
How Meridian’s $80,000 Speaker Is Made
Behind the scenes with one of the best speaker makers on earth.

Behind the scenes with one of the best speaker makers on earth.
By Sung Han

Nature’s soundtrack is a hard one to rival, but we’ll try anyway.
By Jack Seemer

The days start to stretch and the heat settles in. That calls for the right tunes.
By Jack Seemer

Inside New York’s last sheet music store on its penultimate day of business.
By Chris Wright

In 1957 the Fender Stratocaster electric guitar was a spry three years young; that same year, Levi’s original 1873 patent for riveted denim work pants — the first jeans — was already an octogenarian. But that doesn’t mean those jeans didn’t love to rock ‘n’ roll.
By Nick Caruso

Looking more like a miniature robot monolith than audio componentry, the WOO Audio WA7 Fireflies ($999) is a convenient (ideal) solution to poor desktop sound.
By Amos Kwon


Polishing your six-string chops on the road usually means you’ve either got a motorcade in tow lugging your amps or you’re strumming away unplugged. Vox Apache series guitars keep things cranked during travel and fill in for the band that you’re not yet frontmanning.






Music was his religion.
By Gear Patrol






Somewhere in between The Cure and U2 lies OneRepublic. An anthemic rock band from Colorado Springs (insert requisite comparisons to The Fray here).
By Eric Yang