It has certainly been a year of extraordinary rave reviews from around the world for all of GoldenEar Technology products, especially the iconic Triton Two. Now a new saga begins as the little brother to the Triton Two, the Triton Three, takes to the field with the first of what certainly will be an equally fantastic string of rave reviews. The rev ... Read More

As we all know, Stereophile is one of the most critical of all the magazines in terms of their reviews.  Last year, when Robert Deutsch approached Sandy Gross for a review after auditioning the Tritons at the CES Show, he nervously agreed.  Well, he loved them at the show and he loved them when he listened to them at his home. His rave re ... Read More

You know they say, "When it rains it pours", and the honors are certainly pouring down on the Triton Two superspeaker. HomeTheaterReview.com Best of 2011This latest honor is from HomeTheaterReview.com and it is their coveted:Best Affordable Floorstanding Loudspeaker of 2011! They raved, "With a track record unlike anybody (even Dr. Bose) with com ... Read More

When a speaker has a pompous-sounding name like GoldenEar Triton Two, you either get sound that is equally epic or you start thinking of funny comments. These tall three-way floor standers, packed with enough hi-end technology to make NASA jealous , had our expectations at an all time high. When Sandy Gross and Don Givogue,the duo behind Polk ... Read More

It seems like it would be difficult for a company specializing in über-high-end stereo speakers and professional studio monitors to enter the realm of mainstream consumer products. Somehow, though, from the Zeppelin line of iPod docks to the excellent P5 headphones, and now the superb Bowers & Wilkins C5 In-Ear Headphones, B&W always m ... Read More

What’s that? Another new speaker brand in the market you say? More than any other audio category, it ’s the loudspeaker segment that sees the most churn and new entrants, of ten received with scepticism by critics and hard-nosed audiophiles alike. Nothing short of a miracle, GoldenEar burst on to the scene just about a year ago and is a ... Read More

Having owned a pair of B&W 805 Diamond loudspeakers for the past year, I’m tuned into B&W’s current sound: Powerful, detailed, and accurate. The latest diamond tweeter and crossover design combine to produce a very musical speaker that handles nuance with aplomb, yet also rocks at realistic levels when the demand arises. And ye ... Read More

There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald gloomily mused. Don’t tell that to Sandy Gross. Having cofounded Polk Audio and Definitive Technology, he has recently formed a third Baltimore-based loudspeaker company called GoldenEar Technology. I’ve asked Gross more than once why he’s launched a third spea ... Read More

 For  :  Outstanding scale; excellent integration; brilliant detail retrieval and refinement; looks, build and finishAgainst : Some slight bloom in the mid-bass area; every speaker needs plenty of room to function bestSometimes, there’s no substitute for sheer size, and B&W’s CM9 Theatre system certainly has that goin ... Read More

The Bowers & Wilkins 803 Diamond loudspeaker is the middle model in the company’s current flagship line. Below it are the 805 Diamond bookshelf and the smaller floorstander, the 804 Diamond . Above it are the 802 Diamond  and the 800 Diamond , both distinguished by the spherical midrange-driver enclosures of Marlan that sit atop the ... Read More

The 800 diamond series was launched last year to replace the 800D models but save for a silver ring around the drivers you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart. This is the third incarnation of a range that was initiated by the Nautilius back in the nineties, a speaker that was worth its weight in marketing potential if not actual sales. Still, it ... Read More

Description and Principal Function Zeppelin Air is the ultimate AirPlay wireless speaker system; the best sounding Zeppelin® yet. It is the first premium iPod speaker to feature the new Apple AirPlay wireless streaming technology, which allows music to be streamed wirelessly from your Mac or PC to Zeppelin Air. You can even stream high-qua ... Read More

The first time I remember being floored by the sound coming from a set of headphones, I was twelve. Maybe thirteen. My dad, being an audiophile and radio man, had just given me a pair of Sony MDR-V600 Monitor Series phones. Those things blew me away. At that age, I had never really experienced that kind of personal audio fidelity. Now, fifteen yea ... Read More

A beautiful home cinema amp is a rare thing. Quite why that should be so is hard to define: possibly it's because, as home cinema kit is intended for use in a darkened room, looks matter less than flexibility and power. Whatever, it means that most modern AV amps exude a stark, slab-fronted brutalism, with all traces of a curve ruthlessly expunged. ... Read More

Now this was a surprise. Not that the Audio Research VSi60 integrated amplifier doesn't belongat the top of this list-it certainly does, and it got my vote-but you've got to admit that there are some other heavyweights in this category. We've got the jewel-like The Tube from Einstein Audio, the bespoke Fi 2b, and the extremely pleasurable darTZeel ... Read More

We can talk about specifics all day, but the fact is it plays music better than anything   IN Hi-Fi, COMPOSURE isn't a particularly glamorous-sounding talent. We're sure most people would put speed and dynamics well ahead in a list of desirable traits. That is until they hear composure, REF 210 style. Throw the most complex and demanding mus ... Read More

