The flagship Marantz SR8012 A/V receiver is a wolf in wolf’s clothing
Marantz’s new flagship and step-down receivers are fully loaded for virtually any scenario, with support for everything from 4K and Dolby Atmos surround to Alexa and multiroom audio….
Bose SoundLink Revolve+ review: Excellent sound at a premium price
Bose has always been known for making products with excellent audio quality and a stellar build with a high sticker price to match. The Bose SoundLink Revolve +…
Marantz 1060 solid state integrated amp circa 1975 Integrated Amplifiers
I now have the dream system of my youth in 1975! Back then I spent my money on speakers and bought a pair of used KEF 104s at…
Legends of High-End Audio: Saul Marantz
We present very brief excerpts from a few of the extended profiles, interviews, and archival photography that comprise The Absolute Sound’s Illustrated History of High-End Audio, Volume Two:…
Sony MHC-V50D Home Audio System Review: The big boom pow!
Home audio products come in all shapes and sizes, and you can get you’re a speaker that’s anything from pocketable to furniture-replacing. Of course, the bigger they come,…
What a $120,000 sound system sounds like
The “music room” is mostly all white with high ceilings and blank white canvas panels on the walls. There is a big record-cleaning machine, a turntable, two speakers,…
NEAR Introduces Two New NEARSCAPES Landscape Audio Systems
August 2017 – NEAR introduced two new satellite/subwoofer landscape speaker systems of exceptional performance, beauty, and flexibility – the NEARSCAPES™ IG44.1 and the NEARSCAPES IG44.1DSP. The new models…
Comedian Lepacious Bose new look in 2017
One of the requirements of modern beauty is a slender physical form. In fact, this is not just a fad of fashion and designers, but also a recommendation…
ELAC Uni-Fi Slim 5.1 Speaker System Review
The ELAC Uni-Fi Slim 5.1 Speaker system’s headlining feature is the use of an in-house-designed concentric (combination tweeter and midrange) driver for the bookshelf and center speakers. Andrew…
Samsung is working with Harman Kardon to Deliver a Market Leading Smart Speaker System for the Home in 2018
Patently Apple posted three reports (01, 02 and 03) last month on the news that Samsung will soon be entering the smart speaker business to compete with Apple,…