Horn manufacturer Cessaro brought the four-way Gamma 2 speaker system with an added horn loaded active sub-woofer, good for 300.000 euros. Driving force behind the speakers was a pair of parallel single end mono amplifiers […]
dCS had another great show, as a matter of fact I cannot recall of a poor show for dCS in recent times, not even a mediocre one for the matter. Similar to last year’s set […]
At BMW World, far away from the hustle and bustle of Munich High-End, the Sound Galleries team presented their own developed SGM-2015 music server. The quietness of the event venue, with its large size, allowed […]
MQA is becoming a reality; the company has a new partner under Brinkmann Audio who despite being a world-class leader in turntable design has a history on digital audio as well with the “Zenith”, a […]
Jacek Gawlovsky might not ring a bell for you, or me for the matter, as I do not follow-up closely the pro audio scene, but he is a much respected sound engineer, with a Grammy […]
High-end audio is a run for who makes the biggest speakers, amplifiers, and of course turntables. As of 2016, the trophy for the biggest, meanest, spinner goes to the Acoustical Systems Apolyt, which sets new […]
This was a great show for Blumenhofer Acoustics, and the matching with Air Tight was the best I’ve heard in recent times. Not that other years they offered bad sound, but this time around the pair […]
Here is for something different — a new company called Mo Sound coming from Austria and making speaker cabinets from porcelain. The motto of the company is catchy, show some cojones: buy our little extravagant, […]
Many designers reserve the same room year in year out in Munich’s High End show and this helps a bit, It lets me move as a heat seeking missile on day one, pointing straight to […]
British turntable specialist AVID is pushing hard to become one of those companies with a complete line up, after last year when they introduced reference pre and power amplifiers it was the turn of speakers. […]
Visited the room on day one, and it was already sounding good. Very good. My initial thought was that this was the best I’ve heard EAR Yoshino electronics sound in shows for a while now. […]
Ypsilon Electronics introduced the Hyperion mono power amps — and they sound gorgeous. Paired with a pair of Wilson Alexia, the new Hyperion monos were authoritative on low registers, yet still remained delicate and tactile on […]
Last year, this was a room that came pretty close to being theBest In Show, only it performed inside a prefabricated ground-floor Hall room, which was inadequate for any serious listening impressions. I even made half […]
Metaxas has achieved quasi-legendary status as a recording engineer and his amplifier designs always had a cult following. After years without doing anything tangible for the high-end market, he has finally returned with refined versions of […]
If you are anywhere close to the sound of tubes this was among the best rooms of the show. Legendary Japanese manufacturer of tube amplifiers Kondo paired with a pair of Kaiser Kawero speakers for […]
Nagra has been around since decades, all the way back to the ‘50s. During the first decades it became famous for battery-operated reel-to-reel recorders which were industry-standard for cinema and TV production. Since then, the […]
Bowers & Wilkins opted for the historic Bayerischer Hof Hotel, established in 1841 after a direct request by King Ludwig for a fancy hotel where the generations to come would introduce their speakers! The press-only event was […]
Dr Karavitis had clued me in early — “You have to go check out our friends at Tune Audio. They’ve done … something. Something crazy.” Well, if that couldn’t whet my appetite (and by “whet”, I […]
Showing with Piega loudspeakers and AudioQuest cables, AURALiC front man Xuanqian Wang was demoing his new combo DAC-streamer, the $1,900 Altair. Altair is a combo of the Aries and VEGA, in a more affordable, streamlined, […]
Scot is flying towards Munich; I will be doing the same at dawn. I hate flying that early and would do it for one reason only. It’s that time of the year. The biggest kermesse […]
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