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Howard is building The Listening Chair’s new, ultra-high performance Sound Lab. Nestled amongst nature away from the hustle and bustle of the city, it will serve as our sonic headquarters and provide a dedicated environment to conduct product reviews and auditions, create pre-recorded videos and...

I don't know his plans. Hopefully, he will be there. The Listening Chair team will be there--hopefully including Jiles! thx.

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Howard's copper photo column, this month on a loom of IsoAcoustics vibration management products, is out. Click on the link below to explore...

Join The Listening Chair’s Colin Saunders as he unboxes a $10,000+ cable loom from Germany’s VIABLUE. In the loom are the company’s power cord and digital and analog cables, one or more of which Colin will use for a review. These cables are luxury products with precision and jewel-like...

Have not been to kemper's home, but looks like speaker cables to me.

The Listening Chair’s Kemper Holt has in for review FYNE AUDIO’s F1-8 stand mounted speaker ($10,499/pr.). Its cabinet is supported on a machined aluminum plinth that houses the company’s proprietary bass diffuser. Surrounded by a rubber surround, the F1-8 features a 200mm low frequency driver...

The Listening Chair with Howard Kneller and HI END Sound & Surround Facebook groups have partnered with Qobuz to give away three one-year Qobuz subscriptions (Hi-Quality Music Streaming). To enter the contest: (1) Be a member of both Facebook groups and follow The Listening Chair’s Facebook...

In from IsoAcoustics, Howard has in a number of the company's OREA Graphite and Bronze isolator footers ($45 and $50 USD each, respectively), a pair of ISO-130 bookshelf speaker stands ($100 USD'pair), an Aperta sub stand ($150), and a Zazen II component ($230) platform. Despite hearing a lot...

The last, but certainly not least, room that the Listening Chair visited at the Florida International Audio Expo was from Audio Group Denmark. With four rooms, this was the company’s high-end offering with equipment totaling around $400,000 USD. What we heard consisted of system in a bi-amping...

One of the rooms that The Listening Room visited on the last day of the...

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JAVA Hi-Fi, the Auckland, New Zealand-based company founded by Martin Bell, Shane Inder, and Martin Young, brought its $16,995 USD Double Shot Carbon intergrated amp to the Florida International Audio Expo. This amp was driving a pair of Vienna Acoustics Mozart SE Signature speakers (from...

The aptly-named House of Stereo demonstrates incredible gear from Germany's T+A and Switzerland's Stenheim, with some all-American VPI and Synergistic Research in the mix too. Follow The Listening Chair's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556741638528) and YouTube...