US magazine The Absolute Sound has revised its annual Editors’ Choice Awards for 2025, splitting the Awards into two separately-timed categories. The March Awards will now showcase hi-fi products best suited to larger systems in dedicated listening spaces, while the November Awards, launched in the current issue, will focus on hi-fi designed for the typical home listening / living room. Either way, German brand MBL features in the mix.

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US audio magazine The Absolute Sound’s annual Golden Ear Awards single out a small selection of hi-fi components that are individually elected by each of the magazine’s reviewers. Some are longstanding references that continue to stand the test of time, while others are more recent revelations that are doubtless destined to become classics. “In either case, the products selected for a Golden Ear Award are special,” writes editor Robert Harley.  Continue reading MBL’s Radialstrahler loudspeakers and new C41 network player pick up 3 Golden Ear Awards from The Absolute Sound →

“Over the years our editorial staff has hotly debated just which loudspeakers have had the greatest impact on high-end audio,” says US magazine The Absolute Sound in its recent ‘Ultimate Directory of High End Loudspeakers and Cables 2024’  issue. The result of that debate is a definitive list of 15 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time, which includes German MBL’s 101E.

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US magazine The Absolute Sound’s annual Editors’ Choice Awards single out those audio components that the magazine’s editors and expert reviewers deem as “most worthy of your consideration.” So much so, in fact, that “these are components that we ourselves would buy.”  Continue reading MBL collects another 12 Editor’s Choice Awards from The Absolute Sound in 2024 →

In the just-published November issue, US audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound recommends a selection of world-leading audio components in its annual Buyer’s Guide. Once again, MBL’s superb high-end range features heavily, with eleven products highlighted in the 2024 edition.

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“I’ve never heard anything like this before!” declares Jonathan Valin on first listen, despite having lived with the MkI version of MBL’s Radialstrahler loudspeaker system for four years. “The MkII isn’t just a little different sounding than the original. It is astonishingly different sounding – and astonishingly better.”

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“How do you improve on a truly great loudspeaker, especially a sui generis one like the six-foot-tall, four-tower, two-thousand-pound MBL 101 X-Treme MkII Radialstrahelr system?” asks The Absolute Sound in its annual Golden Ear Awards issue (September 2023). The 101 X-Treme is German brand MBL’s astonishing flagship, in a class of its own. And yet, improve it they did.

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Justifiably renowned for its game-changing – and still unique – Radialstrahler loudspeakers, German brand MBL’s three series of electronics also combine a distinctively elegant aesthetic with technical innovation to deliver a sonic performance that is, well, multi award-winning – again!  Continue reading MBL’s superb loudspeakers and electronics collect an impressive 12 Editors’ Choice Awards 2023 from The Absolute Sound →