Sonos’ website had a heads-up: “Our most requested product is coming soon”…If you want a comfortable, great-sounding wireless streaming headphone, with best-in-class noise canceling and a cool design, under $500, meet the Sonos Ace, available now on SKY by Gramophone @ $449 ...
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When Bowers & Wilkins introduces a Signature Series speaker, the audio industry takes notice. Recording studios all over the world mix and monitor using Bowers & Wilkins including legendary Abbey Road Studios, which several Gramophone employees were lucky enough to visit in the summer of 202...
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If you want powerful bass in your home theater or two-channel listening room, but don’t have the space for a large subwoofer, there’s a new contender in the small, plays loud category. KEF has recently retired their very successful, compact KF92 and introduced the new KC92 subwoofer...
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A good loudspeaker can make or break an audio system, either two-channel or home theater. The quality of source components such as streamers, turntable/cartridge combination, and disc player matters a lot! So does the quality of your electronics - receiver, amp, preamp, etc. Any home theat...
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Wireless loudspeakers are a category that, not long ago, was scoffed at by most serious music listeners. Wireless signals themselves were limited in bandwidth and dynamic range. In plain words, the streaming signals did not sound very good. So not only on modestly priced stereo gear, but e...
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What happens when vintage, or retro-classic styling, meets modern loudspeaker development techniques and cutting-edge sound? McIntosh has resoundingly answered that question with a product that pays homage to their very first speaker, introduced back in 1970, the ML1 (as in McIntosh Loudsp...
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Hmmm… I’d like to put audiophile-quality sound into my home, but I don’t want to break the bank, either. What to do? Come to Gramophone to audition Totem Acoustic’s Bison Twin Tower, that’s what! One of the best things about Gramophone is that we have so many...
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Many areas of consumer electronics hardware, and music and video enjoyment, have leaped forward tremendously in the past few decades. The picture quality of a good TV in 2023 is stunningly better than it was just a few years ago. Wireless streaming used to be synonymous with poor sound quality....
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What a miracle it is that vinyl records and turntables have made a massive resurgence over the past two decades. How often in your lifetime have you seen an obsolete technology fade in popularity… and then rebound, becoming popular again? Vinyl album and turntable&nbs...
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What are the benefits of subwoofers? One of the characteristics of better loudspeakers, vs a modestly priced or entry-level speaker, is that better speakers usually offer much more heft on the bottom end. The rich low notes on a pipe organ, the solid slam of the drummer’s kick drum and floor t...
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