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A new city and a new venue meant a challenging two days of orientation for show reporters, but with a lot of schlepping, I found my way around the vast Austria Centre and a couple of satellite events and heard some often expensive, sometimes truly great sounds at this year's HIGH END. Here are the highlights. "Vienna brought a different energy to the show — a blend of imper...

The fascinating thing about reviewing Triangle Art's L-200 MK2 vacuum tube preamplifier is that it's a tube pre-amp… and that I know, when I agree to review it, that this review will not get half the readership to click on it because it has the word "tube" in it. And I will lose even more because Triangle Art is not a mainstream name and many do not recognize it. So, for the...

For a normal, healthy young person, the generally accepted frequency range of human hearing is said to be from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Before the term "Hertz" (Hz) came into use to honor Heinrich Hertz ( the man who proved Maxwell's wave theory correct), sound frequencies were expressed in "cycles" per second, with one cycle being the complete cycle of the air pressures making up a...

Editorial: Do We Audiophiles Have Too Many Choices?

Linn 360 Active Loudspeaker System With Pistonik Drive Technology

Rega Planar 6 RS Vinyl LP Turntable

Innuos Nazaré Digital Audio Music Server

Analog Relax EX300 Moving Coil (MC) Cartridge

Triangle Capella 2Active Stand-Mount Speaker Streaming System

Allnic Audio ASRA RHPA-750...

It's interesting, isn't it, that retro hi-fi is resurging as listeners crave tactile, (perhaps) warm sound and exceptional craftsmanship, which is driving younger buyers and renewed industry attention. The comeback of luxury home audio is not a nostalgic footnote; it is a cultural and market movement reshaping how people listen, collect, and value sound. Portable CD (SACD) p...