To enhance its selection of finishes and bring added elegance and style, Focal refreshes its range and continues the success of its wireless active noise-canceling headphones, with the release of Bathys Deep Black. Focal Bathys Deep Black This deep black finish is available for $699 exclusively on the Gramophone website here. The original silver/black and... Read More »
ET3 CD Digital Transport Features Audiophile-grade Components and Performance in a Sleek, Compact Chassis Montreal, Quebec, March 18, 2025 – Forte Distribution, a key distributor of audio and audiophile music products, announced today that the Shanling ET3 compact CD transport is back in stock, after having completely sold out in late 2024. The ET3 CD... Read More »
SMA-4750 and SMA-8300 Deliver High-Power, High-Performance Audio for Luxury Home Cinema Systems NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — March 18, 2025 — HARMAN Luxury Audio Group today announced that the highly anticipated JBL Synthesis SMA Series Amplifiers are now available in North America. Featuring powerful built-in DSPs for custom loudspeaker tuning and system configuration, the amps are designed for residential cinema applications with a... Read More »
Premium Vinyl Series Revisits Two Influential Hard Rock Staples Limited Edition Reissues Of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid and Alice Cooper’s Love It To Death Out Now High-End Remastering Of Essential Albums Available Exclusively At Rhino.com ORDER NOW (March 14, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi) ignites its series of acclaimed limited-edition, high-end... Read More »
The sound of Fantasy's mono jazz records from the mid-fifties is a sound that I really love. Should you try some—and I am referring to the records that were pressed on translucent red vinyl—the first thing you'll notice is they lack the forced-upon-you "high fidelity" sound of the Capitol and Columbia mono LPs. This is... Read More »
Wholesale Announcement: Exclusive Distribution of Sam First Records & Colorfield Records. AudiophileUSA is excited to announce our partnership with two of LA’s most forward-thinking jazz labels—Colorfield Records and Sam First Records—available exclusively through AudiophileUSA! Colorfield Records, founded by Pete Min, captures the raw, spontaneous energy of LA’s cutting-edge jazz scene. Recorded and mixed at legendary Lucy’s Meat Market, mastered by Kevin... Read More »
Bulletproof rainbow ModHouse Audio x Eidolic Limited Tungsten Grills Refine your headphones with the ModHouse Audio x Eidolic Limited Tungsten Grills—a seamless blend of durability and understated elegance. Crafted from precision CNC-machined SUS303 stainless steel, each grille is finished with Austrian TA-C technology, resulting in a hardened surface rated at 8000HV—four times harder than sapphire. ... Read More »
For the first half of 2025, Craft Recordings has announced five new reissues to kickstart the next phase of their Original Jazz Classics (OJC) series. Including a pair of historic albums from Miles Davis, a classic (mostly) solo date from pianist Thelonious Monk, along with albums from two remarkable jazz guitarists, Wes Mongomery and Joe... Read More »
New Beginnings, New Challenges This year's FIAE show (February 21-23, 2025) relocated to a new venue and sported a rather different touch and feel from previous show iterations. The new venue, the Sheraton Tampa Brandon, situated in a quieter suburban setting, largely delivered on the show organizer's promise of a vibrant, family-friendly experience, though not... Read More »
Mozart Piano Sonatas, Josep Colom. Eudora Records 2024 (Pure DSD256, Stereo, MCh) HERE "There are good pianists, and then there is Josep Colom." * A living legend. A creative genius. A brilliantly and entrancingly insightful artist. Spanish pianist Josep Colom is all of that and more. And if you've not listened to his recordings, you... Read More »
Rhino Entertainment continues to give the Yes catalog of albums the Super Deluxe Edition treatment with a new LP/CD/BD box set of the band's fifth studio album, 1972's Close To The Edge. A truly expansive multi-disc box set, Close To The Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (SDE) offers not only new remasters of the album from... Read More »
Prior to last year's holiday season, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab caused a bit of a stir in the audiophile community when it announced the Original Master Recording release of Maria Carey's perennial favorite Merry Christmas. With availability in a variety of individually numbered, limited edition formats, including a 33 rpm UltraDisc One-Step LP, a pair... Read More »
