This Brutalist Vinyl Turntable Hides the Tonearm So Well It Feels Like a Massive CD Deck
For something built to play vinyl, the PP-1 barely behaves like a turntable at all. There’s no tonearm visually staking its claim across the platter,…
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After 6 Years, Google Finally Remembered To Launch A New Smart Speaker, This Time with Gemini Built-in
The Nest Audio came out in September 2020. If you bought one that fall, you were probably still navigating pandemic grocery runs and wondering when…
WiiM’s First Soundbar Has a Round Touch Display Built Into the Front
The soundbar has become the default home theater upgrade for anyone who doesn’t want to fill a room with floor-standing speakers and receiver cabinets. It’s…
KLH’s $1,000 Floorstanding Speaker Actually Fits in Your Apartment
Serious hi-fi speakers have long demanded a certain kind of listener, one with a dedicated room, a generously sized space, and the freedom to place…
This B&O Headphone Concept Fits Only You, Literally, and It’s the Best Idea Audio Has Had in Years
Bang & Olufsen built its reputation on the idea that audio equipment should be worthy of the spaces it inhabits. Bas Kamp’s ONCE concept takes…
The Sound Blaster AE-X gives your PC a dedicated audio upgrade that onboard sound can’t match
Onboard motherboard audio has improved considerably over the past decade, to the point where most users don’t notice a gap. That’s true enough for casual…
Love Hultén Built a Pink Floyd Prism Guitar You Can Actually Play
The equilateral triangle is one of the most psychologically loaded forms in Western visual culture. It appears on currency, on occult diagrams, on the cover…
Yamaha Just Bought a Fish and Made It Into an Amplifier
Somewhere between a fish market and Milan Design Week, a guitar amplifier became an animal. Yamaha’s HERRING, a concept piece by designer Koji Notomi, is…
One Speaker, 10 Drivers, 400 Watts: DALI’s Vega Changes the Game
The audio world has always had a bit of a hoarding problem. Amplifiers, preamps, turntables, towers, subwoofers, cables that cost more than a weekend trip….
Hiroshi Fujiwara reinterprets Bang & Olufsen’s iconic designs to redefine living room luxury in liquid black
Hiroshi Fujiwara has had his influence stamped in multifaceted spheres – Carrera Chronograph x Fragment Limited Edition and the MC20 Cielo Fuoriserie are some impressive…
Jae Tips x Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2 headphones relieve classic gel and acrylic Nintendo aesthetics
Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2 headphones are the brand’s flagship pair of cans that have good sound quality and some scope for improvement in the ANC….
Vollebak’s New Sonic Jacket Fires 180 Speakers Into Your Body
If you’ve ever stood too close to a speaker at a concert and felt the bass move through your chest, you already understand the basic…
Fosi’s $150 Headphone Amp Snaps to Your iPhone Instead of Dangling
The dongle DAC has become a familiar but awkward sight plugged into the bottom of a smartphone, a small reminder that the headphone jack didn’t…
Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection
For more than four decades, the global high-end audio industry revolved around one annual ritual in Munich. Every May engineers, and audiophiles gathered at HIGH…
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Co-Designed a Synth So Good It’s Now a Collector’s Item
Transparency in tech has followed the classic arc of any design trend: radical, then referential, then mainstream, then meaningful. Nothing made it radical. Dozens of…
This Ceramic Vase Is Actually a Phone Speaker That Needs No Power
The home has become increasingly cluttered with gadgets that need charging, pairing, and their own dedicated spaces. Even something as simple as playing music from…