So, you’re blasting music one day and, all of a sudden, your speakers don’t sound right. If the sound is noticeably distorted, then your speakers could be blown out. Speakers are designed to handle ...

Q. I enjoyed your recent column on vintage audio equipment. I have a pair of ESS AMT 1C speakers with Heil Air Motion Transformer drivers. I have owned them since the 1970s and totally enjoy them. How ...

Q. A friend recently gave me a pair of ADS CN-6 bookshelf speakers, both of which have audible faults caused by rats. One tweeter makes an improper bird-tweet sound on high notes, and one woofer has ...

A bit more than a decade ago, the Advent was the loudspeaker to own. It carried the mantle of the original AR and KLH sound. It sprang from the incestuous Cambridge, Mass., speaker scene where speaker ...