Watch out. This is going to be a bit of a rant. I begin to cringe every time I read/hear from audiophiles: Was it made from the master tape? Or..., It can't possibly sound very good—it wasn't from the master tape. Yes, I'm talking about reissues. And, yes, I'm talking about audiophiles being brain-washed into... Read More »
The Jo Stafford Collection. Jo Stafford, vocals, with various orchestras (unidentified) and assisting artists. HMV Easy 7243 5 29450 2 3 (monaural, recordings 1943-63) Decades ago, my parents regularly listened to a Saturday afternoon radio show on which host Jonathan Schwartz programmed Frank Sinatra and other performers of the Great American Songbook. Once, when I was visiting... Read More »
Orange, CA – February 26, 2025 – ELAC, a global leader in high-fidelity audio solutions, is excited to announce the launch of its first outdoor and commercial speaker line: the Muro Outdoor and Muro Pro Series. This expansion marks ELAC’s entry into the outdoor and distributed audio market, bringing its legacy of innovation and superior... Read More »
Network Acoustics (NA) are excited to announce the release of the eno2 USB Cable and the eno2 Balanced Digital Cable. Developed alongside the reference muon2 USB and Balanced Digital Cables, both of the new eno2 cables incorporate NA’s latest innovations in noise-rejecting cable design and are available for purchase now. They improve on every aspect... Read More »
Sheffield, UK & New Jersey, USA – March 5, 2025 – Wilson Benesch, the world-renowned British innovator in high-performance audio systems, is delighted to announce its official partnership with U.S. high-end audio importer Fidelity Imports. This strategic alliance marks a significant expansion for Wilson Benesch in the North American market, bringing its groundbreaking audio technologies to discerning U.S.... Read More »
Violinist Paik and pianist Niedermaier offer inviting, beautifully-recorded adaptations of classic opera favorites March 7, 2025 – Octave Records’ latest release, Love in the Moonlight: Operatic Fantasies for Violin and Piano by Susan Paik and Teddy Niedermaier, offers unique interpretations of beloved opera favorites, adapted for violin and piano duet. Beautifully recorded in high-resolution Pure... Read More »
Analogue Productions has by degrees been gradually remastering and releasing the entire Steely Dan catalog on SACDs, 180 gram LPs, and 200 gram Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR) ultimate LPs. The latest in this series is the band's fourth studio album, 1975's Katy Lied, a record whose sound quality (at least, on the original LP... Read More »
This article is the third and final part of Copper Magazine's interview with Jamie Howarth by Copper Editor and good audiobud Frank Doris. We republish it with the kind permission and blessing of PS Audio's Paul McGowan, with whom we have a deep shared love of DSD. You'll find part one republished by PF HERE, and... Read More »
Rhino Entertainment and Warner are aiming to Start Your Ear Off Right in 2025 with 26 limited edition LP reissues and releases. The current group of albums in the series includes a varied mix of 180 gram, clear vinyl 140 gram, and cool colored-vinyl 140 gram LPs. Start Your Ear Off Right encompasses a diverse... Read More »
Since downsizing 5 years ago and leaving behind my LPs and vinyl playback equipment, I have gradually built a new digital music library. At Dr. David's request, I shared this traumatic journey in several articles titled Yes, There Really is Music After Vinyl, the first of which you can find HERE. Today, most new additions... Read More »
Here are more really great audio systems that I felt really had it going on at the Florida International Audio Expo 2025. There were an abundance of exhibitors at the show this year, but the rooms I chose to highlight are the ones that really spoke to me, were technologically sensational, or played music that... Read More »
The T-1 Monitor with stand March 3rd, 2025 The Børresen T-series is designed and handcrafted in Denmark, embodying the expertise gained from our 0- and M-series. As a replacement for the 0-series, the new T-series is the result of extensive research and innovation, delivering exceptional performance in a refined design. The Børresen T-series has been... Read More »
