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The Rocky Mountain International Audio Fest (RMAF) has been notified by the Marriott Denver Tech Center (DTC) that second phase renovations have been delayed (see attached statement from the Marriott) and will not be complete by the start of the 13th Annual RMAF in October. In response to this development, RMAF and the Marriott DTC... Read More »

Lavish HiFi in Santa Rosa, CA, is hosting a special free listening GamuT event from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, September 30th & Saturday October 1st, featuring the premiere of GamuT's new flagship speaker, The ZODIAC, along with guest appearances from GamuT’s chief designer Benno Baun Meldgaard and GamuT’s US president Michael Vamos. Both will on... Read More »

Jimi Hendrix Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69 Out September 30 On CD, 2 LP 180 Gram Vinyl, High Resolution SACD And Digital Historic Debut Concert of Band of Gypsys to Be Released in its Entirety For First Time Ever Experience Hendrix L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment,... Read More »

LP Gear®, a global analog resource specializing in phono cartridges, replacement styli, turntable belts, turntables, headphones, earphones, audio electronics and accessories, is happy to present the Vessel and BIN Cartridges. The Magic of Analog Most people would say they listen to music with their ears. But as you upgrade your system and resolution reaches some... Read More »

HIFIMAN Updates Flagship HE1000 and Edition X Headphones with V2 Designation Highly Acclaimed Planar Magnetic Models Receive Styling and Ergonomic Improvements HIFIMAN, a leading designer/manufacturer of high performance headphones and portable audio products, announced important updates to their two top planar magnetic headphones. The highly acclaimed HE1000 and Edition X have undergone several styling and mechanical... Read More »

James Matheson:  A major new release from Yarlung Records! Todd Rosenberg photography Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Baird Dodge, violin Color Field Quartet (members of CSO and Chicago Lyric Opera orchestra) soprano Laura Strickling & pianist Thomas Sauer Executive Producers: J and Helen Schlichting Jim Matheson, Baird Dodge, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Chicago... Read More »

Music technology specialist MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) appoints Mike Jbara as CEO MQA, the music technology company founded by Bob Stuart, announced today that it has hired music executive Mike Jbara as CEO. In addition to day-to-day leadership responsibility, Jbara will sit on the Board of MQA Ltd. Bob Stuart, Chairman of MQA said: “We... Read More »

The Swiss company Goldmund has been present in Asia for more than three decades. The high demand for Goldmund products and the brand excellent reputation on this market are easily explained by the first strategic plan of the company. Issued in 1982, at a time when most audio brands were trying to conquer the USA,... Read More »

The SI-300.2d integrated amplifier is yet another milestone as Cary Audio forges deeper into the new era of sought after premium audio systems. Cary Audio is highly regarded for the rich, warm, yet detailed sound of our components. This includes both analog components and digital components, as we have become a reference standard in both.... Read More »

A Very Unique Power Amplifier First Watt's new F7 power amplifier (MSRP: $3,000) is a very unique power amplifier; a two-stage push-pull JFET (input)/MOSFET (output) topology with fewer parts than any First Watt amplifier to date. The new F7 has been created as an updated version of the earlier F5 amplifier. Conceived in 2007, the F5 was... Read More »

Isolates, improves sound, overcomes distance restrictions PS Audio is proud to introduce LANRover, the digital audio equivalent of our Power Plant products. Just as Power Plants isolate, clean, and regenerate AC, LANRover galvanically isolates a computer or server from the DAC, buffers and retimes packets of audio data, and allows the use of a LAN, rendering... Read More »

The Sound Organisation is excited to announce the Rega Planar 2 Turntable, shipping now! The result of over two years of R & D, Rega engineers along with a skilled staff hand assembling, proudly release the Planar 2 on the heels of the recently announced Planar 3. The Planar 2 features a new tonearm, platter,... Read More »

Award-winning DACs are improved yet again--at no cost PS Audio's DirectStream DAC has, in the last two years, won just about every Product of the Year award that there is to win in the world of audio. Our DirectStream Junior (DSJ) offers the DirectStream DNA at a lower price-point, while including our Bridge II network card... Read More »

Japanese label releases select albums in MQA for easy download UNAMAS, the Japanese hi-res music label run by award-winning recording engineer, Mick Sawaguchi, has selected ten albums from their catalogue for encoding in MQA. The recordings, ranging from Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” performed by the Unamas String Quintet, to Hiroshi Fukamizu’s “Everything for Drums”,... Read More »

Portland, OR - July 11, 2016 – We’re happy to announce the launch of our Online Storehttp://www.avoptions.com/store All our AC related products are now available for purchase online by USA and Canadiancustomers. Our other sections (Phono products - Speaker and Interconnect cables and NaimAudio accessories) will be launching in the coming months. To provide support... Read More »

Nativ Disc™ brings convenient access to large CD collections, in lossless quality and with rich metadata experience Nativ™ today unveiled its new Nativ Disc™, a bit-perfect CD Ripper that allows users to import up to 12,000 CDs into their Nativ Vita™ high-resolution music player. Nativ Disc™ is true plug-and-play and connects to Vita™ via bus-powered... Read More »

Elegant music library management and TIDAL integration enhances user experience for award-winning Bryston digital music players  Bryston (bryston.com) has announced new firmware version S2.28 for their digital music players that delivers Roon Ready capability. Roon Labs has created a software solution that delivers the ultimate user experience by merging Bryston’s exceptional BDP digital playback hardware... Read More »

THE EXTREME PHANTOM, EIGHT TIMES MORE POWERFUL THE BEST SOUND IN THE WORLD DEVIALET ANNOUNCES THE MOST EXTREME AND PRECISE AUDIO PRODUCT EVER: "GOLD PHANTOM" WITH 4,500 WAT TS OF A/D POWER, BETTER THAN HUMAN "PHANTOM" WAS PREVIOUSLY BEST OF CES 2015 AND BEST HARDWARE PRODUCT NOMINEE AT THE CRUNCHIES, DEVIALET NOW PUSHES THE L... Read More »

  Bridging the price gap between far more costly premium products and lesser performing budget models, the C-Major turntable from European Audio Team breaks new ground for vinyl enthusiasts VANA, Ltd. (www.vanaltd.com) has announced that the European Audio Team (E.A.T) C-Major turntable, the company’s first complete analog playback solution, is available now through a carefully... Read More »