The year 1948 was a milestone for music, when the invention of the long-playing record raised the curtain on a new era of high-fidelity sound. The LP not only transformed the recording industry but ...

Building community takes some effort. The Budget Audiophiler helps a young family on their vintage audio quest. Sorry Sonos. A close friend and I were talking a few weeks back about audio. He’s been ...

Does vintage audio still make sense? Only if you follow some basic rules and understand that bargains are becoming harder to find. Buying vintage audio or used high-end audio from the 1980s or 1990s ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

<B>Marantz PM550DC integrated amp </B>(pictures below)- <BR>100w per channel stereo (8ohms), 2 pairs of speaker outputs, champagne exterior with glass LED plate for dB level, 5 band equalizer, all ...

As the years go by, headphones only get better and better. Whether it be actual audio quality or new conveniences, such as wireless connectivity, being introduced, there's plenty of reason to own an ...

The vast majority of people today get their music digitally, listening through earbuds, headphones or small Bluetooth speakers. But there is a small — yet growing — group of music lovers for whom ...

VINTAGE-AUDIO collectors are a peculiar breed of relic hunters—never still, rarely pleased, steadfastly in pursuit of another sonic fix. Many of them may begin ...

Sometimes it is not how good but how bad your equipment reproduces sound. In a previous hackaday post the circuitry of a vintage transistor radio was removed so that a blue tooth audio source could be ...

We’re living in a vinyl renaissance — there’s no doubt about that. Vinyl sales continue to break year-over-year records (and have done so since 2005); its popularity has grown so much that more and ...