Mac Life
Brain-computer interfaces from Apple and beyond
Want to control an iPhone? Apple is hoping to tap into your mind
3 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Parallels Desktop 26
Run Windows and more on your Mad
3 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Time Flies
Feeling the buzz of trying to live life to the max
2 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Apple TV developments
Streaming service looks to be expanding
1 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
MacBook Pro 14in (2025)
Now equipped with an Apple silicon M5 chip, but little else has changed
3 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Apple M5 powered devices arrive
A quiet rollout – so is it a next-generation processor or just a speed bump?
2 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
iPadOS 26 Tips, tricks, & secrets
The best iPadOS yet is a massive upgrade for any iPad
3 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Track your book collection
Use Book Tracker to keep tabs on your books and reading habits
2 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Master Magnetic Masks
Use artificial intelligence (AI) to create cartoon effects in Final Cut Pro
2 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
GAME ON FOR APPLE?
Apple is making more of an effort to court gamers, but will it prove to be successful?
7 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
iPhone 17 Pro
It may not be as flashy as the Air, but this is the iPhone to own
2 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Raycast
Access any AI service from your phone
2 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
The Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide
Spoil yourself and your loved ones this Christmas with these must-have tech treats and gadget gifts
2 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Apple and the Right to Repair
Apple has made huge efforts to make its devices more repairable. Has it fixed the situation?
5 min |
December 2025
Mac Life
Create a modern-day mixtape
Share perfectly curated collections the easy way in the Music app
3 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
MANUFACTURERS' COMMENTS
MoFi Distribution would like to thank both Ken Micallef and John Atkinson for their time and effort reviewing the HiFi Rose RA280 integrated amplifier (November 2025, p.93).
2 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
DeVore Gibbon Super Nine
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Audio Research Reference 330M
MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Arendal Sound 1528 Tower 8
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 600.2
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Excel Sound/LP Gear The Vessel
MOVING MAGNET CARTRIDGE SYSTEM
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
36 sides of late Bowie
I Can't Give Everything Away is the sixth and last of the Bowie box sets that survey specific periods in the artist's career. The first was Five Years 1969–1973, released in September 2015. That was followed by Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976), A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982), Loving the Alien (1983–1988), Brilliant Adventure (1992–2001), and finally the new set. Together, the six sets are an impressive testament to a musical giant—a heavyweight tribute figuratively and literally. You could use this last installment to pump up your biceps.
3 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Full circle in Colorado
A hi-fi dealer's son, Matt Alterman has been in or near the business almost all his life. His dealership, Crescendo Audio, is coming full circle as he opens a new location in Boulder, Colorado, the town where he launched his first store 13 years ago.
3 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Baby you can drive my car(tridge)
While I was coming to grips with this month's review subject, the idler drive Garrard 301 Advanced, I began to think about the various methods that have been used to spin turntable platters over the years. Since the transition a century ago from windup clockwork to electric motors, there have basically been three ways to spin a turntable platter: idler drive, belt drive, and direct drive. True, there have also been a few designs that go their own unique ways, such as the rare, water-driven Oasis made by David Gillespie of Saturn Audio in the late 1970s and the gear-driven H.H. Scott 710 I once owned and foolishly sold. But almost everything made since the 1950s uses one of the three main drive systems. Even the Omega Drive system, which was used by Wilson Benesch on their extraordinary GMT One turntable, is at its core a direct drive design.
10 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Life in the emerald beyond
If you find yourself in Monaco on a Sunday night, make your way to La Note Bleue, a cozy restaurant and music bar on the beach by the Avenue Princesse Grace. There, you're likely to find a legendary world/fusion guitarist sitting in with a group of young jazz musicians eager to cut heads with the acknowledged maestro of inner awareness and otherworldly spirits. Forever known to some as “Mahavishnu,” you can call him by his birth name, John McLaughlin.
3 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Lotti Golden
Her life became a whirlwind. Taking the train in from Brooklyn to Manhattan to pitch songs and experience the East Village scene, she landed a song-publishing deal at age 14. In 1968, at 18, after a chance meeting in an elevator, a legendary songwriter/record producer was interested in assisting her in making her debut album. Released on Atlantic Records in 1969, Lotti Golden's Motor-Cycle was wildly experimental and ahead of its time. Seemingly poised for success, the album and her career suddenly vanished.
4 min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Some marketing claims are true
None of the amps I build are better than the others,” Justin Weber of Ampsandsound told me not long after we met. “They are just different.” I may have smirked inwardly. According to his company’s website, Weber makes no fewer than 23 amplifier models, many capable of driving both headphones and speakers, ranging from the $2700 Kenzie OG to the $38,000 Arch Monos. Are they really all equally good?, I wondered. Surely this was just a clever Buddhist ploy to distract us from some of his amps’ high prices. Doesn't the extra $35k spent on the Arch Monos buy you something more desirable than the performance offered by the little Kenzie? Writing for an audio magazine means I hear a lot of marketing claims, some more risible than others, and I have learned to take them with an entire seabed worth of salt.
10+ min |
December 2025
Stereophile
Midpriced phonography
My mother Lily Mae was a Lutheran from Norway. She sent me to Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran School so that I'd become a well-mannered, tea-with-her-friends choirboy, with starched white shirts and a secret penchant for wildness that was nurtured by those freethinking Catholic girls at the elementary school next to ours.
10+ min |
December 2025
Techlife News
GOOGLE UNVEILS PROJECT SUNCATCHER TO POWER ORBITAL AI COMPUTE WITH CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY
Google has revealed Project Suncatcher, an experimental initiative that reimagines how large-scale computing could evolve beyond Earth's surface.
3 min |
November 08, 2025
Techlife News
APPLE CAPTURES 28% VALUE SHARE IN INDIA, BECOMES THIRD-LARGEST IPHONE MARKET BY VOLUME 7
Apple has captured a 28 percent value share in India's smartphone market, marking its highest level in the country to date.
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