Future Audiophile

Reading Time: 11 minutes Even the audiophile elders admit that streaming provides the best performance and most cost-effective way to get CD- to HD-quality audio into your audiophile system. In 2022, only a tiny fraction of the record high sales for recorded music was from physical media and, much like a computer, there is little chance that you are Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutes JBL is a name that resonates with anyone who’s had even a fleeting interest in high-quality audio. From their humble beginnings in the 1940s, JBL has been synonymous with pushing the boundaries of high-quality sound reproduction. Enter the JBL L52 Classic speakers – a modern nod to the legendary JBL L100 series that rocked the Read More »

Reading Time: 10 minutes Do you wanna know when an AV company is the real deal? Some might say that it is when they are sold in Best Buy or Magnolia stores, and that’s a good standard. Before Sonos made that distribution leap, they did something else wild, which is to advertise on the Super Bowl. While the ad Read More »

Reading Time: 7 minutes Conventional wisdom and, frankly, common sense tells us the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. If you wanted to travel from one city to another several hundred miles away, you’d simply look at the map and pick out the most direct route. Really good audiophile systems also tend to ascribe to the Read More »

Reading Time: 7 minutes By Jerry Del Colliano You’ve seen the film This Is Spinal Tap!, right? Even if you haven’t, the chances that you don’t know the joke that goes “but this one goes to 11” are pretty slim, unless you’ve been living under a rock since the mid-1980s. In America, we love things that are bigger. Bigger Read More »

Reading Time: 9 minutes You know when Wall Street is buying up all of the music catalogs that there is something good going on in the music industry. What’s good is that, according to the RIAA in 2022, gross combined revenue (including all sources) is at an all-time high. The audiophile print magazines would tell their audiences that it is Read More »