Fidelity Magazine

Ravel, Prokofiev, Hindemith, Britten, Korngold, and Richard Strauss: The great composers who wrote piano concertos for Paul Wittgenstein, the one-armed pianist

There are surprisingly many works for ...

Why does a sound pressure level of 120 decibels (dB) threaten permanent hearing damage when an ordinary conversation already registers 60dB? And why do some of us need amplifiers capable of delivering several hundred watts when we spend most of our listening time using less than one watt per channel? The math behind these apparent contradictions isn’t all that complicated – o...

Spanish joie de vivre and consummate craftsmanship meet cutting-edge technology in an elegant package: The Andalusian loudspeaker maker Kroma Atelier succeeds in combining state-of-the-art components with elements of traditional guitar-making artistry.

Everest Audio Labs Launches Ascent Music Server With Proprietary USB One Card

The latest Everest Ascent music server combines a fully linear ATX power supply, a dedicated USB interface and a custom AudioLinux operating sys...

Against a backdrop of leafless birch trees in the Finnish fall, two bizarrely appointed men stare into the camera.

Jari Salo wears a fur coat beneath a transparent raincoat, tinted seventies-style glasses on his nose and a picnic basket filled with assorted paraphernalia in his right hand. Beside him, Tomi Paajanen gawks into the distance. Over a leather jacket and jea...