Estelon at Audio Video Show Warsaw 2026
Ola Björling speaks with Alfred Vassilkov, founder of and chief designer of Estelon, about the company's new Forza Ultra loudspeaker at Audio Video Show Warsaw 2026.
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Silent Pound at Audio Video Show Warsaw 2026
Ola Björling speaks with Audrius Balčiῡnas of Silent Pound about the company's Parallax loudspeaker at Audio Video Show Warsaw 2026.
Dutch Audio Event: The belles of the ball, the cream of the crop
If I'd brought five imaginary Stereophile Best of Show Awards to the 2026 Dutch Audio Event, they'd have gone to the companies below. No doubt this would have caused much revelry and rejoicing, and terrible wailing and gnashing of teeth among the uncrowned.
Dutch Treat: What brands from the Netherlands brought to their national audio show
Part 1 of Rogier van Bakel's firsthand reporting from the annual Dutch Audio Event in Veldhoven, Netherlands, that was held October 10–11.
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Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G loudspeaker
Recently I learned that a diner in Los Angeles had closed. I felt a pang of regret bordering on loss, even though I'd never set foot in the place. The Copper Penny was the La Brea Avenue greasy spoon Tom Waits mentions in the introduction to "Eggs and Sausage," on Nighthawks at the Diner.
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Welcome to Warsaw!
Three of our intrepid Stereophile contributing editors—Jason Victor Serinus, Ken Micallef, and Ola Björling—welcome one and all to the Audio Video Show 2026, the 28th edition of the hi-fi show in Warsaw, which is opening in just a few hours, on Friday, October 23, at noon local time. In this clip, our venerable power trio will give you a sneak peek at what they plan to cover at the show.
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Audio Video Show Warsaw 2026 Prepares to Open
Audio Video Show 2026, the 28th edition of the hi-fi show in Warsaw, will open in just a few hours, on Friday, October 23, at noon local time. Three intrepid Stereophile contributing editors—Jason Victor Serinus, Ken Micallef, and Ola Björling—are on hand to cover as much of it as (in)humanly possible. Serinus kicks off our Warsaw coverage here.
Soulnote P-3 preamplifier
My wife and I are both very specific about how we take our coffee, to the amusement of everyone around us. She likes her coffee so black and violently strong that it has its own event horizon, while I swoon over ultralight roasts with fermented, fruity, and flowery notes.
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Brilliant Corners #44: Tannoy, Townshend, and Dolly
I heard my first genuinely awesome hi-fi through a pair of Tannoy speakers. The 15" Monitor Blacks were installed in wardrobe-sized Siemens cabinets that the owner had wrangled from a decommissioned recording studio in Austria. They were hooked up to a pair of vintage McIntosh mono amps.
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Nagaoka MP-700 phono cartridge
A phono cartridge is a mechanical-electrical thing with a single job: tracking a squiggly spiral groove as accurately as possible and converting that mechanical tracking into an electrical signal. (Okay, maybe that's two jobs.) The process can seem miraculous.
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