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Stereophile
ICONS AND INNOVATORS AT DEFINITIVE AUDIO
Definitive Audio in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle—one of the premier dealerships in the Pacific Northwest—continued its 50th anniversary celebration with an event it called “Icons and Innovators.” Highlighted by showings of the new JBL Everest series and Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus and 801 Abbey Road edition loudspeakers, the event drew a full house to the first of two sessions.
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February 2026
Stereophile
Touched-up Beatles and Ringo in color
Opinions vary, but like everything connected to The Beatles, charged arguments over Giles Martin's ongoing remastering of, and sonic tinkering with, the band’s hallowed recording catalog are unending.
3 min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Traveling through time and space
In the April 2024 issue of this magazine, a piece by Editor Jim Austin appeared in the “As We See It” space. It was titled “On assessing sonic illusions,” and it has haunted me for more than a year. Jim’s thesis was that a music recording is a “synthetic, whole-cloth creation ... a complete fabrication.” He writes: “Very few recordings correspond to an actual performance. Most are studio concoctions with pieced-together instrumental tracks and artificial ambience that document no sonic event that ever occurred.”
4 min |
February 2026
Stereophile
EgglestonWorks Andra 5
Big loudspeakers are where diligent hi-fi reviewers really earn their pay.
10+ min |
February 2026
Stereophile
RECORD REVIEWS
Why award Recording of the Month to a project whose vocal soloists, though thoroughly committed, are in some respects less than ideal?
3 min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Doshi Audio Evolution Stereo
Nick Doshi is cautiously reserved when he talks about his amplifiers, preferring to let the products speak for themselves.
10+ min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Sticking with it
David and Alma Wilson must be doing something right. They’ve been married for 50 years, and for 36 years, they’ve owned and operated Accent on Music on Main Street in Mount Kisco, New York, about an hour north of New York City. In a recent, lively Zoom conversation with the Wilsons, it became apparent that staying the course is a viable approach, for marriage and for business.
4 min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Period-style listening
Last night, I sat on a bright yellow velveteen sofa eating red beans and rice while listening for three hours to blues and jazz from rare 78rpm records. I walked out feeling gospel-level raised up, with a head full of dreams and cultural memories.
10+ min |
February 2026
Stereophile
CH Precision L10
TWO-CHASSIS LINE PREAMPLIFIER
10+ min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Rock don't give a shit, you know
Punk rock was never meant to grow old. For their first three studio efforts, The Replacements epitomized the punk ethos. Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (1981), the EP Stink (1982), and Hootenanny (1983) are loud, bashy fun.
3 min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Kii SEVEN
I reviewed the Kii THREE digital active loudspeaker in the September 2017 issue of Stereophile and was totally smitten.
10+ min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Hi-fi shows, Capital Audiofest, and the Doshi Evolution Phono
I was heading back home to New York in my old Mercedes diesel on a Sunday evening, having just attended the annual Capital Audiofest near Washington, DC. Riding shotgun was fellow Stereophile scribbler Ken Micallef, and as we puttered along the straight, featureless lower half of the New Jersey Turnpike, we started to reminisce about our audio show experiences.
10 min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Luxman E-07
My DACs are taking naps. I have not played music from a digital source in at least 12 weeks. My DACs are taking naps. I have not played music from a digital source in at least 12 weeks.
10+ min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Alex goes to CAF
You should come to CAF,” Ken Micallef said. He has been saying this for what seems like decades. “It's cool, smaller and more manageable than AXPONA. You'll like it.”
10+ min |
February 2026
Stereophile
Buzz Me In
If you like 1970s rock music, particularly hard rock music, something you love was recorded or mixed in a Record Plant studio.
3 min |
January 2026
Stereophile
NuPrime MCX-800AD
IMMERSIVE AUDIO PROCESSOR
10+ min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Shanachie Records
The term 'sales' is an anachronism. Today, it's about streaming and ancillary income.\"
3 min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Advance Paris X-CD9
CD PLAYER
10+ min |
January 2026
Stereophile
T+A Symphonia for phono; a new NAD M10
Out of the box, the T+A Symphonia streaming integrated amplifier Rogier van Bakel reviewed in the November 2025 issue¹ has two pairs of single-ended analog line inputs.
10+ min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Why the Music We Love Feels Different Now
There's a scene in the 2002 movie The Pianist in which Adrien Brody's character, the Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, is hiding in the ruins of a Warsaw villa.
3 min |
January 2026
Stereophile
A tale of two Walters
Acommon theme in this space in Stereophile is the need to reach new audiences and generate broader interest in the hi-fi hobby.
3 min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Eversolo Play CD Edition
ALL-IN-ONE STREAMING PLAYER
10+ min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Timeless flights
How many adventurous rock’n’roll bands forged in the late-’60s/early-’70s would have been left by the wayside—or relegated to languish in perpetual cutout-bin purgatory—had it not been for the wide-open programming M.O. of stereo-loving FM radio stations? The Moody Blues could very easily have been one of those sidelined, notched-cover footnotes, but they altered their gameplan when guitarist/vocalist Justin Hayward and bassist/vocalist John Lodge joined the fold a few years after the chart success of “Go Now” in 1964.¹
3 min |
January 2026
Stereophile
You still believe in me
One of my foundational memories of becoming an audiophile was waiting to listen to a pair of speakers at Sound by Singer in Manhattan.
10+ min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Rahsaan Roland Kirk live on two coasts
There's widespread consensus that Shohei Ohtani’s performance in Game 4 of the 2025 National League Championship Series was the greatest in baseball history: at the plate, 3 for 3 with three home runs; on the mound, six innings with 10 strikeouts and only 2 hits allowed.
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January 2026
Stereophile
MANUFACTURERS' COMMENTS
Rhythm Distribution, the North American distributor for Goldmund, is honored to acknowledge Jim Austin's thoughtful and comprehensive review of the Goldmund Telos 2800 Monoblock Power Amplifier in Stereophile.
3 min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Vintage systems, vintage cartridges, part 1
I do not believe in chance or coincidence. Instead, I put my faith in the divine nature of Luck.
10+ min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Good vibrations
Renowned British turntable manufacturer Rega once defined a turntable as a vibration-measuring machine; that definition became the title of a coffee table book tracing the company’s history and design philosophy.
10 min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Goldmund Telos 2800
MONOBLOCK POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
January 2026
Stereophile
Wilson Audio Specialties Sabrina V
Wilson Audio of Provo, Utah, is executing a multiyear revision of their product line, resulting mostly in a series of “remastered” redesigns that carry in their names the designation “V.
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