Blogs
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T.H.E Show, Newport Beach, 2013: Photoblog - Electronics & Digital Source Components
|AVM displaying their wares and making a great noise! This is the second of two photoblogs from T.H.E. Show Newport Beach 2013. It focuses on electronics and digital source components from the well known to ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Hi-Fi+ Visits Naim Audio
|Based on anecdotal reports from my British colleagues, my impression is that few high-end audio brands in the UK (and by extension Europe) have as deep and committed a following as does the Salisbury, Wiltshire, ...read more -
T.H.E Show, Newport Beach 2013: Photoblog - Turntables & Speakers
|The official ribbon cutting ceremony. T.H.E Show Newport Beach 2013 was a fantastic all round experience. The show organiser, Richard Beers, recognises that home entertainment is a lifestyle, not solely limited to hi-fi, and to ...read more -
Interview: Val Kolton of V-MODA
|There’s a major misunderstanding in the world of good headphones. Many think that good-looking headphones all sound bad and the genre began when Dre met the Head Monster. In fact, although there have been fashionable ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Hi-Fi+ Visits Cambridge Audio
|During a recent trip to the U.K., I took the opportunity to visit a handful of British audio manufacturers whose products have always fascinated me and one of them is Cambridge Audio, the subject of ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Hi-Fi+ Visits Rega Research
|(Words: Chris Martens; Images: Alan Sircom) Directly after the Munich High-End show, Hi-Fi+ Editor Alan Sircom and I had an opportunity to visit the Rega Research factory on the outskirts of Southend-on-Sea, in Essex, UK. ...read more -
Munich High-End 2013 - Everything Else!
|Over the years, Munich has become the most important audio event on the hi-fi calendar in the West, arguably even surpassing CES as the prime place to show off the latest audio devices. And this ...read more -
Munich 2013 - Analogue Audio, Part 2 (Hi-Fi+)
|This is Part 2 of a two-part Hi-Fi+ report on new Analogue Audio components seen at the Munich High-End Show 2013. For the sake of simplicity, we present products in alphabetical order, organized by the ...read more -
Munich 2013 - Analogue Audio, Part 1 (Hi-Fi+)
|While many would say that ours is the age of high resolution digital audio the Munich High-End Show 2013 gave ample evidence that analogue audio and vinyl playback are not only alive and well, but ...read more -
Munich 2013 - Earphones & Headphones, Part 2 (Hi-Fi+)
|This is Part 2 of the two-part Hi-Fi+ report on Earphones, Headphones and related products seen at Munich High End 2013. For the sake of simplicity, we present products in alphabetical order, organized by the ...read more -
Munich 2013 - Earphones & Headphones, Part 1 (Hi-Fi+)
|At Munich High-End 2013, as across much of the high-end audio universe, earphones, headphones, and personal audio components claimed an increasingly large share of attention. In Europe, it would seem, high quality earphones and headphones ...read more -
Choral Evensong at Salisbury Cathedral
|The city of Salisbury is located about an hour and a half west of London and at its centre can be found the famous Salisbury Cathedral, which dates from the medieval period. During a recent ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Hi-Fi+ Visits Magnepan
|Here in the United States (my home country) the White Bear Lake, Minnesota-based loudspeaker manufacturer Magnepan enjoys a singular distinction; many members of the high-end audio press consider all three of the firm’s top models—comprising ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Hi-Fi+ Visits Audio Research Corporation
|Reviews of products from the US-based firm Audio Research Corporation have frequently graced the pages of Hi-Fi+, so that I was pleased to have the opportunity to visit the ARC factory in Plymouth, Minnesota (a ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Visits the Austin Head-Fi Meet
|The revolution will not be televised, but you can hear it… There’s a revolution going on in the world of performance-minded audio and it is taking place—and will continue to take place—with or without the ...read more