Paradigm Premieres a Trio of Premier Series Speakers at Audio Advice Live 2026

Bowers & Wilkins Stands Tall at Audio Advice Live 2026

Steinway Lyngdorf Mounts Up at Audio Advice Live 2026

Playback Distribution Presents a Grand North American Vienna Acoustics Loudspeaker Debut at Audio Advice Live 2026

Focal Attains Utopia at Audio Advice Live 2026

The Top Turntables, Tonearms, and Cartridges of SouthWest Audio Fest 2026

Rega's Royal Analog Experience at Audio Advice Live 2026

See How the Degritter Mark II Ultrasonic RCM Cleans an LP!

Cambridge Audio Rocks and Rules in a Fidelity Imports Room at Audio Advice Live 2026

Fyne Audio and Harmonia Distribution are in Fine Harmony at Audio Advice Live 2026

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EISA Awards

EISA Hi-Fi Awards 2026-2027

Stereophile Staff Aug 23, 2026

EISA, or the Expert Imaging and Sound Association, is an organization representing 53 of the most respected special interest publications and websites from 26 countries that cover Hi-Fi, Home Theater, Photography, Mobile Devices, and In-Car Electronics. Every year EISA's Expert Group members, including editors from this publication, test a very wide range of new products from their field of expertise before comparing results and voting to decide on the cream of every product category.

Stand Loudspeaker Reviews Subwoofer Reviews

SVS Ultra Evolution Bookshelf loudspeaker & SB-3000 R|Evolution subwoofer

Tom Fine Aug 21, 2026

Those of us who like to listen to music at room-filling scale may worry when we sit between a pair of standmount speakers. Sure, many of us have heard remarkably large and expansive sound from relatively smallish boxes . . . But it's always a crapshoot. Will that little two-way speaker excite my blood to musical ecstasy or boil it in frustration?

News Show Report

Paradigm Premieres a Trio of Premier Series Speakers at Audio Advice Live 2026

Ken Micallef Aug 20, 2026

At Audio Advice Live 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Blake Alty of Paradigm about the company's new Premier series of speakers in this room at the show, including the 820F v2 floorstanders and 220B v2 standmounts.

Media Server Reviews

Métronome DSAS streamer-server

Miguel Barrio Aug 20, 2026

Consider vinyl playback: Pick up a record, put it on the platter, start the platter spinning, position the stylus over the lead-in groove, lower the arm, and voilà, music is playing . . . Digital playback is simpler than vinyl if your goal is to play music from a single source, like a streaming service.

Brilliant Corners Show Report

Brilliant Corners #42: the First Viennese High End Show

Alex Halberstadt Aug 19, 2026

The Klipsch-OJAS storage container outside the High End Vienna venue.

Whenever I spend time in Vienna, I never think I'm going to eat schnitzel every day, but somehow it happens anyway. The truth is that when done right, schnitzel is a scientifically perfect dish: unexpectedly light, texturally complete, and oddly comforting.

News Show Report

Bowers & Wilkins Stands Tall at Audio Advice Live 2026

Ken Micallef Aug 18, 2026

At Audio Advice Live 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Kevin Zarow about the gear in this room at the show, including Bowers & Wilkins' 801 D5 floorstanding loudspeakers.

News Show Report

Steinway Lyngdorf Mounts Up at Audio Advice Live 2026

Ken Micallef Aug 18, 2026

At Audio Advice Live 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Lee Rambler of Steinway Lyngdorf about the company's new LCR-2 wall-mount loudspeaker.

Re-Tales

Re-Tales #69: High-End Audio Hotspots

Julie Mullins Aug 18, 2026

Audio Advice, the North Carolina–based hi-fi company, has been busy—and bullish. Recent acquisitions have brought its empire to seven stores. For years, Audio Advice has also hosted a hi-fi and home-theater show.

My Back Pages

Is This Year's "Gobsmacked" Next Year's "Ho-Hum"?

Jay Jay French Aug 17, 2026

Jay Jay French, still Twisted today.

I bought my first real stereo setup—a Sony STR-6050 receiver, an Audio Research XA turntable, and a pair of KLH 6 speakers—in 1968. After that, I routinely changed my equipment, but it wasn't until 1982, when I started reading Stereophile and The Absolute Sound, that my pursuit of great sound began in earnest.

News Show Report

Playback Distribution Presents a Grand North American Vienna Acoustics Loudspeaker Debut at Audio Advice Live 2026

Ken Micallef Aug 14, 2026

At Audio Advice Live 2026, Ken Micallef speaks with Rob Standley of Playback Distribution about the gear in this room at the show, including the North American debut of Vienna Acoustics' Schubert Grand Sonata loudspeakers.