Fidelity Magazine

An overwhelming proportion of the music we listen to today comes from digital sources that require conversion to analog – and that wouldn’t be possible had not one Mr. Nyquist* recognized a fundamental principle. If you want to know not just that, but why exactly the metaphor of the stepped wave in digital music reproduction is a misconception, read on.

Icehouse should have been big. Classically trained front man Ivor Arthur “Iva” Davies had the talent, look, voice and instrumental chops to go along with his great songwriting and production. While they achieved a reasonable amount of chart success in the US and UK over their lifespan, they never really broke through (except in their native Australia).

It has power galore, offers a tonal neutrality and musicality that are simply irresistible, and is, on top of that, a sublime beauty with uncompromising build quality: the AP1 from TIDAL Audio is a statement piece for active speaker technology and could easily claim the throne in this loudspeaker category. Sitting on that throne, however, is its majestic big sister, the Royal...

DALI Introduces Basik Sub Compact Subwoofer for Music and Home Cinema

DALI has introduced the Basik Sub, a compact active subwoofer designed to add low-frequency output to bookshelf speaker systems used for music and movie...

The fact that these planar magnetostatic speakers throw music into the listening room with such plasticity despite their slender physical form seems almost otherworldly … all the more so because their pricing is anything but unreasonable.