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Munich 2012, Part 2 (Electronics)
|Munich High End is a hot spot of high-end electronics, but it needn’t all be high-end. Value driven British audio brand Arcam, for example, may have been showing off its new FMJ DAC, but behind ...read more -
Munich 2012, Part 3 (Loudspeakers)
|Munich is always a fine venue for loudspeakers, especially loudspeakers on the far side of sanity. We live in a world where the majority of music now gets played on ear-buds the size of a ...read more -
Computer Audio for Beginners - Part 2 (Hi-Fi+ 86)
|Following on from Computer Audio for Beginners - Part 1, Vince Luke of AMR goes a little deeper this time, delving into the best ways to transfer CD files to computer hard drives, how to ...read more -
New York Audio and AV Show 2012
|In a way, it was badly named; there was no ‘AV’ in the New York Audio and AV Show. There was a lot of audio though, and more than 2,000 attendees. Making it one of ...read more -
Naim Audio NDS. The birth of the SuperStreamer?
|The tale was under embargo until today, but at the beginning of the week Naim Audio launched its new flagship streamer, the £6,250 Naim Audio NDS. It will be shown to the public for the ...read more -
Computer Audio for Beginners - Part 1 (Hi-Fi+ 85)
|My iPhone 4 went ‘honk honk.’ It was from my 13-year old daughter. It read, “OMG where do I put the silver CD thing and how to choose? xxx.” It was my daughter attempting to ...read more -
Headphones, Earphones & Personal Audio at CES 2012, Part 2
|This is Part 2 of a four-part Playback report and new headphone, earphone, and personal audio products seen at CES 2012. This section of the report covers products from: Cambridge Audio, Cardas, Definitive Technology, Dynaudio, ...read more -
Headphones, Earphones & Personal Audio at CES 2012, Part 1
|This is Part 1 of a four-part Playback report and new headphone, earphone, and personal audio products seen at CES 2012. This section of the report covers products from: ACS Custom, AKG, Alpha Design Labs/Furutech, ...read more -
Headphones, Earphones & Personal Audio at CES 2012, Part 3
|This is Part 3 of a four-part Playback report and new headphone, earphone, and personal audio products seen at CES 2012. This section of the report covers products from: NuForce, Paradigm Shift, Phiaton, Polk Audio, ...read more -
Headphones, Earphones & Personal Audio at CES 2012, Part 4
|This is Part 4 of a four-part Playback report and new headphone, earphone, and personal audio products seen at CES 2012. This section of the report covers products from: Skullcandy, SMS Audio, Stax, Urbanears/Zounds, Velodyne, ...read more -
First Listen: HiFiMAN HE-400 Value-Priced Planar Magnetic Headphone
|Background Those of you who have followed high-end headphone reviews in Playback over the past several years know that we have been very favorably impressed by models we have tried from Audeze and HiFiMAN. Headphones ...read more -
CES 2012 Report - Chris Martens on Loudspeakers $7000 and Below
|I’ve always believed that high-quality music reproduction should be available to the widest possible range of music lovers, and so I was delighted to learn my CES assignment was to cover loudspeakers priced at $7000/pair ...read more -
CES 2012 Report - Alan Sircom on AC Power Products, Cables and Accessories
|Given that the cable business was arguably the first to raise the stakes in the price war, this year’s launches were almost subdued. There were product launches, but new “sharp intake of breath” products were ...read more -
CES 2012 Report - Steven Stone on Digital Products
|According to CES figures 2012 was the biggest show in history, both in attendance and floor space. My sore legs testified to its vastness. The range of new digital products was also more extensive, making ...read more -
CES 2012: PSB’s Paul Barton Expands Imagine-Series Speaker Family with New T2 Floorstander
|Few speaker designers have earned a stronger reputation for delivery killer performance at value-minded prices than PSB founder Paul Barton. Well, we’re pleased to tell audiophiles on a budget that Barton is at it again ...read more