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Best Of 2025 Blue Note Equipment Awards
Celebrating the best high
fidelity / high-end audiophile gear of 2025!
High-End Audio
Awards By Enjoy the Music.com
Enjoy the Music.com's
Best Of 2025 Blue Note Awards celebrates the many great achievements
by audiophile manufacturers within the high-end audio and Hi-Res Audio industry. Our
2025
Blue Note Awards is a three decade culmination of reviewing luxurious high-end
audio equipment and carefully
choosing what products have earned special recognition for our annual awards. Our Best Of
2025 Blue Note Award celebrates the finest products we have reviewed during the
previous 12 months. Recipients have
been carefully chosen after much debate and consideration by our staff of
reviewers. With each passing
year our industry has experienced great advancements in technology including analog
circuitry, vinyl LP and analog playback, digital-to-analog
converters (DACs), loudspeaker design, personal media
players, and more. While there are many great
pieces of premium high fidelity audio equipment now available within the marketplace, Enjoy
the Music.com's Best Of 2025 Blue Note Awards is compiled
from products we have reviewed within the past 12 months that have earned extra special
attention.
---> Best Of 2025 Blue Note Equipment Awards.
Hi-Fi+ September 2025 High-End
Audio Magazine
Editorial: Making Great Strides In Audio Equipment
dCS Lina DAC X Digital-To-Analog Converter
PMC prophecy9 Floorstanding Loudspeaker
Chord Electronics Ultima 3 Pre And Ultima 3
Master Fidelity NADAC Digital-To-Analog Converter
Linn Klimax Solo 500 Mono Power Amplifier
Innuos ZENith NG Music Server
Wattson Audio Madison LE Streaming DAC/Headamp
Gold Note HP-10 Deluxe Headphone Amplifier
Chord Company ARAY RF-Controlling Range
Seismion Reactio 2 Anti-Vibration Platform
...And Much More!
---> Hi-Fi+'s
September 2025 High-End Audio Magazine.
IFA 2025 To Feature
Immersive Music Experiences
With an impressive 215,000 attendees from 138 countries and featuring ~1800 exhibitors plus 187 conference speakers, the 101st edition of IFA is scheduled from September 5th through 9th in Berlin. Berlin's popular Messe Berlin conference center will transform into the world's consumer-tech showcase as IFA
(Internationale Funkausstellung) features consumer electronics and home audio. While other events may feature legacy devices, now in its 101st edition, IFA offers attendees every facet of tomorrow's lifestyle: from smart home music distribution and automation to AI-driven voice-activated audio connectivity, digital gear, mobile hi-fi solutions, and much more! Attendees navigate themed show areas that unite global brands, innovative startups, and reseller forums under one sprawling roof, ensuring that buyers, press, and enthusiasts all find their niche. Building on its century-long legacy, today's modern IFA 2025 introduces immersive experience zones designed to spark creativity and community.
---> IFA 2025 To Feature Immersive Music Experiences. 
CEDIA 2025 Luxury Audio / Video And Integrator Event
CEDIA Expo/CIX returns to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver from September 3rd through 6th, co-located with Commercial Integrator Expo for the third consecutive year. Attendees will explore ~300 exhibitors showcasing smart home and commercial AV technologies—spanning luxury audio, immersive home theater, integrated lighting, outdoor living, and Work-From-Home solutions. The show floor will feature an immersive Smart Stage thought-leadership sessions, interactive demos, and the Launchpad area, where emerging brands unveil pioneering products that elevate sound, display, and control systems. This unified event enables integrators, designers, architects, and manufacturers to discover cutting-edge innovation, compare solutions side-by-side, and gain insights from industry experts. This
year's expo spotlights strong category growth with more than 50 new-to-show companies joining established brands and mid-sized enterprises. In audio, many innovative companies will deliver premium listening
experiences....
---> CEDIA 2025 Luxury Audio / Video And Integrator Event. 
Tencent Music Achieves A Standout Q2 2025
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, a leading online music entertainment platform with 124.4 million paying users and 553 million total monthly active users, delivered a standout second quarter in 2025, with total revenues climbing 17.9% year-over-year to RMB 8.44 billion
(U.S. $1.18 billion). Online music services drove much of that growth—up 26.4% to RMB 6.85 billion—while music subscription revenue alone rose 17.1% to RMB 4.38 billion. Strong unit economics lifted monthly ARPPU from RMB 10.7 to RMB 11.7, fueling a 43.2% jump in net profit attributable to equity holders to RMB 2.41 billion (US $336 million) and a non-IFRS net profit increase of 37.4%. At quarter end, cash, cash equivalents, term deposits and short-term investments totaled RMB 34.92 billion, underpinning the
company's robust balance sheet. On the user front, Tencent Music's ecosystem remains vast and engaged. Monthly active users for online music stood at 553 million, with paying subscribers rising 6.3% to 124.4 million....
