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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Music streaming has become more popular over time, and why wouldn’t it? With streaming services, you have a world of songs and albums from your favorite musicians at your fingertips - or, with voice commands, at your beck and call! You can even stream in high resolution (high-res) - so yo...
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Sonus faber is an Italian manufacturer of some of the world’s best speakers. We have Aida on display in Gramophone’s Experience Center, which sounds incredible - but is a performance-oriented speaker more so than a value-oriented speaker. Sonus faber created the Lumina series for listene...
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Occasionally, a product comes along that makes you say “Wow”. Does a new compact streaming amplifier from Marantz fit the bill? Would you like a compact streaming amplifier, with excellent high-res digital decoding circuitry, lots of streaming options, and plenty of power to drive m...
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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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