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The Hi-Fi+ Directory of High-End Audio Manufacturers, 2019
|We’ve selected and showcased the work of 32 of the finest manufacturers in high-end audio in our exclusive guide. Regardless of price, product type, or brand name, we’ve uncovered the most exciting and innovative companies ...read more -
Vicoustic Multifuser DC2 room treatment panels
|About a year and a half ago I moved to a new, downsized home that had a listening space whose acoustic characteristics I did not fully understand. The room is a second storey space and ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Accessories and Power Products
|Accessory Vicoustic Multifuser DC 2 The Portuguese firm Vicoustic aims to “provide the best products for acoustic treatment” with the goal of “enhancing rooms for great sound combined with the best possible design.” A fine ...read more -
ARTNOVION LAUNCHES EIGER ABSORBER
|Artnovion combines art and innovation to create the most beautiful and effective wall and ceiling panels designed to improve the acoustics in any room. The addition of the new Eiger Absorber wall panels completes the ...read more -
Artnovion - ACOUSTIC AESTHETICS
|Artnovion combines art and innovation to create the most beautiful and effective acoustic panels. Artnovion’s High End collection is designed for residential and commercial properties, and delivers a dramatically improved audio performance as well as ...read more -
Synergistic Research system tuning (Part 2)
|Last month, we discussed the first of a two-part feature on Synergistic Research’s innovative system tuning components. At that point, we began by discussing the company’s Unified Energy Field system. The next step was to ...read more -
Synergistic Research system tuning (Part 1)
|Back in March this year, the Hi-Fi+ listening room was given the Synergistic treatment. Ted Denney of Synergistic Research flew over for a few days to walk us through a range of the company’s system ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Products of the Year: Ancilliary components
|Accessory of the Year Joint winner: Townshend Seismic Podiums Townshend Audio has been concerned with low-frequency resonance in audio systems for years, but the company’s previous attempts at a ‘fix’ have been difficult for domestic ...read more -
GIK ACOUSTICS EXPANDS ALPHA WOOD SERIES
|ATLANTA, GA (February 3, 2016) – Leading acoustic treatment manufacturer GIK Acoustics is proud to announce the expansion of the Alpha Wood Series to include larger panels as well as corner bass traps. GIK first ...read more -
Stillpoints Apertures acoustic panels
|Many years ago, I decided that my ear and brain were the best acoustic treatments sound could get. The thing with acoustic treatments in general is that dealing with one area often merely shifts the ...read more -
GIK ACOUSTICS-EUROPE LAUNCHES ALL NEW ALPHA WOOD SERIES
|BRADFORD, UK (19 October 2015) – Leading acoustic treatment manufacturer GIK Acoustics has announced the launch of a new product series that is changing the face of acoustic panels and bass traps. First introduced in ...read more -
GIK Acoustics Room Kit Package 3 room acoustic treatment
|It sounds so utilitarian – ‘Room Kit Package 3’ could be something Winston Smith might receive from the Ministry of Plenty in exchange for a smaller Victory Gin ration in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. But GIK ...read more -
Room acoustics without tears
|Of all the chronic problems endemic with the audiophile experience, the thorny subject of room acoustics is perhaps the most intractable. Traditionally, hi-fi enthusiasts have spent a disproportionately large amount of time and money focused ...read more -
Room treatment case study – Acustica Applicata DaaD system
|As this is an audiophile magazine, I thought our first physical room treatment product here would be distinctly audiophile in nature – Acustica Applicata’s DaaD system. The Italian company makes elegant treatment towers in broadly ...read more -
Art and AcousticsArt and Acoustics
|At best most acoustic treatments are boring. At worst they’re downright ugly. Art and Acoustics is one man’s attempt to remedy this situation. Sharing a room with ModWright Instruments Inc. at the Venetian Tower 30-227 ...read more