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Audio Cynic #4: That’s Show Biz. —Well, It Was, Anyway.Once upon a time, there was the Consumer Electronics Show, run by the Consumer Electronics Association. Logical, right? Life made sense then, at least that part of it.  Started in 1967, CES was a trade show where manufacturers showed their latest and greatest TVs and home entertainment [...]

I'm not sure if the Big Linn Room at Vienna 2026 was really that big, but as one of the first rooms I visited at High End it certainly made an impact in a cosmic sort of way. It all goes back to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, where I was waiting for my connecting flight [...]

When I returned home from Vienna 2026 last week, I received a press release from Bill Voss, who is Business Development Manager for Technics and Panasonic in the US. Bill is directly responsible for my attitude adjustment on Technics turntables after years of bashing the direct drive SL-1200--thanks to him, I was able to spend [...]

The Alieno and Cessaro and Doehmann room at High End Vienna reminded me that even though I missed the Munich show last year, I picked up exactly where I left off in 2026--just 400 km to the east. At Munich 2024, I had wandered into this room and immediately thought to myself, "Oh, another big [...]

It was strange to walk into the Kondo room at Vienna 2026, probably the only place I get to hear Kondo equipment these days, and see the usual rarified system running through a pair of rather conventional looking two-way bookshelf speakers called the Audio Note Kondo Sumire. The dimensions of this monitor are quite different [...]