The next entry in our series of huge horn speakers that are so big they’re impossible to photograph is, quite surprisingly, the most successful horn system I heard at Munich 2024 and perhaps anywhere. Maybe […]
Those unique loudspeakers from Bayz Audio, the ones that look like a cross between a contrabassoon and something you might find in a mad scientist’s lab, can finally be stricken off my bucket list. For […]
In the summer of 2022 I visited the DALI factory in Denmark to report on the development of the flagship Kore loudspeaker ($120K/pr). After the visit, I could sum up the excellence of the DALI […]
Last year it was easy to keep up with new product introductions from Audio Group Denmark, parent company of Børresen speakers, Aavik electronics, Ansuz cables and accessories, and Axxess entry level gear. First AGD went […]
First room visited at Munich 2024? Innuos and Kroma Atelier, along with Nagra and Stromtank. The first song heard? “Chocolate Chip Trip.” It’s becoming a tradition for some reason–for the last few high-end audio shows […]
This is the system that has haunted me for the last year, ever since I had a listen at High End 2023 in Munich. We’re talking, of course, of that enchanted room that featured a […]
When I visited this big YG Acoustics room last year, it occurred to me that was a lot of gear in one room–maybe a record for most things in one room at a high-end audio […]
The lovely retro-looking wedge-shaped speaker in the photos is indeed named the Trapeze Reimagined, and it comes from Danish speaker manufacturer Audiovector. The Trapeze Reimagined is a reboot of Audiovector’s very first speaker way back […]
If High End 2024 in Munich had a theme, it would be horn speakers. I’m not just talking about your usual horns, but massive multi-piece structures that seem to require dedicated listening rooms that are […]
Over the last few years at the Munich show, I’ve been keeping track of the progress of speaker designer Benno Meldgaard and his new company Baun Audio. Benno has designed a new type of speaker […]
On Sunday, the last day for High End 2024, I spent my time doing business–arranging for reviews, mostly, and connecting with prospective industry partners. One particularly gratifying moment involved introducing Doug White of The Voice […]
After the heady excesses from Friday at the 2024 Munich Show, the Saturday highlights focus less on the incredible and more on simply incredible sound. There was a point, after lunch on Saturday, where I […]
Friday at High End 2024 in Munich was a day spent listening to big, big systems that take up a lot of real estate–not to mention a lot of money. While the ESD Acoustic room […]
This is my first Press Day in my four years of attending the High End show in Munich. I always miscalculate my itinerary and wind up needing to sleep through the first day of the […]
This is my fourth trip to High End in Munich, but I know better than to act like I’m an old hand at this. I learned last fall when I traipsed all over Europe that […]
Compared with last year’s High End in Munich, where I was in a perpetual state of solving huge problems in order to continue with my coverage and ultimately get back home in one piece, this […]
With the exception of the Best Sound of Show awards, I’m done with my Munich 2023 coverage. I did notice, however, that I had more photos to share from the show, and more things to […]
You might think I’m saving the best for last when I talk about the TIDAL Audio Contriva G3 and Piano G3 loudspeakers. Or maybe second best, since nothing could possibly be better than listening to […]
When I walked into the YG Acoustics and Bel Canto Design room at Munich 2023, I looked around and noticed something was missing. There were many, many pairs of YG Acoustics speakers in the room, […]
How good was Nordost in Munich? While I was in the middle of a listening session in the Nordost room, with Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino and dCS (which sounds like Mohammed Samji‘s system at home), […]
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