The 2025 Florida International Audio Expo (FLAX) was new and improved this year, and the show took place at a new location, the Sheraton Tampa Brandon Hotel. The Sheraton offered a refreshingly new vibe compared to years past, and was strikingly more modern than the previous site, the Embassy Suites Westshore. It was a bit... Read More »
Roger Skoff at the LAOC Audio Society Gala, 2024 (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) Roger Skoff writes about the cost of building a system On one of the audiophile groups on Facebook, I just read a post where some guy wrote in and said he's got a turntable that cost whatever number... Read More »
This article by Marshall Nack originally ran in Issue 28, 2006, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are also going to see some articles from our early days of going online. True confessions. I've seen guys sidle up to the Kharma Exquisite-Midi speakers and... Read More »
Nagra is a brand of portable audio recorders manufactured since 1951 in Switzerland. Starting in 1997, it also offers high-end equipment for the audiophile community (...). The Kudelski Group's original product, Nagra recorders are now developed, manufactured and sold by an independent company, Audio Technology Switzerland S.A., based in Romanel-sur-Lausanne. en.wikipedia.org, accessed: 3.01.2024. The founder... Read More »
For years, "leftovers" of what biographers have called the Loudness War has dragged on. The drive by radio stations, and by extension publishers, to make music sound as loud as possible, no matter what volume we choose, almost led to the collapse of the music market. But we seem to be entering a new era... Read More »
Is music recorded on shellac discs lost to us, unless we have the right turntable? Mr. Hisao Natsume, founder of Sakuraphon, has an answer to this—transfer to CDs. We are telling you about his record label, his life and shellac records. Sakuraphon CD – Japanese producer of reissues of historical piano recordings with high-fidelity transfer,... Read More »
The Japanese company TiGLON was founded in 2008. Initially named Kryna Pro, it changed its name to TiGLON in 2010, and its founder and chief designer is Mr. Kentaro Okino. We are testing its latest LAN cable, TPL-2000L Professional. This is its press premiere outside Japan. Japanese company TiGLON (its name is styled 'TiGLON' by... Read More »
The title of this posting says it all. The Rhino High Fidelity Series continues to amaze! These limited numbered edition 33 rpm LP reissues are all pressed on super quiet 180-gram vinyl pressings from Optima in Germany. They offer the coolest high gloss, heavy weight gatefold "tip-on" style jackets and each has a custom designed... Read More »
The Lorenzo Audio Labs LM6 represents the Spanish manufacturer's first design of a fully sealed speaker. Some enthusiasts prefer speakers that interact less with their listening environment, that are more versatile in terms of placement in any listening room, and can be placed close to walls without causing a problem. There are also enthusiasts who... Read More »
High Definition Tape Transfers continues to make available excellent new releases of classic albums. Here are a few recent arrivals that have been brightening my days. Frank Sinatra, Only the Lonely. HDTT 1958 2025 (DXD, DSD256) HERE Only the Lonely is one of Frank Sinatra's most iconic albums, released in 1958 by Capitol Records. Known... Read More »
For the first time in the United States, TIDAL Audio products will be showcased in three large rooms, hosted by Audio Ultra, Artisan Fidelity, and The Voice That Is. Joining the celebration will be TIDAL Audio CEO Jorn Janczak. Featured product is the world premiere of the new AP1 speaker. You can also experience the... Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ReVox Launches the New B77 MKIII – An Evolutionary Advancement in Audio Recording Tampa, Florida — Feb.20,2025 — ReVox, a pioneer in the world of high-fidelity audio equipment, is thrilled to announce the release of the new B77 MK III, the latest evolution of its iconic reel-to-reel tape recorder. This new model... Read More »
Focal Powered by Naim Tampa Prestigious Audio Experiences from a Rapidly Growing Network February 17, 2025 - Long known as beacons of excellence, audio brands Focal and Naim offer their customers a comprehensive, high-end and memorable experience through their network of Focal Powered by Naim boutiques. The success of these sophisticated spaces lies in their... Read More »
