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WOLF VON LANGA Serendipity
WOLF VON LANGA’s latest loudspeaker, intriguingly named Serendipity, boasts numerous unorthodox technical refinements. As soon as you remove the WOLF VON LANGA Serendipity from its transport packaging you know it’s an unconventional loudspeaker. The chasses are distributed across three sides...
Ypsilon Phaethon
Moving two steps forwards sometimes requires taking one step backwards. For Ypsilon developer Demetris Backlavas, innovation doesn’t necessarily mean exploiting the latest technologies. He believes it can be achieved by reinventing the things we are already familiar with – yielding...
TW Acoustic Raven Black Night
TW Acustic Raven Black Night The raven is the largest member of its genus and has been revered as a bird of the gods by some cultures. Let’s find out if TW Acustic family’s primus Raven Black Night is also...
Musical Fidelity M6x DAC
No, Europe does not need to catch up in the digital field: The M6x DAC should easily hold its own at the top of the world – and still doesn’t cost the earth. A DAC is a DAC is a...
FIDELITY visit to Piega in Horgen, Switzerland
How do you renew a traditional company without endangering old values? Piega has succeeded in this tricky balancing act. The brand was handed over to the next generation, creating space for innovative and fresh wind. But as soon as the...
And eternally the universe sings
Somewhere behind the Milky Way, a black hole sings. Strictly speaking, all black holes sing. To de this, they let stars, planets or whole galaxies explode. The resulting pressure waves are sound waves, but nobody can hear them because sound...
50 Years of Rega
Roy Gandy is not a person who could be accused of arrogance: As he himself describes, he learned two things in his childhood: One, that it is always possible to find the answer to a question, and two, that no...
AXPONA 2023
AXPONA 2023 wrapped up just under two weeks ago, treating music lovers, audiophiles and technology enthusiasts to three days of exceptional sound, technology, seminars, live music and equipment news. As usual, the show was held at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention...
Mulligan plays Mulligan
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a few highlights of jazz history we may have missed. The record Mulligan plays Mulligan really shouldn’t exist. In the official...
Kapustin, A Bu - New Memories
At the age of nine, he was admitted to the Beijing Conservatory, but that was not enough for him. Along the way, he learned jazz and Latin piano, soon leading his own trio at Beijing’s “Blues Club.” At 14, A...
Giant Steps!
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too. The covered cover: Is it a witty reference, respectful homage or parody? Or is there a deeper meaning behind it?...
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Forever Young – celebrating a classic album’s 50th anniversary Today’s scandals of the “royals” are nothing compared to Henry the Eighth in the 16th century. This English king was married no less than six times. Because no son was born...
Musical Fidelity LS 3/5A
A classic monitor marks Musical Fidelity’s re-entry into the loudspeaker market. The initial role of the LS 3/5A was that of a versatile monitor for listening in broadcasting vans in Britain. Slowly but steadily, audiophiles realized this speaker’s qualities, especially...
Meridian DSP9 Loudspeaker
Revealed at High End Munich, the ‘Undeniably Meridian’ DSP9 loudspeaker signifies a new dawn for the company. Marking a new chapter for Meridian, the British Audio Technology Pioneer has unveiled the DSP9 Digital Active Loudspeaker, a masterpiece of product design...
Chord Ultima Integrated
Five years since the introduction of the Ultima, Chord Electronics’ most accomplished amplifier topology in its history, the Kent company has trickled the technology down into an integrated amplifier for the first time, thus setting new performance standards for single-box...
Audio Group Denmark at the High End 2023
Audio Group Denmark presents the new brand Axxess, three new Børresen loudspeaker models, a third generation Ansuz equipment, and the new Aavik SD-880 Streamer/DAC at the High End 2023. The largest and most important hi-fi event in the world, High...