Behind Bombard are Loïc De Buck and Stijn Dauwe, two friends whose backgrounds include sound engineering, product design, and ...

I'd come to the Netherlands to cover the Dutch Audio Event, a show that has grown to be one of continental Europe's largest ...

Launched in 1967, Quad's highly original, elegantly styled 33 preamplifier and 303 power amplifier were Quad's first all solid state designs and among the first solid state separates. The 303 may have ...

I heard my first genuinely awesome hi-fi through a pair of Tannoy speakers. The 15" Monitor Blacks were installed in wardrobe-sized Siemens cabinets that the owner had wrangled from a decommissioned ...

A phono cartridge is a mechanical-electrical thing with a single job: tracking a squiggly spiral groove as accurately as possible and converting that mechanical tracking into an electrical signal.

Holst: The Planets, Bax: Tintagel, London Symphony Orchestra, Tenebrae/Sir Antonio Pappano; Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas, Andrew Wan, Charles Richard-Hamelin; Jonas Kaufmann: Magische Töne, Jonas ...

Four years ago last August, I went to Port Washington, New York, on Long Island, to visit the North Shore Animal League America's (NSALA's) adoption shelter. It was a memorable day: We brought home ...

Just when I thought my equipment reviewing schedule was locked in for many months, an unavoidable last-minute cancellation sent me scrambling for an alternative. Jim Austin to the rescue. To his query ...

When I reviewed the M5 bookshelf speaker from British manufacturer Epos (Stereophile, April 2005, Vol.28 No.4), I was sufficiently impressed with that $650/pair design by Mike Creek that I chose it as ...

When a loudspeaker is measured, the underlying assumption is that the distance from the speaker to the microphone is significantly greater than the largest dimension of the speaker's drive-unit array.

Over and over, I'm listening to John Coltrane's tenor-sax solo in "I Wanna Talk About You," from The Gentle Side of John Coltrane (LP, Impulse! ASH-9306-2). I keep asking myself: Have I ever heard a ...

Ken Micallef and Miguel Barrio welcome one and all to our upcoming in-depth AXPONA 2026 coverage. Ken, Miguel, and Rogier van Bakel will be conducting show interviews and showing us lots of great new ...