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Best Of 2024 Blue Note Equipment Awards
Celebrating the best high
fidelity / high-end audiophile gear of 2024!
High-End Audio
Awards By Enjoy the Music.com
Enjoy the Music.com's
Best Of 2024 Blue Note Awards celebrates the many great achievements
by audiophile manufacturers within the high-end audio and Hi-Res Audio industry. Our
2024
Blue Note Awards is a culmination of more than two decades of reviewing high-end
audio equipment and carefully
choosing what products have earned special recognition for our annual awards. Our Best Of
2024 Blue Note Award celebrates the finest products we have reviewed during the
previous 12 months. Recipients have
been carefully chosen after much debate and consideration by our staff of
reviewers. With each passing
year our industry has experienced great advancements in technology including analog
circuitry, vinyl LP and analog playback, digital-to-analog
converters (DACs), loudspeaker design, personal media
players, and more.
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Best Of 2024 Blue Note Equipment Awards.
audioXpress' October 2024 Issue
From the Editor's Desk: Brand Value And Brand Values
Experimental And Theoretical Investigation
Double Bass Arrays
Eliminating Speaker Doppler Distortion
Lessons In Audio
Joachim Gerhard On Low Noise Phono Stages
5th International AES Conference On Automotive Audio
Advances In Measurement Microphones
Scientific Comparisons Of Loudspeakers
And Much More!
---> audioXpress' October 2024
Issue.
HIGH END Munich Show Moves To Vienna In
2026
The HIGH END international audio show will change to a new venue in
2026, with next year's event being at Germany's M.O.C. for the final
time. This move from Munich to Vienna signals a groundbreaking step and was announced by the
High End Society at today's annual general meeting of the Association for High Quality Audio and Video Reproduction. With the decision, the organizer is marking an important milestone on the future path of the
world's leading trade show for enthusiasts of high-quality audio technology.
The HIGH END 2025 will be held in the M.O.C. Event Center once again from May 15 to 18, 2025. But then just a year later, the internationally renowned audio show will exhibit to visitors for the first time in the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in May. The first-class event venue in the heart of
Austria's capital has undergone extensive remodeling in recent years and was equipped with the latest digital technology.
---> HIGH END Munich Show Moves To Vienna In 2026.
United Record Pressing Celebrates Their 75 Year Anniversary
Located in Nashville, a.k.a. Music City, United Record Pressing (URP) continues to press vinyl LP for music lovers worldwide. Within the past handful of years there has been a resurgence of interest with vinyl records, with revenues growing year after year as sales of the digital compact disc have been decreasing. With global sales achieving $1.4 billion in 2023, United Record Pressing and many other vinyl LP pressing plants have been a significant contributor to this resurgence. By consistently delivering quality pressings that appeal to both new and seasoned vinyl enthusiasts, United Record Pressing produces high-end vinyl LPs. That 75 years of experience translates into modern-day, ahead-of-the-game integration like exploring how AI-powered technologies can detect plating issues before they affect production or through collaborations.
---> United Record Pressing Celebrates Their 75 Year Anniversary.
Hi-Fi+ September 2024 High-End
Audio Magazine
Editorial: The Art Of Speaker Design And Engineering
Loudspeaker Hall Of Fame Award 2024
YG Acoustics Cairn Loudspeaker
DALI Rubikore 8 Floorstanding Loudspeaker
Franco Serblin Accordo Goldberg Speaker
Focal Aria X No.3 Floorstanding Speaker
Fyne Audio Vintage 5 Standmount
Dynaudio Evoke 30 Floorstander
KEF LS60 Wireless Active Floorstanders
Graham Audio 10th Anniversary LS6 Speaker
Tannoy Super Gold Monitor SGM12 Speaker.
...And Much More!
---> See Hi-Fi+'s
September 2024 Issue.
Børresen X2 Floorstanding Loudspeakers Review
Fantastic-sounding sleek speakers.
Review By Tom Lyle
The Børresen X2 is the smallest
speaker in Børresen's X-Series. Even though it is Børresen's smallest speaker
in that line, it is a floorstanding speaker 3.5 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds.
Børresen's website calls the X2 intro-level speaker. At $8,800 a pair,
whether one considers this price entry-level is debatable, but everything is
relative – compared with the other speakers in Børresen's X-series, the X2 is
reasonably priced. And as you'll read in this review (spoiler alert!), I
have nothing but praise for the Børresen X2. After unpacking the X2s, I discovered that this slim, stylish
2.5-way floorstanding speaker had quite a small footprint. Viewed from above,
the speakers are more or less triangular. The X2's front baffle is about one
foot wide, but its cabinet narrows as it reaches its rear panel, which is a mere
one inch wide. This narrow rear panel appears slightly wider at points to
allow for the speaker's ports, three round cylinders near the top of its
cabinet, and three near the bottom. At first glance, I thought that the ports
resembled exhaust pipes!
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Børresen X2 Floorstanding Loudspeakers Review.
FiiO R9 Flagship Music Player, Streamer, Headphone Amplifier, And Hi-Res Lossless DAC Review
May the Cube be with you.
Review By Paul Schumann
I've been having a bit of an existential crisis the last
couple of years over one basic question: Am I a Luddite? As a young man who grew
up with a dad who worked for IBM, I felt I was always willing to embrace new
promising technologies. During the late 1970s, we had a prototype for a home
computer for a few months. If you wanted to do anything with it you had to
program it yourself. In my senior year of high school, I built a Heathkit
digital stopwatch to time my friends at track meets. In 1986 I bought a second-gen
CD player when you could still find only a handful of CDs in the record store.
At the same time, however, I stubbornly hung on to the Dynaco stuff I was using.
Why? Because nothing I was listening to in the audio stores
sounded nearly as good. Well, there was the Conrad Johnson and Audio Research
gear, but it was out of my price range. But it seems that through most of my
adult life, I've straddled the divide between "they don't make them like they
used to" and "new and improved".
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FiiO R9 Flagship Music Player, Streamer, Headphone Amplifier, And Hi-Res Lossless DAC
Review.
LampizatOr Pacific 2 DAC Review
One of the best values for a high-performance DAC.
Review By Dr. Matthew Clott
When LampizatOr came out with
their state-of-the-art $49,000 Horizon assault on DAC'dom, they had a larger
plan in mind. The Horizon was the first in an entirely new redesign of
LampizatOr's take on building a digital-to-analog converter. Everything learned
from their first Big7 through the Golden Gate to the Pacific, was a foundation
upon which the next generation of LampizatOr would be based. Somewhere during
the past few years, it became apparent that they had taken their current designs
and engineering schematics to the limits of what those circuits could yield. To progress and advance LampizatOr into the future, a
completely new engine, circuits, power supplies, and enclosure would be needed;
and the Horizon was born. Moving forward, all of their new products will benefit
from design principles inherent in the Horizon.
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LampizatOr Pacific 2 DAC Review.
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