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The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.

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Martin 16 Series 2026: The Stage-Acoustics Get a Colorful Update

September 15

With the 2026 update to the Martin 16 Series, the US guitar heavyweight shows how to stay on the cutting edge. Vibrant colors, a new preamp, and Martin’s first short-scale Slope-Shoulder Dreadnought! This is 16 Series 20

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