Gold Note PA-1175 MkII Stereo Power Amplifier Review
Gold Note, located in Florence, Italy, is a small and unique audio manufacturer. They design and build all of their products in-house...
Gold Note, located in Florence, Italy, is a small and unique audio manufacturer. They design and build all of their products in-house...
We all know that Italian sports cars are among the most desired in the world. The Stradivarius violin is from Cremona, Italy. Italian fashion also sets the stan...
With the world economy the way it is right now, most people are looking for value when they spend their money. Audio products manufacturers...
From Feliks Audio, a company in Poland, and HIFIMAN, a company in China, comes a combination made in heaven: the Feliks Audio Envy 300B Tube Headphone Amplifier...
In my video series, Home Theater 101+, I described three different bookshelf speakers that are excellent choices for setting up a basic...
In my video series, Home Theater 101+, I described three different bookshelf speakers that are excellent choices for setting up a basic system. I have since the...
New music recordings are put on the virtual music store shelves every day. Most of them are now 24/96 stereo, whereas they used to be 16/44.1. That's good. Anot...
In my video series, Home Theater 101+, I described three different bookshelf speakers that are excellent choices for setting up a basic system. Monitor speakers, which are used in studios for mastering professional recordings, can also be used in home theaters. Aperion Audio Theatrus T80 Cinema Studio Monitor Speakers are one such possibility.
In my video series, Home Theater 101+, I describe three different bookshelf speakers that are excellent choices for setting up a basic system. Well, here is a fourth choice, and an excellent one, Aperion Audio Verus III Concert V8B bookshelf speakers.
Kinki Studio is a company operating out of China, and it sells direct to consumers worldwide. Their EX-P7 preamplifier has extraordinarily low distortion and a rise in the frequency response of about 1.5 dB between 1 kHz and 20 kHz which produces very fine detail.
A message to the SECRETS Family, our Readers, Sponsors, and Supporters. Wow, how did it get to be 2023? My thanks to all of you for your support...
Dear Friends, 2022 has been another whirlwind of a year. No sooner did it start than we seem to find ourselves again in the grasp of December’s final weeks, ...
Bowers & Wilkins has followed their PX7 wireless headphones with the PX8, reviewed here. They have new carbon-fiber cones, real leather...
For those of us who are vinyl afficionados, the past two decades have been very exciting. We bought turntables, nice phono cartridges, a phono preamplifier if o...
Secrets Editor-In-Chief John Johnson reviews an immersive Dolby ATMOS music release of Home by pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff, from 2L Music.
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. John E. Johnson, Jr. founded Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity in 1994, shortly after publishing a hardcopy book of the same title. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity until 2022. John has been involved in audio and video for more than 50 years, having built radio transmitters, amplifiers, turntables, and speakers from scratch. He was also one of the founders of the Northern California Audio Video Association, now The Bay Area Audio Society. John holds four university degrees, including a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and has published numerous scientific books, along with dozens of scientific articles on biomedical research topics as well as imaging technology. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of two medical/scientific journals for 20 years. John holds several patents, including one on high resolution image analysis and one on a surgical instrument. He has been affiliated with NASA, The National Institutes of Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Stanford Research Institute, and The University of California at Berkeley. He is President of the consulting firm Scientific Design and Information, Inc., which is based in Redwood City, California. John resides in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and multiple kitties! His daughter, Cynthia, who was an integral part of SECRETS for many years, resides in San Francisco.