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The 2023 HIGH END MUNICH Show • ROBERT HARLEY, MICHAEL FREMER, AND ANDREW QUINT REPORT FROM THE WORLD'S PREMIER AUDIO EVENT

The Absolute Sound's 2023 Golden Ear Awards • The Absolute Sound's Golden Ear Awards is the annual feature in which our staff and freelance writers choose those components that stand out from the competition. Some of these components are longstanding references that have withstood the test of time. Others are newfound favorites destined to become classics. In either case, the products selected for a Golden Ear Award are special. Unlike our Editors' Choice Awards (a compendium of every product we recommend, chosen by consensus of the senior editorial staff), Golden Ear Awards allow each writer to express his or her individual views on which components are truly great—and why. The diversity of products selected here reflects not just the industry at large, but also each writer's quest for the absolute sound.

Esoteric Grandioso T1 • Esoteric Celebrates 35 Years

Hana Umami Blue • Lightning Strikes Again, And This Time It's Blue!

Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement V2.1 Moving-Coil Cartridge • A Paragon of Neutrality

A Short Interview with Clearaudio's CEO Robert Suchy

NAD C 3050 LE Stereophonic Amplifier • NAD Max

McIntosh MC451 Power Amplifier • The Best of Both Worlds

NuPrime AMG One Monoblock Power Amplifier • A No-Brainer Recommendation

Burmester BC350 Loudspeaker • Beauty and the Beast

Bravo, Indeed

Manufacturer Comments

Higher Ground • Bruce Cockburn Keeps the Faith on O Sun, O Moon

Dorothy Ashby • New Compilation Features a Ground- Breaking Harpist

Sinfonia antartica • How Wind, Ice, and Cold Inspired a Symphony

Winning the War and Getting the Last Laugh • The Musical Conscience That Outlasted a Tyrant

Frampton Is Feeling It • Early Peter Frampton Studio Albums Remastered by Intervention

MUSIC ROCK ETC

MUSIC JAZZ

MUSIC CLASSICAL

Q&A Brad Lunde • Lone Mountain Audio, Distributor of ATC Loudspeakers