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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am grateful MoFi sent me Quad's flagship Platina Integrated ($5495) because by the time I got it wired up and running on three inputs, I could tell how its basic character reflected the aesthetic ...

I.R.S. Records SP70044/Interscope-Capitol Records Definitive Sound Series DSS 16 (LP; auditioned as a test pressing). 1984/2026. Don Dixon, Mitch Easter, prods ...

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 ...

Description: Three-way, floorstanding, reflex-loaded loudspeaker. Drive-units: 1" diamond-dome tweeter, 6" Kevlar FST-cone midrange unit, two 8" Rohacell-cone woofers. Crossover frequencies: 350Hz, ...

I've heard many of Christopher Hildebrand's Fern & Roby systems through the years, and this setup at AXPONA 2026 was his finest outing yet. Music had fleshy earth tones, natural projection, and ...

I performed a full set of measurements on two samples of the Benchmark AHB2 (serial nos. 14440108-0 and 14440111-0), using my Audio Precision SYS2722 system (see the January 2008 "As We See It"), and ...

Playlists embody who we are. We use musical affinities to understand (or at least categorize) others, not only as evidence of their aesthetic discernment but also of their emotional and political ...

High fidelity took a giant step forward in 1956 with Peter Walker's introduction of the Quad ESL. Walker's research efforts had been motivated by his firm belief in the superiority of the ...