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Details: Written by: Geoffrey Morrison; Created: 15 December 2025

The SoundStage! Network has just announced the winners of our Product of the Year awards, along with three new recipients of our Outstanding Achievement awards. Cruise on over to SoundStage! Hi-Fi for a full list of winners, or check out the video presentation on our YouTube channel. Among the award winners are two headphones and two earphones, one each in the Outstanding Performance and Exceptional Value categories, and all reviewed during 2025 on SoundStage! Solo. Suffice it to say they’re all great.

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Details: Written by: Geoffrey Morrison; Created: 01 October 2025

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I’m writing this on my last flight of a two-month trip around the world. It started in Japan in July—which I’ve already written about. It’s ending now after I spent some time in New Hampshire and Maine with my dad. As I’ve done for the last several years, I brought with me the Sony WF‑1000XM4 earbuds. I love their sound, and their noise canceling is very good. They’re fantastic, or should I say, they were fantastic. Sadly, the XM4s are not long for this world.

Details: Written by: Geoffrey Morrison; Created: 01 September 2025

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Deep in the heart of Tokyo is a legendary neighborhood. Well, to be fair, there are a lot of legendary neighborhoods in Tokyo, but this one has special interest for tech nerds like us. Its actual name is Akihabara, but it’s better known by its nickname: Electric Town. It has long been a hot spot for gadgets of all kinds, big and small. During the Japanese electronics boom of the 1980s, it was said you’d be able to find rare, often Japanese-market-only devices. You also might be able to nab gear that wouldn’t be available elsewhere in the world for months or maybe years.

Details: Written by: Geoffrey Morrison; Created: 01 August 2025

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There is a place that all gearheads and tech nerds must visit at least once in their lives. A store so epic, so incredible, that it almost defies description. To put it broadly, imagine if an entire Best Buy (or your local electronics store) was dedicated to what is now just one section within that store. Then you stack eight floors on top of it, each with its own focus. So an entire Best Buy’s worth of space just for TV/AV. Above that, an entire Best Buy’s worth of space just for cell phones, and so on. Add in a floor for clothes, a floor with a food court, and suddenly you start to get the idea. It’s like an entire mall’s worth of floorspace dedicated to tech and other gear.

Details: Written by: Geoffrey Morrison; Created: 01 July 2025

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Last month, I wrote about a new streaming service that promises high-resolution, lossless audio. The main difference between Pure Audio and all the other streaming services that offer high-resolution, lossless audio is its focus on spatial audio. Fair enough.