The scientist who helped develop the Harman target revisited listener data and still recommends two broad tone controls.

Its economics add another layer. Audioholics says major brands can operate on 40- to 60-point margins and gives one example where a $600 retail speaker may contain roughly $60 in drivers and crossover ...

Audiophiles have used words like “glassy” and “hard” to describe unpleasant treble for decades, so glass arrives as a speaker material with a reputation already attached to it. That reputation matters ...

A regular player isn't worse for having more inside it. The budget just gets split across everything it does, and your DAC decides if you'll notice.

One designer says that arrival is the sound of something going wrong. Szymon Rutkowski of Graphite Audio says metal, ceramic and bearing-based supports can introduce a character of their own. If so, ...

The LS50 Meta solves one small-room problem at the driver itself. Its tweeter sits in the center of the mid/bass cone, so both radiate from nearly the same point. That gives the speaker unusually even ...

iPhones make the 48 kHz part simpler. Apple’s own documentation says Apple Music Lossless ranges from CD-quality 16-bit/44.1 kHz up to 24-bit/192 kHz, with an [external DAC required for songs above 48 ...

Langer also sells direct-drive turntables inspired by Dual’s 1980s 7-series, listed from €7,900 to €16,990 (roughly US$9,000–$20,000, depending on exchange rates). His commercial interest is worth ...

A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with no dedicated DAC chip sounds like a contradiction. XMOS has built one anyway. Its ...

Extra conversion and uneven results across listening seats remain separate concerns that ART’s narrower approach cannot ...

Expensive CD players can still depend on optical hardware designed for computers. Naim has never identified the drive mechanism or maker inside its £3,499 (US$5,699) Uniti Star. But in another part of ...