July - August 2026
Audio Discourse
A New Solution to Understanding What Your Digital Audio System...
Our friend Ferenc Koscsó has been breaking down barriers yet again. Audiophile, recording engineer, and founder of My Reel Club in Budapest, Ferenc...
Passport to Sound: May Anwar’s Audio Learning Experience for...
At Capital Audiofest 2025, a small book on a table in cable manufacturer M101’s exhibit caught my eye. Titled Passport to Sound, it’s a...
Laugh, Clone, Laugh
Roger Skoff writes about when a ripoff is really a ripoff I read recently in another publication that Asian manufacturers are now copying...
Musings About AI, Audio, and Music
Being a music and audio person, I have some thoughts about how AI will relate to our listening consumption in an increasingly AI-laden era. Unlike much...
Hi-Fi's Ultimate Flaw
Roger Skoff finally reveals all. For most of a century—even before some early genius coined the term "high fidelity"—audiophiles, music lovers, and...
Hardware Reviews
Dynavector P75 Mk4.1 phono preamplifier
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,...
The Aura LCC 1 Preamplifier & LCP 1 Power Amplifier
(AURA is now a Japanese company, founded in 1989 in the UK. Its first and best-known product was the VA-40 integrated amplifier. In 1996, the brand was...
Parks Audio Waxwing Phono Stage: Amazing Flexibility and...
Prior to my move a few years ago to Charleston, South Carolina, my listening environment at my home in Georgia was a virtual tomb, and I mean that...
Music Reviews
Rare Earth's "Get Ready"
Recently, while driving and tolerating my Las Vegas’ moldy oldies FM station KQLL, I heard an old favorite that I don’t hear too often. It was Rare...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E267: High End Vienna 2020 - The Austria Center Vienna
Today, we take a walkthrough tour of the Austria Center Vienna, the fabulous new home of the High End Society’s annual international audio show, High.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
Soulution 717 Amplifier
The Soulution brand was established in 2005 and is owned by Spemot AG, a company based in Dulliken that has specialized for 56 years in the production...
Show Reports
AES European Conference - Copenhagen 2026
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...
AXPONA 2026: Bring the Equipment and They Shall Come
Last year's big story was AXPONA 15th anniversary! This year's "Headline News" is hands down AXPONA's earth shattering attendance! A remarkable...
