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Hi-Fi Centre Grand Opening
February 27, 2015 proved an unexpectedly warm and sunny day in Vancouver, Canada – the perfect foreshadowing for an equally stunning experience that evening at Hi-Fi Centre’s grand opening...
View ArticleOPPO HA-2 Headphone Amplifier Flyby
We just popped OPPO’s HA-2 headphone amplifier out of the box and it’s a beauty. Here’s a quick peek. Looking more like something Q would give James Bond to trounce an enemy than a piece of consumer...
View ArticleSometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Courtney Barnett makes it virtually impossible to listen to her outstanding full-length debut while doing something else. Forget about experiencing it as background noise, or even texting as it plays....
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Features Old School: The Harmon Kardon 730 By Jeff Dorgay Personal Fidelity: Aurender Flow By John Darko Cardas EM5813 Ear Speakers By Mark Marcantonio 995: Arcam irDAC By Mark Marcantonio TONE Style...
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In Search of the Ultimate Listening Chair
I’ll bet you have more than a few sets of great interconnects and power cords, but you probably don’t have a great listening chair. For the guys in the audience, this might be a good bonding experience...
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Blumenstein Audio 2.2-Channel Speaker Package
The modest-looking speakers from Blumenstein Audio belie the capabilities contained therein. We’ve reviewed the Seattle company’s Thrashers, speakers light on looks but heavy on ready-to-rock,...
View ArticleLightning Bolt
For more than two decades, Lightning Bolt has embraced barely controlled chaos as a secret ingredient and ear-shredding volume as an invisible third member of the band. Legendary in noise-rock circles,...
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GamuT M250i Mono Power Amplifiers – PREVIEW
Many know GamuT for their range of loudspeakers that combine gorgeous Danish cabinet design, with advanced Danish driver technology. We have used their past S9 flagship as a reference here for years...
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Octave HP700 Preamplifier – PREVIEW
Some of you might freak out that the HP700 features tone controls, but Octave has included those and more in their flagship HP700 Preamplifier. Like their Phonomodule we reviewed a couple of years...
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Gryphon Kalliope DAC – PREVIEW
Flemming Rassmussen builds some of the most technologically advanced audio components in the world and some of the most beautiful. The casework, bathed in black with its fine extrusions only hint at...
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Harman Kardon 730
When I was graduating from high school in 1976, what I wanted most was a Harman Kardon 730, a pair of JBL L100s and a Technics SL1200 turntable. That was my dream system. The 730 went for about $400,...
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WireWorld Pulse 2 interconnects – Preview
Wanna make that $1,400 Astell & Kern player sound a lot better? Grab the new WireWorld Pulse 2. In a world of mega expensive cable, that everyone loves to complain about, a mere $40 will take the...
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Dali Epicon 8 Speakers – Preview
A recent visit to the Dali factory in Denmark revealed a nearly 250,000 square foot facility full of highly skilled workers dedicated to every aspect of loudspeaker design and construction. The...
View ArticleWaxahatchee – Ivy Trip
Katie Crutchfield, who performs under the guise of Waxahatchee, is what it might sound like if a bundle of nerves could talk. On her group’s third and most structured album, Ivy Tripp, the Alabama...
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Kickstart(er) Our Heart and a PRINT Issue
Many readers have told us we should put the magazine in print. With your help and support we going for it! You have always come to us for content, so it’s time we come to you. Today, we went live with...
View ArticleKickstarter campaign for TONEAudio in PRINT
Today is a big day in our history. Based on all our reader feedback, we decided to post a Kickstarter campaign to fund and print a 10th Anniversary Issue. Please check out our campaign page,share it...
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EgglestonWorks Emma Loudspeakers
Great things come from Memphis. It’s the BBQ capitol of the world. Elvis is from Memphis. My wife is from Memphis. And the Eggleston Emmas are from Memphis. Though the price of gasoline and big screen...
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Arcam irDAC
There’s something about visual and operational simplicity that resonates with me, which is why I’m drawn to Arcam’s irDAC ($700), an understated unit about the size of a John Grisham paperback novel....
View ArticleMastodon – Blood Mountain
Released nearly a decade ago, Mastodon’s landmark concept album about scaling a bewildering peak—and encountering bloodthirsty wolves, unified tree-people colonies, and ice gods—has been recently...
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Simaudio MOON Nēo 260D CD Transport/DAC
With more and more audiophiles getting into digital music these days, it is no wonder that many manufacturers are releasing CD players that are also high-quality DACs. Canada’s MOON by Simaudio has...
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