The Products of 2016 - Stereophile’s reviewers vote for the best audio components of the past year.

Shut Up And Kiss Me - With the release of My Woman, Angel Olsen, one of the finest young singer/songwriters working today, has made her best record so far

THE dCS ROSSINI - PLAYS EVERYTHING & SOUNDS GREAT.

SPECIAL FEATURE: WE CHOOSE THE 60 BEST PRODUCTS OF 2016.

Straits Shooter
For a guy born in Glasgow, Mark Knopfler has a knack for writing songs based in an American ethos.
By Mike Mettler.

Octave Audio MRE 220 SE mono power amplifier 
by Jason Victor Serinus

Jazz Without the Poverty
Thomas Conrad goes cruising with jazz greats.

Parasound JCA100 Tribute mono power amplifier
by John Atkinson

Gramophone Dreams
Herb Reichert encourages more right-brain thinking in hi-fi— then auditions a very inexpensive current-mode phono “head amp”: the Hagerman Audio Labs Piccolo Zero..

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Tom Waits’s Island Records Reissues: An all-star team of engineers remasters, recuts,
and reissues the wizard-poet’s Island Records discography. By Robert Baird.

Quad Lives!: The short-lived 1970s fad that won’t go away — and that’s a good thing. By Tom Fine.

Linn Klimax Solo 800 mono power amplifier by Jason Victor Serinus and more...

Recommended Components
More than 450 hi-fi products ranked and rated.

Technics SL-1200GR2 record player
by Ken Micallef

Steven Wilson
A master of immersive music talks about his music and the craft. 
By Mike Mettler

Bowers & Wilkins 801 Signature D4 loudspeaker.
By Tom Fine

Records to Live For!
Our writers each choose two recordings that help make it all worthwhile.

Luxman L-509Z integrated amplifier
by Ken Micallef

Klipsch The Nines integrated loudspeaker system
by Tom Fine

Working the Room
Stereophile reviewer Rogier van Bakel converted an old garage into a luxurious listening room.

Naim NSC 222 & NPX 300 streaming preamplifier and power supply
by Martin Colloms

Stereophile’s 32nd Annual Product of the Year Awards
The very best in hi-fi for 2023.

DeVore Fidelity Orangutan O/baby loudspeaker
by Ken Micallef

On the Road Again, a Year Later
A year after his first post-pandemic jaunt, Tom Conrad returns to Europe for more—what else?—jazz.

The EISA Awards
An international panel of hi-fi experts chooses this year’s most deserving products.

Recommended Components
Our most popular feature: more than 42 pages of recommended gear in every hi-fi category.

Electrocompaniet AW 800 M power amplifier
by Jason Victor Serinus

Brilliant Corners
Alex Halberstadt considers what makes a system special, then listens to the Manley Laboratories Mahi amplifier times two (hence, Mahi Mahi).

Astrud Gilberto, RIP
Rogier van Bakel remembers the exquisite, unplanned vocalist on the classic jazz album Getz/Gilberto.

MoFi Electronics SourcePoint 8 loudspeaker
by Kalman Rubinson

Samara Joy
The young, Grammy-winning jazz vocalist talks about her second album, Linger Awhile.

Raidho TD3.8 loudspeaker
by Rogier van Bakel

Jazz at a Dark Moment
This year’s San Jose Jazz Fest blended great American musicians with counterparts from Ukraine.

Bowers & Wilkins 705 S3 loudspeaker
by Kal Rubinson

Bringing it all back home
After a long career of ironic takes, Robbie Fulks returns to his bluegrass roots.

PS Audio PerfectWave DirectStream MK2 D/A processor 
by John Atkinson

Dan D’Agostino Momentum M400 MxV monoblock power amplifier
by Jason Victor Serinus

Fables of the Post-Reconstruction
Mike Mettler chats with John Doe about seminal punk band X and his solo career.

Karan Acoustics POWERa Mono monoblock power amplifier
by Jason Victor Serinus

Arvus H2-4D 16-channel digital audio renderer
by Kalman Rubinson

Recommended Components
Our most popular feature: 42+ pages of recommended audio gear in every category.

The Beatles, Reanimated
Giles Martin talks with Ken Micallef about the remixed, reinvented Revolver.

KEF LS60 Wireless loudspeaker
by Kalman Rubinson

Luxman PD-151 MARK II record player
by Michael Trei

Apple AirPod Pro 2 in-ear headphones
by Rogier van Bakel

Records to Live For!
Our writers each choose two recordings that make their lives worth living.

Dave Alvin
Judging by the experiences of the Blasters’ guitar man, sometimes blood is thicker than a vintage 78.

Wilson Alexia V loudspeaker
by Jason Victor Serinus

Pathos InPoL Remix MkII integrated amplifier
by Ken Micallef

SVS Prime Wireless Pro loudspeaker
by Rogier van Bakel

Industry Update
Sound United purchase leads to a shareholder uprising at Masimo, Sound United’s parent company; an online-only dealer opens a brick’n’mortar store; the latest on Spotify’s promised hi-rez tier; distribution changes—plus, industry events and new product announcements.

The 2022 Stereophile Product of the Year Awards
The best-sounding gear of the year as judged by Stereophile’s reviewers.

Jeff Tweedy
Mike Mettler talks with the longtime Wilco front man about the band’s new record, sequencing albums, the Beatles, and risks and benefits of audiophilia..

The 2022–2023 EISA Awards
Top products as judged by an international panel of experts.

On the Road Again
A European jazz-festival journal from a summer of plague and war.

ESTELON XB DIAMOND MK II
CLASSICAL ELEGANCE PREMIUM SOUND

Triangle Antal 40th Anniversary Edition loudspeaker
by Robert Schryer

Tannoy Stirling Prestige Gold Reference loudspeaker
by Ken Micallef

Nordost QNet and QSource network switch & power supply
by Jason Victor Serinus

Steve Earle’s Jerry Jeff Walker album
A hardcore troubadour pays tribute to an early inspiration.
By Mike Mettler

Octave Audio Jubilee Mono SE amplifier
by Jason Victor Serinus

Genelec G Three loudspeaker.
by Herb Reichert

Ideon Audio Ayazi mk2 D/A converter and 3R Master Time Black Star clock.
by Alex Halberstadt

Gryphon Commander line preamplifier
by Michael Fremer

Lejonklou Entity phono preamplifier
by Alex Halberstadt

Rotel Michi S5 power amplifier
by Jason Victor Serinus

Meitner MA3 integrated D/A processor
by Jason Victor Serinus

PrimaLuna EVO 400 integrated amplifier
by Rogier van Bakel

Chario Aviator Amelia loudspeaker
by Julie Mullins

Fleetwood Sound Company DeVille SQ loudspeaker
by Ken Micallef

Burmester Musiccenter 151 MK2 streaming D/A preamplifier
by Jason Victor Serinus

AudioPraise VanityPRO HDMI audio extractor
by Kalman Rubinson

Recommended Components
The best hi-fi components, ranked and rated.

From Congo Square to Times Square
A short history of drummers in jazz, by Ken Micallef.

CH Precision D1.5 CD/SACD/MQA-CD player/transport
by Jim Austin

Gold Note PH-1000 phono preamplifier
by Michael Fremer

iFi Audio ZEN DAC Signature V2 and ZEN CAN
by Jim Austin

Death-Defying Discs
In Records to Die For 2022, writers recommend some records that might just keep you alive a little bit longer. Maybe.

Keb’ Mo’: “Music Was Mine to Experience”
With a new record, the bluesman continues to follow the path beneath his feet. By Rogier van Bakel.

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