---> Tencent Music Achieves A Standout Q2 2025. 
Great News! SWAF And PAF 2026 Show Updates
Southwest Audio Fest (SWAF) listens to vendors and attendees. "For years the audio industry has talked about how slow Sundays are," says Lou Hinkley and Gary Gill of SWAF. "We at SWAF have listened and are dropping Sundays and adding Thursday to generate more traffic, while leaving you more time on Sundays for your families. Our experience at the Southwest Audio Fest seems like Dallas would be a perfect candidate to try the Thursday – Friday - Saturday experience. Thursday’s show hours will be 2pm
to 8pm, providing more options for attendees with busy schedules. Friday and Saturday will remain 10am
to 6pm with many rooms having evening and after hours listening events. See you all in July 2026 at
SWAF! The latest news from Pacific Audiofest (PAF): "In 2024 we considered making PAF a biennial event, and scheduled the next show for 2026," says PAF. "Turns out everyone wants it to be an annual event. So beginning in 2026 it will continue every
year."
---> Great News! SWAF And PAF 2026 Show Updates.
World Premiere Review!
The Amazing Audionet Mach Linestage And Schrödinger
Monoblock Amplifier Review
A more affordable slice of World-Class performance.
Review By Senior Editor Greg Weaver
If you are unfamiliar with the brand Audionet, one of
today's premier audio electronics manufacturers located in Berlin, Germany, it's
time to correct that oversight. Founded in 1994, after nearly a decade of developing sensors and measurement
electronics, all of which produced extraordinarily weak signals, and the
essential need to build highly reliable, high-resolution analog amplifiers for
this entirely new breed of measurement electronics at Ruhr University in Bochum,
western Germany, that same research team, who were also music lovers, created
what would become Audionet. Armed with the invaluable experience gained building these
low-noise, highly resolving amplifiers, they began building some of the most
refined and precise audio electronics available, and now, more than thirty years
later, they have grown to offer a full line of some of the finest linestages,
stereo, mono, and integrated amplifiers.
--->
The Amazing Audionet Mach Linestage And Schrödinger Monoblock Amplifier Review.
World Premiere Review!
Genesis Advanced Technologies Premium Platinum Phono Preamplifier Review
Immersing yourself within the sensational sound of spectacular music.
Review By Senior Editor Tom Lyle
Within the July 2025 issue of Enjoy The
Music.com's Review Magazine, I reviewed
the Genesis Advanced Technologies G7 Samba floorstanding loudspeakers.
Even though my reference speakers were priced considerably higher than the
Sambas, it was relatively easy to overlook this fact due to the Genesis'
outstanding sound quality, not to mention their good looks. After this Genesis
speaker's review was published, I had a chat with Genesis dealer Larry Borden of
Distinctive Stereo when he came over to pick up the speakers. We didn't discuss
the speakers as much as we talked about high-end audio in general, and of
course, music. This led us to the topic of analog reproduction, and it was
then that he mentioned the Genesis Premium Platinum phono preamp. This caught me
off guard. I had always thought that Genesis only designed and manufactured
loudspeakers. When I was speaking with Genesis's Chief Designer and CEO Gary
Koh he shared with me some specifics about the various phono preamplifiers he
owned over the years, but had never been wholly satisfied with.
--->
Genesis Advanced Technologies Premium Platinum Phono Preamplifier Review.
FiiO Fantastic CP13 Cassette Player, RR11 Radio, And SA1 Desktop Speakers Review
Three musical treats for the road less
traveled.
Review By Paul Schumann
When
I started grad school, I had to make the trek from Austin, TX, to Knoxville, TN,
in my 1980 Toyota Celica. Since space would be limited, I had to figure out how
to bring some of my music with me so I could retain my sanity during my first
semester of graduate studies. That's when I decided to plunge into portable
audio and bought my first Walkman. I already had most of my albums recorded on
tape, so I wouldn't be missing out on much. Plus, this Walkman included a tuner,
so I could listen to anything new coming out. Sure, the sound wasn't the best, but I had music until I could
haul my system and records later on. The flaw in my plan was that I didn't
anticipate how quickly that little Walkman ate batteries. I was a poor grad
student, so I used the Sears card my parents gave me "for emergencies" and
bought a couple of sets of rechargeables. After that, I was set. That old
Walkman and those tapes are long gone, but I have fond memories of how that
technological marvel provided me with music during those stressful times.
--->
FiiO Fantastic CP13 Cassette Player, RR11 Radio, And SA1 Desktop Speakers
Review.
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