Blogs
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Making a Statement
|Naim Audio has been building audio electronics since the 1970s. So, it knows a thing or two about handling the products it’s building. But when you move into making an amplifier of the size, scale, ...read more -
Bristol Sound & Vision Show 2015
|The Bristol Show (more formally, The Sound & Vision Show) runs at the tail end of February at the Marriott City Centre hotel near Bristol’s Cabot Circus development. Now in its 27th year, the show ...read more -
First Listen: Aurender Flow portable headphone amp/DAC/preamp
|Most audiophiles associate the name Aurender with the firm’s range of highly accomplished music servers, and rightly so. More than many competitors in the field, Aurender has demonstrated that it is keenly attuned to the ...read more -
Headroom Show
|Over the last two days in January, West London became the nerve centre of all things headphone-related, as the new Headroom Show descended on Chiswick’s prestigious Metropolis Studios. While the two studios, two control rooms, ...read more -
Walls of Sound
|The Walls Of Sound system does not lend itself to a normal review. It’s an in-wall system, designed with stereo parameters – rather than home cinema impressiveness – in mind. The ‘designed for stereo’ part ...read more -
CES: Highlights from everywhere else!
|There are no right ways for reporters to divide up a show like CES. There are only variations on the theme of ‘wrong’. Everyone needs a specific ‘beat’, but whether you divide the show by ...read more -
CES: Highlights from the Venetian Floor 29 - The Full Works!
|The 29th floor of the Venetian Tower is one of the crucibles of high-end audio. It’s commonly considered the place for audiophile start-ups, the best spot for lower and mid-priced brands, the venue for cable ...read more -
CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 – Electronics, Source Components, and Servers/Streamers
|Most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the aforementioned upper floors of the Venetian Hotel, although by tradition some high-end headphone manufacturers continue to exhibit in the LVCC’s South Hall. Added to this, there ...read more -
CES: Highlights from the Venetian and LVCC South Hall – Headphones and Related Electronics
|This year at CES Hi-Fi+ decided to try a new approach, assigning representatives to cover specific geographic areas of the show for reporting purposes. Happily, most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the upper ...read more -
CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 - Loudspeakers
|For those Hi-Fi+ readers who might never have had the opportunity to attend CES, let me try to give you some idea of the sheer magnitude of the event. CES sprawls across four large convention ...read more -
Postcards from Las Vegas (part two)
|In Part 1 of our ‘Postcards from Las Vegas” series, Hi-Fi+ Editor Alan Sircom provides and excellent overview of the 2015 CES event. For my part of the article, however, I thought I might provide ...read more -
Postcards from Las Vegas (part one)
|CES is the annual hub for consumer electronics. The world’s technology makers, sellers, and press are all assembled together for a week in early January, to paw over the latest (and occasionally greatest) consumer electronics ...read more -
CES 2015 preview
|Audio is not the slow-moving stream it once was. The rate of change has stepped up considerably of late, and there will be many products and concepts shown at this year’s CES. We get dozens ...read more -
2014 high-end audio highlights - and all that!
|At the end of a year, it’s customary to look back on the past 12 months and look forward to what’s coming in the next 12. Audio is generally a slower moving stream than many ...read more -
First Listen: LH Labs Geek Out 1000 USB dongle-type headphone amp/DAC
|A number of months back, some of you may recall a surge of Internet buzz surrounding the LH Labs Geek Out—a small, but powerful and very high-quality USB-powered, dongle-type headphone amp/DAC. Part of what drew ...read more