quain takes a closer look at […]The post DALI KUPID Bookshelf Speaker Review appeared first on The Absolute Sound. - 5 hours ago, 21 Jul 26, 5:59am -
Editor’s Note: This review was designed to examine REL’s line-array […]The post REL Line Array Subwoofer System appeared first on The Absolute Sound. - 6 hours ago, 21 Jul 26, 5:38am -
On her sixth release of 2025, and the sixth in […]The post Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick appeared first on The Absolute Sound. - 6 hours ago, 21 Jul 26, 5:21am -
Why should we worry about the conservation and preservation of old analog master tapes when they've long ago been transferred to digital? It's a reasonable question—especially since AI-powered digital signal processing is on the horizon, promising… - 11 Jul 25, 12:00am -
Black Oak Ensemble: Dance Of The Night SkyCedille CR 90000 237. CD (reviewed as 24/96 FLAC). 2025. James Ginsburg, prod.; Bill Maylone, eng.Performance ****Sonics ****Forgive the pun: Scores of women are active today as classical composers, but… - 10 Jul 25, 12:00am -
Black Oak Ensemble: Dance Of The Night SkyCedille CR 90000 237. CD (reviewed as 24/96 FLAC). 2025. James Ginsburg, prod.; Bill Maylone, eng.Performance ****Sonics ****Forgive the pun: Scores of women are active today as classical composers, but… - 10 Jul 25, 12:00am -
Harvey Diamond/John Lentz: how strange the road should be so easyDiamond, piano; Lentz, vocalsOrchard of Pomegranates 006 (CD). 2025. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, prod.; Craig Welsch, eng.Performance ****Sonics ****If there was ever a sleeper album, t… - 10 Jul 25, 12:00am -
Harvey Diamond/John Lentz: how strange the road should be so easyDiamond, piano; Lentz, vocalsOrchard of Pomegranates 006 (CD). 2025. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, prod.; Craig Welsch, eng.Performance ****Sonics ****If there was ever a sleeper album, t… - 10 Jul 25, 12:00am -
ABX.mp3Audio: Listen to ArticleIt was a cash deal. Craigslist. The seller was adamant: No shipping. No negotiation. No returns.I had to trust my man in Seattle. Trust that he wouldn’t pocket the money I’d recklessly sent him. Trust that he’d m… - 3 hours ago, 21 Jul 26, 8:05am -
Tuneshine.mp3Audio: Listen to articleOver the last several years, I’ve had an idea in my head about a product I wanted to build, DIY style. I have zero interest in making and selling a product, this idea was just for me and those who may also find… - 7 days ago, 14 Jul 26, 8:17am -
ZiiGaat Horizon Review.mp3Audio: Listen to articleBack in October, I reviewed the ZiiGaat Luna. It was my first encounter with the Shenzhen-based company, which started as an OEM/ODM before launching its own IEM line in 2023. The $379 Luna proved to… - 11 days ago, 10 Jul 26, 6:15am -
auto-event-la.mp3Audio: Listen to articleThe new Wilson Audio Autobiography is a very special loudspeaker. I received an inside view of the Autobiography’s creation, literally, at the launch event held at Wilson headquarters in Provo, UT. I spent… - 15 days ago, 6 Jul 26, 4:23pm -
japan.mp3Audio: Listen to articleI’ve recently come to a theological conclusion. If an audiophile lives a good audiophile life, when he dies, he might go to Tokyo.Let me explain.Understandably, when an audiophile thinks of Tokyo, he’s likely to… - 20 days ago, 1 Jul 26, 9:50am -
Hi,I noticed this integrated on the website. I would like to know if there are any reviews out there and where it fits in with the Amp Comparison Chart.Thanks - 31 Jan 26, 5:43am -
If you’ve been looking for a pair of speakers that look and sound incredibly neutral, delivering the sonic goods, yet not imposing on your personal space, consider the Frigg 02 from Ø Audio. At $15,000/pair, they will probably not be your first pa… - 7 days ago, 14 Jul 26, 4:37pm -
The new 3000 Micro R I Evolution from SVS has taken the incredible performance of the prior model, made the cabinet a touch bigger (so little you can’t really tell the diff), and increased the driver size from 8 to 9 inches. They’ve had to up the… - 9 days ago, 12 Jul 26, 11:32am -
Hello and welcome to Distilled. We are not abandoning our standard reviews, but for those of you that would like a little more than the canned press releases everyone else is posting, but not sure if you want to make the time investment in a full rev… - 9 days ago, 12 Jul 26, 6:12am -
