2L Records Release Piano Music of Edvard Grieg on Blu-ray and SACD in Surround.

The magic of a "time machine" brings Percy Grainger's original performance back to life in this modern surround-sound recording with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rolf Gupta. Edvard Grieg himself bears witness to the validity and authenticity of Grainger's......Read More

Aerosmith To Replace Steven Tyler As Frontman?

Classic rock super-group Aerosmith is reported to be looking for a new frontman to replace the iconic and enthusiastic Steven Tyler. After a drug-induced collapse of the band in the late 1970s, the group cleaned up and had a nearly......Read More

Audyssey Labs' New Stand-alone Sub EQ

Audyssey just announced the new Audyssey Sub Equalizer, the latest in a series of professional room calibration tools in the company's product lineup. The Sub Equalizer uses the award-winning MultEQ XT Technology to correct the most difficult problem in home......Read More

Audyssey Room Correction Going Into New Jaguars

Audyssey just announced that Jaguar Cars is the first auto manufacturer to introduce a car tuned with the industry defining Audyssey MultEQ XT technology. MultEQ is an innovative acoustical correction technology that enables Jaguar to easily calibrate the sound system......Read More

AV Identity Crisis: Radio Shack and Wilson Audio Abandon Well Known Names

On August 6, 2009 with great fanfare (including the creation of two giant 17 foot laptop computers) one of the most familiar names in consumer electronics retail, Radio Shack, changed their name to "The Shack." Radio Shack is one of......Read More

AV Manufacturers Need To "Floor" High-End AV Gear for Dealers as Part of an AV Stimulus Plan

Getting a loan anywhere these days is pretty damn hard. If you are looking to buy a bargain-priced home and need a jumbo loan, expect to have upwards of 50 percent of the money you need up front for a......Read More

Ayre Acoustics First To License Wavelength Audio's USB DAC Technology

High end audio brand, Ayre Acoustics is the first licensee of Wavelength Audio's new "asynchronous" USB technology called Streamlength software. USB Technology is needed to connect Apple iPods, iPhones and other computer based sources with more traditional audiophile products. With......Read More

Can The Home Theater Business Re-price Itself Back Into The Hearts and Wallets of Consumers?

This recession is a bitch. The talking heads on the Sunday morning shows were shooting off this weekend about the fact that the American economy was headed into recession no matter what, but the collapse of the real estate market......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Andrew Robinson

While not quite as jammed packed or exciting as previous years, CEDIA 2009 still proved to be the place to be for new product launches, as understated as those launches may have been. Before I get into what excited me......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Jerry Del Colliano

For most of the past decade CEDIA has been picking up steam while the winter Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has struggled with its identity as it struggled to digest COMDEX and the computer geeks that came along with the merger.......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Ken Taraszka, MD

CEDIA has been blowing up with new video technology over the last few years. 1080p was the big news just years ago, and while talk of 2K, 1440p and other formats have been thrown around and to some extent even......Read More

Consolidation Is Taking the "Special" Out of Specialty Audio-Video

I remember the first time I met Mark Cuban. My father, when he was the publisher of radio trade publication Inside Radio, ran a high end convention for top level radio executives that featured speakers like Peter Drucker and Steven......Read More

Dynaudio To Distribute Octave Audio Electronics in the United States and Canada

Dynaudio North America recently announced that it has been appointed as the distributor for Octave Audio for the USA and Canada. Octave Audio, based in Karslbad-Ittersbach Germany, has been producing high-end tube electronics for over 20 years. Octave was actually......Read More

Dynaudio's Puccini Sound System For The New Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport

When launched, the Bugatti Veyron set new benchmarks in engineering and performance for a Super Sport, so when developing an audio system for the new Bugatti Grand Sport only the best would do. The all-new Puccini Sound System features dedicated......Read More

Electrocompaniet's New High End Internet and HD Radio Tuner With Balanced Outputs

Electrocompaniet recently introduced their new ECR 1 Tuner. This model has been developed to extend the Electrocompaniet product range with a long awaited FM/RDS/HD/Internet radio for audiophile and home theater applications. A fully fledged 192kHz/24bit DAC section including sample rate......Read More

Going Direct - The Gold Rush in Today's Specialty Audio-Video Business Has a New Set Of Rules

The boo-hooing about how bad the economy has been for the past year or longer continues on with most companies blindly cutting marketing, advertising, development and human resource costs as a desperate act of survival. Bean counters are now corporate......Read More

Goldmund Offers Limited Edition "5000 Watt" Telos Power Amps

Goldmund recently announced the Telos 5000 power amplifiers for consumption by their very well heeled clients and audio collectors. The Goldmund Telos mono amps will be limited to 20 pairs for worldwide consumption. The Goldmund Telos 5000 power amps reportedly......Read More

HD Giants Files Chapter 11

HD Giants, the company founded to sell high definition music to the burgeoning Media Center PC market, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company known for its Airstream trailer demo and its often 96 kHz 24 bit resolution tracks......Read More

Krell Introduces New S-275 and S-150M Power Amps

Krell Industries, Inc. just introduced two new S Series amplifiers, the S-275 and S-150M. Designed with modern day space constraints in mind; the S-275 and S-150M deliver legendary Krell amplifier performance in new slim line designs. The S-275 and S-150......Read More

