What We Heard at CanJam NYC 2026 CanJam is the world’s premier headphone audio show, with annual events in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, London, Los Angeles, and Dallas. New York City CanJam is a three-hour train ride from Baltimore – so off we went, our third time ga...
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CDs Aren’t Dead: Inside Shanling’s ET3 Transport By Joe Finn It’s reasonable to ask, “Why should I purchase a CD transport, when so much music is readily available for streaming?” Literally billions of CD’s have been purchased, and CD’s still sell! An ...
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Great Sound, a Clean Look Do you like movies? From modern-day demo pieces like Dune, Ready Player One, and Blade Runner 2049, to classics like Casablanca and Gone With the Wind, to comedies like Young Frankenstein and The Big Lebowski, a good movie or two can be a great way to spend an evening.&n...
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WH-1000XM6 is the new, flagship wireless noise-canceling headphone from Sony. It has a new design; more comfortable, better noise cancellation, new features, and most importantly, Sony’s best sound yet in a noise-cancelling headphone. XM6 offers excellent value for $449 in silver, blue or blac...
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Bowers & Wilkins with Abbey Road: An Enduring Partnership “I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring this story to the market. We’re immensely proud of our partnership with our friends at Abbey Road and we think the 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition is the perfect way to celebrate t...
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A Flagship Duo Built for Audio & Cinematic Perfection Are you loving Marantz’ flagship AV 10 audio/video processor and AMP10 separates, built in their Shirakawa, Japan plant. . . but you haven’t pulled the trigger and purchased them, because they aren’t in your budget? ...
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If you love music, you probably enjoy taking it with you. JBL has introduced the latest in their amazing family of portables, the Flip 7, which is the 7th generation of their first Bluetooth speaker. It’s available in six colors: black, blue, red, purple, camo or white. Let’s see h...
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Sony’s Native 4K Bravia Projector 7 Flat panel TV’s keep getting bigger, while picture quality keeps getting better. Lots of folks are buying 65”, 75” and even bigger TV’s. But if you’re in a large great-room or basement, there’s no substitute for a quali...
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The awesome HiFi Rose RS 150B quickly became one of our best-selling reference-grade network streaming DAC preamps when it was introduced. HiFi Rose has now replaced it with the even-better RS 151, with lots of upgrades that Rose discovered when creating their flagship RD 160 Reference DAC and RS 13...
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Do you love music and movies? Sure - who doesn’t? If you are like so many of us, you’ve occasionally considered an upgrade to your system performance in order to improve your movie and music - maybe a new pair of speakers, or a better music streamer, adding a subwoofer or two, etc. ...
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