The world of modern-day A/V recievers sometimes seems to be driven by the headlong pursuit of elaborate technical gongs and whistles, plus the burning desire to quote impressive though sometimes implausble-power specifications. Deliberately bucking these trends, however, Rotel has always chosen to march to the beat of a different drummer. While com ... Read More

When you think about home-theater gear, what usually comes to mind are things like displays, source devices, processors, amplifiers, and speakers. But these are nothing more than very expensive boat anchors without AC power—and that power had better be clean if they are going to perform at their best. This is where PS Audio comes in with ... Read More

The CDP-8 is a world class CD player with touch sensitive control panel. NuForce’s CDP-08 employs a state-of-the-art optical drive system and powerful DSP-based decoder that allows for full implementation of all available Red Book error-correction capabilities -- a clear advantage over earlier decoding strategies. ... Read More

Extracting high-quality audio from Blu-ray players can be problematic in that the HDMI signal format interleaves video and audio data into a single transmission medium. While a convenient means of transferring A/V data between components, the process of combining these signals invariably imparts a level of digital jitter to the audio data some ... Read More

The MG12 is the choice of audiophiles getting started in "high end" audio, with good clean bass and a top end that has the resolving power to show off the differences between different grades of electronics.The MG12 is a perfect example of how yesterday's high-end concepts have evolved to benefit mid-priced products. Ribbon tweeters from the p ... Read More

The Magnepan 1.7 is one of the smoothest and most consistent sounding loudspeakers I've encountered for a long time. Push almost any music through it, and it's bound to sound from good to very good. There won't be those interruptive moments - or there are only very few of them - when the listener must conclude that Fine, this was it, here's th ... Read More

There are good speakers. There are great speakers. However, few speakers are able to surpass mere greatness and cement themselves as the stuff of legend. Unless you're talking about the Magnepan MG 3.6 of course, which I am, and yes, they're every bit as good the legend would have you believe.From a sound perspective the MG 3.6s are phenomenal ... Read More

Heard in light of the succeeding models of Magnepans (or Maggies), the 3.7 is a hybrid fertilization of Winey’s true-ribbon design and the company’s more recent ventures into quasi-ribbon technology (as in the Model 1.7s), and it sounds unlike any of its ancestors. It is the culmination of Winey’s art. The technological ins a ... Read More

Jeff Rowland has now launched into the digital realm with the introduction of the Aeris DAC at CES. Jeff has long been known for producing exceptional amps and preamps. I had the opportunity to audition one of the two existing prototypes of this DAC last Saturday with a group of dedicated audiophiles- some of whom are into computer audio. Stun ... Read More

I just got home from three days at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. I had my first epiphany in five years of attending and spending serious time listening to lots of equipment. Rowland's new stereo Model 625 class AB amplifier with zero overall feedback and Power Factor Correction was the class of the show, in my experience. You can see the sp ... Read More

Flagship preamplifiers with separate power supplies are becoming relatively common at the ultra high-end level, and Jeff Rowland's new Criterion is the latest two-box model to join this elite group. The Criterion's power supply features an internal self charging Ni-MH battery pack, replacing the lead-zinc batteries used in Rowland's previous f ... Read More

Now the Jeff Rowland Design Group have released their most affordable pre/power combination yet, the new Capri preamplifier and Model 102 stereo power amplifier. For potential buyers lower pricing does not mean a lower quality product. Both units are constructed in the time proven Rowland manner with the main casework carved from solid alumin ... Read More

In the early 1970s Sandy Gross helped co-found Polk Audio and then teamed with Don Givogue in 1990 to found Deinitive Technology. Now, Gross and Givogue have joined forces again to create a third loudspeaker company: GoldenEar Technology. At each step along the way, Gross and team have consistently pursue, an idea that I, for one, hold dear — ... Read More

In the early 1970’s Sandy Gross helped co-found Polk Audio and then teamed with Don Givogue in 1990 to found Deifinitive Technology. Now, Sandy Gross and Don Givogue have joined forces once again to create a third loudspeaker company: GoldenEar Technology. To say that these guys have speaker manufacturing in their blood would be, if you&rsquo ... Read More

GoldenEar Technology - Triton Two Tower Speakers Speakers -- they sure do make a lot of them. Some of them sound pretty good, too. I've listened to a bunch of new speakers over the past few years, but none has really struck me as representing any sort of breakthrough. Then I heard the Triton Two towers from newcomer GoldenEar Technology. The mind ... Read More

B&W 803D/HTM20/DS8S/ASW855 - What Hi-Fi ? November 2009This Big B&W 800-series system is a marvellous set-up, whether you're sitting in rapt attention and air-conducting to the masters, or just kicking back and enjoying some movies.Thanks to the diamond-dome tweeters fitted to the front three speakers, the astonishing transparency and detai ... Read More