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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Hello friends, today we review some of the new and interesting products that are either recent offerings from our vendors, or products/brands that are new to us. First up is a new, high-fidelity music streamer, the Eversolo DMP A6 Master Edition. Starting at $1,199, it offers things t...
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Knowing Rotel’s reputation as a builder of audiophile sound quality products for reasonable money, we at Gramophone were happy to hear about Rotel’s latest product. It is the RAS-5000 Amplified Streamer, a powerful amplifier/preamplifier combo with a high-performance streaming engine and...
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What do we want from our music system? That question seems pretty fundamental, right? The answer is something like this: we seek to reproduce our favorite music as accurately as possible, within our budget. A music system that costs $999 retail won’t be able to reproduce the thundering drum so...
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Sonos since its inception has been an innovator in home audio. In fact, to innovate is precisely why they came to be. With famous products like the Sonos Play: One and Play: Five they became the household name for smart speakers that could be seamlessly controlled by a smartphone or tablet. To this ...
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The Bowers & Wilkins 700 S3 series is defined as “precision sound for sophisticated listening” and we couldn’t agree more! In the spirit of diving into each of the speakers from the series, we decided to create a blog post entirely dedicated to them, so you c...
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GoldenEar Technology NEW! BRX Bookshelf Speakers GoldenEar Technology's NEW ultra-high-performance compact bookshelf loudspeaker, the Bookshelf Reference X, is now ready for pre-order at Gramophone! This luxuriously finished, ultra-compact loudspeaker incorporates the latest techn...
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Sony is preparing to launch a new headphone model that was first showcased at CES 2018. The new MDR-1AM2 is an updated version of the successful, wired MDR-1A model and focuses on the basics; delivering high-resolution audio on the go without lavish extras. The headphone co...
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