Atoll CD200 CD Player, $2950 Atoll’s magnificent CD200 is a Red Book CD player. It has been designed SPECIFICALLY to play CDs. It doesn’t play SACDs, Blu-rays, DVDs or BetaMax tapes. It was built specifically to play CDs and incorporates many choices that make it IDEAL for that task. I want to put CD200 on your radar because you’re probably reading a…

Atoll IN400 Integrated Amp, $7000 (180×2) {5.11h, 17.32w, 14.17d, 43 lbs} Atoll’s IN400 is a true contender for state of the art integrated amp! I say that without reservation. IN400 is right there with the best of the best, regardless of price. IN400 runs $7k in line stage configuration. Add $320 for the DA100 DAC board and $130 for the P50 MM…

Finally our New Bryston T10 Speakers arrived and really start to ‘sing’ now. They perform very well James with Bryston 7B3 cubed mono-block amplifiers.

When a customer is shopping for an integrated amp or power amp, the first two questions are always: 1) How much power? 2) Price? I don’t understand why the audio mags who review these products bury this information in the fine print more often than not. Over the past half century or more, sleazy companies have learned that they can get away…

Atoll IN100 Integrated Amp $2550 {100 w/ch, With DAC & MM Phono} Atoll DR100 CD Transport $1200 Most of the customers who visit us these days have read about Atoll, but haven’t heard it. We invite you to visit to be as impressed as we are! Atoll is a fabulous brand of affordable electronics, made in France with a 3 year warranty….

Bryston A1 Speakers, $5000 Per Pair {47.5h, 9.25w, 17d, 70 lbs, 88 dB SPL, 4 ohms} Black Ash, Walnut Expresso, Walnut or Boston Cherry Bryston’s A1 is a phenomenal and TOUGH loudspeaker at the very popular price point of $5k per pair. Why should you consider A1 vs a thousand other speakers at this price point? Made In Canada With 20 Year…

Audio Emporium Newsletter 11-1-24 Atoll Streaming Integrated Amplifiers Atoll makes two dynamite streaming integrated amps. First and foremost, these are fabulous sounding integrated amps! They just happen the have Atoll’s outstanding streaming app built it. The streaming app has proven to work quite well in our time with it. Of more importance is the magnificent integrated amp within which it is housed….

Bryston Trim T10 Speakers, $8000 Per Pair {60h, 10w, 16d, 83 lbs, 91 dB SPL, 4 ohms} In Each Tower: Two 6.5” Pure Aluminum woofers Two 6.25” Pure Aluminum midranges Two 1” Titanium tweeters Bryston’s Trim T10 towers go about their business with a more creative design brief than 99.9% of what our industry offers. Let’s take a look at the MO…

Bryston Mini A Speakers, $1665 Per Pair {15.5h, 8.5w, 8.25d, 87dB SPL, 4 ohms} 6.5” Pure Aluminum woofer, 3.5” Pure Aluminum Midrange, 1” Titanium tweeter Bryston’s Mini A stand mount speaker is a Swiss Army knife. It does so much, so well, that it can fit into a myriad of system applications. For openers, Mini A is a legit 3-way, built in…

Axiom M60 Speakers, $2000 Per Pair {37.5h, 9.25w, 15d, 48 lbs, 92 dB SPL, 8 ohms, 10-250 w/ch} Two 6.5” Pure Aluminum Woofers, One 5.25” Pure Aluminum Midrange, 1” Titanium Tweeter Bryston contracted Axiom, a friendly Canadian company down the road a piece, to make its speakers under contract over a decade ago. The project was a home run and the companies…

The “Loudness War” refers to the increasing trend in music production to prioritize loudness over dynamic range, often at the expense of sound quality. ‘Dynamic Range’ is the difference between the quietest and loudest parts of a track. Compressing this range allows producers to make music sound louder, but it often results in a loss of depth, clarity, and emotional impact.

Mobile Fidelity UltraDeck Turntable $1500 Looking at the headline above, you might think you’ve caught Dave with yet another typo. Well this time… I assure you it is NOT a typo. Mo-Fi’s outstanding UltraDeck runs $2500. We’ve sold many dozen at that price point and our customers luv em. They’re running an insane promo price of $1500 right now. It’s time to…

Axiom M3 Speakers, $770 Per Pair {13.5h, 8.5w, 8.25d, 90dB SPL, 8 ohms, 10-200w/ch} One 6.5” Pure Aluminum Bass/Mid, One 1” Titanium Tweeter Made In Canada: Five Year Warranty Let me start by bragging up that Axiom’s M3 is built in Canada with a five year warranty. Virtually every other speaker you’ll see in this price strata is built by some job…

The Klipsch Heritage line of speakers, does what it does, better than any other brand in hi-fi. The K’s produce big dynamics and sound pressure levels. It’s literally a blast to sell these iconic American speakers, built in Arkansas with a ten year warranty. Heresy 4, $3200pr Forte 4, $5000pr Cornwall 4, $6600pr LaScala AL5, $13,200pr Klipschorn AK5, $16,500pr The K Heritage…

This might have been one of the best-sounding setups at the show! Definitely in the top 3 for me. Here we have the Bryston Middle T10 loudspeakers, and they definitely filled the room. The sound was spacious, with excellent separation, and the detail across the whole frequency range was phenomenal…

Rewind to the early 1970s. We had no audiophile cables. Let’s start this conversation with speaker cables. We ran 16AWG and that was THAT. I remember talking to Bill Johnson of ARC in my shop in 1977. He was of the opinion that 16AWG was better than 14AWG, because 14AWG sounded more muddled. Bigger Wire Robert Fulton was an early proponent of…