This year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest had far less angst than last year's event. The show venue was no longer under renovation and exhibitors were better able to deal with the acoustic challenges presented by ...

I may lack the exceptional abilities of some heads of state when it comes to estimating crowd size, but the attendance at this year's Rocky Mountain Audio Fest looked pretty robust to me. With the ...

Fall in the Rocky Mountains. And what better place to view the changing colors than from the heights of the Marriott Tech Center tower, while listening to music, of course. This year’s show was in ...

The LA Audio Show was a good show, with a pleasant venue at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, easy parking, crowds large enough to make it worthwhile for exhibitors but not so large that listening was ...

The premier of the LA Audio Show was something of a mixed bag. With veteran show organizer Marine Presson at the helm and Bob Levi and the LA and Orange County Audio Society behind it, ...

Great audio shows are not born overnight­—they are works in progress. The inaugural LA Audio Show at the Sheraton-Gateway Hotel proved that despite some organizational hiccups there is much potential still to be mined. Indeed, ...

Some say the first L.A. audio show in recent times was a success. Crowds were more than respectable for a first outing, attendees had access to a bevy of gear and industry figures, and the ...

While the M.O.C. exhibition center housing the Munich High End Show generated a lot of heat, only some of it was produced by hot products making their debuts. A combination of record-setting crowds (up 10% ...

Five Most Significant Product Introductions McIntosh MP1100 Phonostage and D1100 Digital Linestage McIntosh launched the highly capable new MP1100 all-tube phonostage. The MP1100 is packed with features including three inputs along with nine profiles (five ...

This year’s Munich High End show was a hot one in every sense of the word (more so than ever given the unseasonably warm temps in Bavaria and the heat generated in demo rooms full ...

The big story at this year’s Munich show was the rapidly increasing number of manufacturers incorporating MQA decoding in their products. Perhaps even more significant for the format, however, was Sony Music’s statement that it ...

Imagine a collision between CES and CEDIA when both were at their peak, and you’ll have an idea of how enormous and jam-packed with goodies Munich High End is. There’s simply nothing else like it ...

This was the fourth (and final) year for AXPONA being held at The Westin Hotel in Rosemont, IL, right next to O’Hare airport. While this is the last exhibit at this location, it’s not the ...

Five Most Significant Debuts Aavik Acoustics M-300 Monoblock Amplifiers, C-300 Preamplifier The Aavik M-300 monoblocks ($48k) and C-300 made their active-demo debuts in a sweet-sounding setup (alas, all digitally sourced, a Naim CD player used ...

The 2017 event, which was clearly the best attended and most vibrant of the current four-year Chicago run of AXPONAs, will be last in this highly successful series to be held at the Westin O’Hare. ...