“You’ll notice when you play it. You hit this pedal on and your amp just becomes huge… It’s just this big, big sound”: EarthQuaker Devices and Dr Z team up for a tube …
The ZEQD-Pre has an EF86 pentode just like Dr Z’s sweet high-end amps, and it might just give your rig the analogue warmth, colour, and hifi sheen you’ve…
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (EoL) of the expensive home theater …
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of EoL
In October, Bose announced that its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars would become dumb speakers on February 18. At the time, Bose said that the speakers would only…
A beloved desktop speaker system from the early 2000s gets a modern hi-fi overhaul
Originally released in the 2000s, the speaker-and-subwoofer combo has a futuristic, transparent design that earned it a place in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). And, because it…
A British hi-fi great just introduced a stunning bookshelf speaker system
At CES 2026, the revered British audio maker is introducing its first active stereo speaker system, designed for modern audiophiles who want a plug-and-play hi-fi system that looks…
Klipsch Just Revamped Its Popular Bookshelf Speakers With Japanese Hi-Fi Engineering
In 2020, Klipsch introduced The Fives, a highly versatile powered bookshelf speaker system with a vintage-inspired design. It had numerous wired connections — in fact, it was the…