Krell To Recall Four Amp Products

Leading audiophile company, Krell, based in Orange, Conecticut, will immediately recall four amlifiers. The amps include the Krell KAV-250a, KAV-250a/3, KAV-500i, KAV-1500 This recall effects units manufactured between January 1997 and February 2001. These amplifiers were designed to operate at......Read More

Marantz Releases New Audiophile Grade High-end SACD Player and Integrated Amp

Marantz America is celebrating 30 years of visionary guidance from its legendary audio designer Ken Ishiwata, with the unveiling of two audiophile components, the KI Pearls. The new KI Pearl units, including the SA-KI Pearl SACD Player ($2,999) and the......Read More

Marantz Will Offer Coffee Table Book and SACD Disc To Promote New Audiophile Pearl Products

Marantz America just announced that it is supporting the launch of its highly anticipated KI Pearl Hi-Fi components with an elegant hardcover coffee-table book (MSRP: $29.99) and specially created dual-layer SACD (MSRP: $49.99) which celebrate the 30th anniversary of its......Read More

Marilyn Manson, Santana, Billy Idol and Earth Wind & Fire Coming To Blu-ray

Eagle Rock Entertainment will be delivering performances from Earth, Wind, & Fire, Carlos Santana, Billy Idol, and Marilyn Manson are released just in time for the holidays. Blu-ray discs will retail for $24.95. In 1997, funk-soul collective Earth, Wind, &......Read More

Meridian Offers Summer Trade-up Promotion

Meridian Audio has announced that it is offering owners of its CD players and Surround Sound Controllers a unique opportunity to trade-up to a higher level of performance this summer. The "Excellence to Perfection Program" will run from June 15th......Read More

Meridian Reveals the Next Gen Meridian Sooloos: Sooloos 2.0

Meridian, next week will debut an exciting series of updates that dramatically increase the power and flexibility of the Meridian Sooloos media-management system. A Meridian Sooloos system creates a centralized, shared source of music for everyone in the home with......Read More

Michael Jackson Dead At 50

Rock/pop Superstar, Michael Jackson, is dead at 50 according to reports on the AP wire. Jackson, a child star featured in the group The Jackson 5, was one of the brightest stars American pop music has ever seen.  The......Read More

Musical Innovator and Guitarist Les Paul Dead at 94

Jazz-rock guitarist Les Paul died today from complications related to peneumonia. Paul was 94 years old. As an inventor, Les Paul was the first to make popular the solid body guitar, which brought a sound and power to the instrument......Read More

NAD Introduces M2 Direct Digital Amplifier

NAD Electronics just introduced the Masters Series M2 Direct Digital Amplifier, delivering in the culmination of a decade long research project a new level of amplifier performance. Very powerful, dynamic, efficient, and musically revealing, the M2 is a true digital......Read More

NAD Introduces Modular Audiophile Preamp- Tuner-Processor

NAD Electronics just introduced its powerful T 175 Preamp-Tuner-Processor, designed for demanding audiophiles. Packed with new features and technologies, it fully leverages NAD's three decades of experience, delivering a very advanced audio component. The T 175 embodies NAD's core values......Read More

Oppo Offers Special Edition Of Their BDP-83 Blu-ray Universal Player

The OPPO BDP-83 Special Edition Blu-ray Disc Player is a new upgraded unit based on the highly acclaimed BDP-83. Already well known for its critically acclaimed audio and video performance, the BDP-83 is upgraded with an all new analog audio......Read More

PurePower Introduces 2000 Watt AC Regenerator For High End AV Systems

Audiophile grade AC power company, PurePower just started shipping its most powerful regenerator, the Model 2000. The Model 2000 (MSRP $2,995) outputs over 2000 Watts of perfect, isolated, battery reference power. Model 2000 has 10 receptacles, the 1050 ($2,495) and......Read More

R.E.M To Release Reckoning and Murmur On 180 Gram Vinyl

In a recent trend that shows a small volume (but large percentage) uptick in sales for vinyl - the original "emo band" R.E.M. is set to release its critically acclaimed album Reckoning and Murmur. The releases will be on audiophile......Read More

Rotel's New 15 Series Audiophile Two-Channel Components

Rotel recently introduced a number of new two channel components: Integrated amp, CD Player, stereo and power preamplifiers that are designed for the value conscious consumer with a taste for truly refined sound. Stereo Integrated Amplifier The RA-1520 is a......Read More

The $2,500 and Under Room - How To Sell Audiophile Gear To a New Generation of 200,000,000 Music Lovers

Boy did I ever grab the attention of the dealers in America during these hot summer months. I have received dozens of emails from AV retailers around the country objecting to calling (in general terms) dealers "lazy" and "entitled" while......Read More

The 10 Best Audiophile Speakers List - 2009

I recently read a blog post by a very enthusiastic and well respected AV writer who created a list of "The Top Ten Greatest Audiophile Speakers" for the mighty CNET.com which is one monster of a web publication. While the......Read More

The Lost Art of The High End Audio-Video Demo

In my career in ultra-high-end audiophile retail at Christopher Hansen Ltd. in Beverly Hills and Mark Levinson's Cello Music and Film Los Angeles I was blessed to work with some of the best audio-video demo artists of all time. Anybody......Read More

Wireworld Introduces New Glass Optical Cables For Use With Mac Computers

Wireworld has introduced a new series of optical digital cables that utilize conductors made of 280 glass fibers, rather than the common plastic monofilament conductor, to provide improved sound quality in home theater, computer audio and professional audio applications. In......Read More