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,…

Stylish New Subwoofers Add Visual Interest to a Sound System

Breaking free of the traditional “black box” subwoofer cosmetic, Origin Acoustics debuts The Deep series of 8-, 10- and 12-inch subwoofers. Subwoofers have suffered for too long. Traditionally…

Apple Patent Shows Self Adjusting Audio System for FaceTime and HomePod

Apple’s latest patent depicts a feature wherein the future Macs will be able to adjust the audio based on their position. This is among a slew of new…

Capitol One Special Edition Audio System by Klipsch

Capitol Records have teamed up with Klipsch to create a powerful audio system that uses luxury materials such as tactile spun copper switches/knobs and real wood veneer, Capitol…