U.K.’s Hi-Fi Show Live Opens Saturday
The Hi-Fi Show Live 2019, U.K’s largest specialty high-end audio event, will take place this Saturday and Sunday at the Ascot Racecourse Grandstand in Ascot, England.
UCSF Monkey Business Draws McCartney's Ire
The intentional deafening of monkeys by researchers at the University">http://www.ucsf.edu/">University of California, San Francisco has provoked a strongly worded protest by Paul McCartney. In a letter dated July 6, McCartney complained to UCSF Chancellor Michael Bishop that "there can be no excuse for inflicting such misery" on animals used in such experiments. The letter was the latest salvo fired in a controversy going back to early February.
UK Hi‑Fi Show Live Returns to Ascot This Weekend
The UK Hi‑Fi Show Live is back at Ascot Racecourse’s Grandstand on September 27–28, 2025. Doors open 9:30am–5:30pm Saturday and 9:30am–5:00pm Sunday. The show website bills it as the UK’s longest‑running high‑end audio event.
UK Music Sales Rise
Contrary to popular assumption, music downloads and CD sales may reinforce each other. That's one reasonable interpretation of mid-February music industry statistics from the United Kingdom.
UK's Mordaunt-Short Speaker Brand Acquired by Richer Sounds
The shock news on November 18, 1998---that the highly regarded British speaker brand Mordaunt-Short was to be closed down (see previous">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10316/">previous story)---seems to have achieved the desired result. On December 30, Audio Partnership plc announced it was acquiring the Mordaunt-Short brand from TGI plc (Tannoy Goodmans International).
Ultimate Dan D'Agostino & YG Event in San Diego Saturday
Saturday, November 17, all day, Alma Music and Audio (7847 Convoy Court, #101, San Diego, CA 92111) is holding an open house to introduce what they call Dan D'Agostino's masterpiece, the Relentless Monoblock, to the Southern California public. The Relentless power amplifiers will be used to power YG Acoustics' Sonja XV loudspeakers, which are also making their debut in Southern California. The Sonja XV is an extreme, four-tower version of the Sonja. It incorporates everything YG knows about speaker design and was created to celebrate YG's 15th anniversary.
Ultimate Ears "Everybody Wins" Contest
Ultimate Ears, the headphone company that specializes in in-ear monitors such as the UE-5chttp://stereophile.com/headphones/1204ultimate/">UE-5c;, is developing a new model slated to join the super.fihttp://www.ultimateears.com/superfi/superfi.htm">super.fi; family of products. During the prototyping period, the design crew referred to the new model as "XXX" (triple X).
Ultimate Electronics' Great Leap Forward
Growing pains aren't always unpleasant. In the case of Denver-based Ultimate">http://www.ultimateelectronics.com">Ultimate Electronics, they might be completely enjoyable.
Ultra-high Data Density
Pure technology developments don't often have an audiophile angle, but a February 9 announcement from InPhase">http://www.inphase-tech.com">InPhase Technologies caught our attention.
Ultralink's Don Bouchard Dead at 58
Don Bouchard, Ultralink/XLO Products' executive vice-president, succumbed February 7, 2008 from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident on December 15, 2007. Bouchard, riding with friends, had his front wheel drop into a hole in the pavement while traversing a railroad crossing and was thrown over his handlebars. The resulting injuries included a severe skull fracture, right-brain trauma, a broken clavicle, a broken rib, which punctured a lung, as well as internal trauma, multiple contusions, and bruising.