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4 days ago | 
ptleader.com | Jason Victor Serinus
I don’t think I can watch one more clip of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray or any other elected official grilling a member of the Trump Administration. The outcome is almost always the same. The lawmaker asks the question, the Trump lawbreaker obfuscates or lies through their teeth, and the lawmaker tells them that their actions are unacceptable, in violation of the law, or both. Over and over, the same scenario repeats.
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5 days ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
As someone who has repeatedly reaped the sonic benefits of MQA, I found the MQA Labs press release tantalizing.
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6 days ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
Göbel didn't debut a new speaker at High End Munich. In a totally selfless world, I would have bypassed the room for another with something new. But I'm an audiophile, and audiophiles have needs. Not having heard a Göbel speaker for a long time, I strolled into the room for a listen. Company founder Oliver Göbel had cued up the same recording of the Calmus Ensemble's "Dindirindin" that I'd heard on the huge, over $2 million Magico / D'Agostino / Wadax / Antipodes / Telos system at AXPONA.
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6 days ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
Three years after finalizing the design of their HQS G 7001 monoblocks, brothers Arnaud and Laurent Fusilier of French company JMF Audio completed the design of the JMF Audio HQS G3 9001 amplifiers ($164,000/pair). Alongside other JMF Audio products, the 9001s debuted at the ancillary HiFi Deluxe show in the Munich Marriott, offering a similar sonic signature as their smaller cousins.
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6 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Jason Victor Serinus
Fiio BT11 - ReviewIn this article, we review FiiO’s new Bluetooth transmitter, the FiiO BT11. It retails for $49 USD. Find out all you need t know about this little device, now on Headfonia. https://www.headfonia.com/fiio-bt11-review/Have a good weekend!#fiio #headfi #headfonia #bt11 #fiiobt11 #review
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6 days ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
"Our new Octave Jubilee Class A mono amplifier has a slightly different sound than the Jubilee Mono SEs you reviewed three years ago," said Andreas Hofmann. Hoffman is the founder and chief engineer of Germany’s Octave Audio, and he was talking about his forthcoming push-pull monoblock, noting that the amp outputs 160W in class-A lower-power mode and 280W in class-A/AB high-power mode. The Octave Jubilee’s projected price is $85,000/pair without potential tariff hikes.
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1 week ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
The Munich unveiling of dCS’s Lina DAC X network music player ($15,500) drew significant attention from lovers of the Lina DAC ($14,400). The debut occurred alongside a static display of the top-of-the-line Varèse transport, due in June. The DAC X includes a new physical volume dial, IR remote control, support for high-resolution streaming via Qobuz Connect, the option to connect CD/SACD transports, and a larger, standard-width chassis machined from solid billet aluminum.
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1 week ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
Over three years ago, when I reviewed Accustic Arts’s AMP V stereo power amplifier, I called it "the most intelligently designed hunk I’ve ever put my hands on, and one of the finest and most musically satisfying amplifiers to ever enter my system." I wish it were still here so I could reevaluate it with my current system, which has become exponentially more revealing. Not content to rest on its laurels, Accustic Arts has since replaced AMP V with (what else) AMP VI.
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1 week ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
The big news in the Constellation room was not the Revelation 2 Series, complete with its special Constellation Switch-Mode Power Supply (C-SMPS)—we’ve reported on it previously, including at AXPONA 2025. Rather, it was the chance to glimpse prototypes of the higher-level Performance 2 stereo amplifier and preamplifier, both due later this year. As Irv Gross, Constellation's VP of Sales, spun silver platters, I spoke with co-founder and CEO Murali Murugasu.
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1 week ago | 
stereophile.com | Jason Victor Serinus
You gotta love press releases. “This May in Munich, history won’t just be written—it will be heard.” Thus opened the invitation to a joint press conference of “two Norwegian powerhouses” whose system “doesn’t whisper innovation—it roars it.”Roaring, however, was not the bottom line of Electrocompaniet and Ø Audio’s personnel and system—not even from Ø’s towering, axe-toting cofounder, Jonathan Magnus Cook. Cook may be huge and he may carry an ax, but I found him soft-spoken when not on camera.
