May - June 2026
Audio Discourse
The Electromagnetic Environment Your Music Lives in and Why 2026...
This article is part of an ongoing series examining electromagnetic field theory and its application to high-fidelity audio reproduction. The...
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
Kubala-Sosna Ovation Speaker Cables: All The Truth, Nothing But...
Current interconnects, speaker cables and power cords deliver far better sound than in the early days of high-end audio. Sadly, buying audio cables...
Music Reviews
Acoustic Sounds' Organ Grinder: The Incredible Jimmy Smith...
James Oscar Smith was an American jazz icon who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, forging a link between jazz and 1960s Soul—or the...
MoFi's The Butterfield Blues Band - East West
This was the line-up who was the first to play "electric" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. This caused quite a disturbance from the folk-purists...
Recent Finds No. 72 NativeDSD Shows Again Why Not To Allow...
I so often bring to you music in ultra-high resolution, but there are so many wonderful recordings not originally recorded in DXD or DSD256. I listen...
Our Friend the Audio Analyst
E259: 2026 Florida International Audio Expo Highlights with...
Today, I join my friend and colleague Maurice Jeffries in his “New Apartment Lounge” in Orlando. We share our thoughts on some of the highlights.... . . Read More »
Our Friends at High Fidelity
R.E.D. A Few Words About How Audio is Changing
We deeply believe in "development" and "progress." Especially in audio. On the other hand, we know that newer is not always better and that old...
Spendor A4.2 Loudspeakers
Spendor is an English company specializing in the production of loudspeakers, founded in 1968 by Spencer Hughes Its first product designed for...
Show Reports
AXPONA 2026: Rooms with Aural Views: Here's My Favorite Eight!
Black velvet, acoustic-dampening curtains cover the surrounding walls of the darkened 12'x15'x8' Chesky Audio hotel room packed with guests seated in...
AXPONA 2026
AXPONA! The trade show where all the sounds and other spectaculars of the high-end audio community come together to listen, listen, and then listen...