By now it’s old news that Dynaudio is leaving North America. While nearly everyone else merely posted the press release, they are a company that is worth a lot more introspection. First, Dynaudio is a company whose products I’ve always really enj… - 11 days ago, 10 Jul 26, 7:34pm -
The Kubala-Sosna Ovation Cable Loom – Cable Supremacy Has a New Name One of my earliest breakthrough articles on audio appeared in the late 1980s. I was among the first audio journalists to argue that cables deserve as much consideration in a summi… - 2 days ago, 19 Jul 26, 12:00am -
During the first half of 2026 I've had the pleasure of reviewing three fantastic MC phono cartridges--the Analog Relax EX 500, the Hana Umami Black and finally the Aidas Durawood that I'm reviewing here. All three cartridges have undeniable strengths… - 4 days ago, 17 Jul 26, 12:00am -
Have I told you about my Joe Block story yet? Back at the 2024 Capital Audiofest, I was invited by Doug White of The Voice That Is for an after-hours performance by Joe Block and his trio. Doug's been a fan and friend of Joe's for years, and he obvio… - 6 days ago, 15 Jul 26, 12:00pm -
Benchmark Media Systems has straddled the line between pro audio and two channel HiFi for quite some time. Known in the pro space for D-to-A and A-to-D conversions, the company has really branched out make some serious HiFi gear in recent years. At t… - 7 days ago, 14 Jul 26, 10:51am -
TAD ME1TX Loudspeakers: A Floorstander Masquerading as a Bookshelf? On paper, the answer is clearly no. The TAD ME1TX is a compact three-way loudspeaker measuring just over sixteen inches tall. It combines a single 16cm (just over 6 inches) woofer wi… - 9 days ago, 12 Jul 26, 12:00am -
The Acoustic Sounds Verve Jazz Series has become one of the most consistently rewarding reissue programs in recent years. Last year’s reissue of Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book impressed me deeply and convinced me that these clas… - 11 days ago, 10 Jul 26, 8:10am -
I thought I had settled on the way I wanted to experience music.Vinyl had always remained at the center of my system. I enjoyed a brief affair with the compact disc, but records never really surrendered their place. My curiosity about digital, howeve… - 20 days ago, 1 Jul 26, 6:30am -
The song playing on my setup right now is HM Surf’s “Making Love and Sweet Noodles” from the fabulous album Mujura (2018). It sounds reminiscent of what you might hear if you were to combine the soft sounds from a Radiohead album with the delic… - 20 days ago, 1 Jul 26, 5:00am -
My introduction to Edgard Varèse’s Arcana came through Robert Craft’s 1962 Columbia recording.The music made an immediate impression. Its sheer audacity, highly individual musical language, and refusal to conform to conventional orchestral expec… - 29 days ago, 22 Jun 26, 8:54am -
In early December this year (2025), my doorman notified me of a large 75-pound box that had arrived addressed to me. Not recalling ordering anything of that nature, I was stumped as to what it could be; I did not recognize the sender's name or addres… - 50 days ago, 1 Jun 26, 6:00am -
A coalition of leading music organizations—including IFPI, RIAA, A2IM, WIN, IMPALA, The Grammys, SAG-AFTRA, and the Human Artistry Campaign—announced a new voluntary track-level labeling system to distinguish generative AI use in sound recording… - 16 hours ago, 20 Jul 26, 7:09pm -
Luminate's newly released 2026 Midyear Report reveals a surprising and decisive shift in the physical music market: compact discs (CD) are growing dramatically faster than vinyl LPs, marking one of the most unexpected consumer behavior pivots in rec… - 1 day ago, 20 Jul 26, 1:26am -
Southwest Audio Fest 2026 returns to Dallas from July 23rd through 25th with a sharpened three-day schedule designed to maximize energy, attendance, and high-end listening opportunities. Organizers have officially dropped the traditional Sunday sess… - 1 day ago, 20 Jul 26, 1:11am -
Recently I received some new CD re-issues from JVC who have begun applying their very nice XRCD process to the RCA Victor catalog of classical recordings from the 1950s and 1960s. Among this batch was a personal favorite: Fritz Reiner and the Chicag… - 5 days ago, 16 Jul 26, 8:11pm -
