The Gearhead

The word ‘balanced’ gets a lot of play in HiFi audio, and unsurprisingly the single word happens to mean a few different things across the hobby. Whether adjusting the “balance pot” of input tubes,…

Weiss Engineering’s DAC502 reminds me of a speedboat. It’s got the right stuff in the right places, and dumps the extra weight to make racing form. It’s sleek, and boy is it honest. Those looking for…

I’m a bit of an audiophile tweaker. And by that I don’t mean strung-out junkie, or worse, but I mean that I like to make tiny improvements all over my system, constantly, almost as if by involuntary c…

About 30 of us gathered last Thursday at The Music Room headquarters for the first time in more than 2 years to attend our monthly company meeting – *gasp* – IN PERSON. It was a bit surreal to all…

The fine folks at REL Acoustics have been busy, busy, busy, and have announced this week a brand new model as the flagship subwoofer in the Home Theater series, the HT/1510 Predator. I wanted to…