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The music management and listening service of choice in serious hi-fi circles, but what is Roon and how does it work?

This streaming speaker gets top marks for style, but scores only a B-minus for audio performance.

A long-standing debate about whether the inner core of the Moon is a solid ball or molten may finally be solved with newly published research.

VANA CEO Roy Feldstein worked a room at AXPONA, no bells and whistles, no crazy demos or static displays. Roy simply plays the kind of solid gear that he excels in distributing, including European Audio Team (EAT), Kyomi Audio, Grimm Audio, Atlas Cables, Ferrum, Jorma and Marten loudspeakers, and Rekkord turntables.

Michal Jurewicz, Mytek CEO and designer, of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, brought new and not-so-new equipment to AXPONA. The "Tall Wizard" had two rooms, one including the Mytek Empire Streamer (currently with Editor Jim Austin, for review, $25,000), new GaNFET-powered Empire monoblocks (400Wpc/800Wpc into 4 ohms; $20,000/pair), and his very own pair of 1990s-era JM Labs Point Source 5.1s standmount monitors with JM Labs PS 10 dual subwoofers. ArgentPur cabling was used throughout.

Talk about a dream triad of fabulous gear from Switzerland: darTZeel, Stenheim, Merging Technologies. The first thing I said to myself when I saw this simple, sharp-looking spread in Toronto-based retailer Sonic Artistry's room was, "Damn, this is an attractive group!".

Audio and home automation products distributor BusiSoft AV has been appointed as the official distributor of Roon Labs Hardware for Australia and New...

The McIntosh RS150 is a winsome wireless home speaker featuring support for Tidal HiFi Lossless playback (up to 1411 Kbps) and file streaming of up to 24-bit/192kHz music files. Oh, and that dial is j

A slenderly proportioned, beautifully built digital unit with full network capability that can play high-resolution audio in an entirely compelling fashion

Researchers now have to think about the moon differently after a new study proves an old theory about it completely wrong.