Pass Laboratories, Inc., is a name that most audiophiles utter, after describing a product that comes close to perfection. "XXX amplifier almost sounds as good as the Pass Labs XXX model". We've all done it. Fortunately, "as good as" will have to wa… - 6 days ago, 15 Jul 26, 7:34am -
There is one thing that all high end audio components require to function as a system, and that is signal and power cables. No getting around it. Of course, there is no market segment more controversial than audiophile cabling. This is partially due… - 22 Mar 17, 1:45pm -
Multi-function powered speakers are all the rage in 2017, and no other company has been more at the forefront than Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-loudspeakers/bookshelf-monitor-loudspeakers/audioengine-hd3-powered-speakers-dac-review… - 6 Feb 17, 8:02pm -
A lot of excellent HiFi products are designed and produced in Australia, and none more than Conductor DAC/Preamp and Timekeeper power amp combo (home-theater-power-amplifiers/stereo-amplifiers/the-burson-conductor-timekeeper-review.html) sometime ago… - 24 Jan 17, 9:10am -
Sony has detailed the latest additions to its EXTRA BASS Wireless Speaker Series. The new models include the SRS-XB40, SRS-XB30, SRS-XB20, and SRS-XB10.Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/speaker-systems-news/sony-details-new-extr… - 24 Jan 17, 9:02am -
Hulu and Magnolia Pictures have announced a new output licensing agreement. As part of the deal, Hulu will receive the pay one window streaming rights to films released by the distributor.Read more... (http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-news/indust… - 24 Jan 17, 8:58am -
A couple weeks ago we reposted Ferenc Koscsó's article introducing a minimalist, bit-perfect music player, written in C, with a single purpose: to deliver the music file data stream to the DAC by the shortest, most deterministic path, untouched, in… - 5 days ago, 16 Jul 26, 9:35am -
"The tonality is really good, better than most MCs at any price,” Alexey Kornienkov wrote on Facebook. “A joy with voices and acoustic instruments. Good tonality sometimes comes at the expense of resolution, but not in this case." Also known as… - 8 days ago, 13 Jul 26, 3:52pm -
Transition and Strategic Review Crystal Claire to Provide Direct Oversight as Company Reviews Operations and Future Direction Toronto, ON — July 2, 2026 — Acora Acoustics today announced a leadership transition as the company begins a strategic a… - 18 days ago, 3 Jul 26, 9:57am -
My house was built in 1970, and the AC power was pretty ratty. Flickering lights I can handle; visible arcing, not so much. As a plucky new homeowner, I first tried to tackle it myself by replacing some obviously questionable Cutler Hammer breakers a… - 19 days ago, 2 Jul 26, 9:17am -
Not far from Copenhagen! Note that I attended only a small fraction of the events out there, and I mostly attended the events that I thought would be personally interesting. If I missed something you thought was critical don't be surprised since I mi… - 19 days ago, 2 Jul 26, 9:15am -
21 Songs About Being 16 – The Soundtrack to Youth, Identity, and First Love Turning sixteen marks a thrilling and emotional chapter in life—caught between childhood and adulthood, independence and uncertainty. Across generations and genres, music… - 9 Aug 25, 9:38pm -
¡Viva México! 23 Songs That Celebrate Mexico in Music Whether it’s the sun-drenched beaches of Cancún, the romantic streets of Guadalajara, or the wild freedom of a border-town night, Mexico has long inspired songwriters across every genre. Thes… - 9 Aug 25, 9:32pm -
Doors are more than just physical barriers—they’re powerful metaphors in music. Whether it’s knocking on heaven’s door, slipping through the back door, or choosing to leave one open, doors represent change, transition, intimacy, secrecy, and… - 9 Aug 25, 9:26pm -
Drift Away: 21 Songs About Clouds, Sky, and Emotion Clouds have long inspired musicians, serving as metaphors for change, uncertainty, hope, and transcendence. From the soft white shapes drifting across a blue sky to the dark, brooding masses of stor… - 9 Aug 25, 9:21pm -
Discover the Spirit of the North: 27 Songs About Alaska From vast snow-covered landscapes to tales of solitude, escape, and reinvention, Alaska has long fascinated songwriters. Whether used as a literal setting or a powerful metaphor, the Last Fronti… - 9 Aug 25, 8:50pm -
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