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Sound & Fury LLC announces the acquisition of AXPONA (Audio Expo North America), the largest high-end audio event in North America.

Julie Mullins gives us the lowdown on SOTA’s many cool offerings at AXPONA 2026, including their flagship Onyx turntable; Quasar, Comet, Escape, and Moonbeam turntables; Pyxi phono stage; and more. . .

Back on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, we here at AP shared our respective Record Store Day 2026 experiences, along with assessments of some of our purchases that day. In that post, we also mentioned that we would be delving into three more RSD 2026 releases at a later time — and that time is now. Read Mark Smotroff’s review (and AP editor Mike Mettler’s footnotes) to see why the RSD 2026 releases from XTC, Buster Williams, and Brian Wilson are all worthy of your attention — albeit for quite different reasons. . .

By almost all accounts, Record Store Day 2026, which took place last Saturday, April 18, 2026, was a rousing success. We here at AP were, of course, out in full force that day, and we can now report back on what we were able to get our hands on in the moment and what we think of them. (Some of our thoughts may surprise you.) We’ll also discuss what we didn’t get, and/or what we’re still looking to get our hands (and ears) on. Read on to see AP editor Mike Mettler and chief LP reviewer Mark Smotroff’s mutual RSD 2026 assessments. . .