I can’t think of another hi-fi manufacturer that puts out new products at anything like FiiO’s rate. In 2026, that rate has ...

YBA is going portable. The French brand was founded in 1981 by Yves-Bernard André and has been owned by China’s Shanling since 2009. Its new VIBE series for headphone listeners and smaller desktop ...

UMe has added The Velvet Underground’s 1969 self-titled third album to its Vinylphyle series of all-analogue reissues. The wrinkle? This edition is cut from Lou Reed’s “Closet Mix” and – as far as I ...

🎵 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video – and other videos – can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko John splits his time ...

With side-by-side comparisons to the KEF LS50 Meta and Sonus faber Lumina II.

Approximately three years ago, I had the opportunity to review JBL’s reintroduction of its L100 speaker. That new L100 Classic featured the outward appearance of the original, with its iconic Quadrex ...

Full-size headphones. Five flavours. Dynamic. Planarmagnetic aka isodynamic. Air-motion transformer aka AMT. Electrostatic. True ribbon. Rare hybrids may combine a dynamic driver with a balanced ...

How do you follow up on a massively successful product? That was the conundrum faced by China’s Zidoo in the wake of the runaway success of its Eversolo-branded DMP-A6: a streaming DAC which many ...

It has occurred to me that some audiophiles will find the new Playback Designs MPD-8 Dream DAC (US$22,000) to be an audacious name for a new product. But those of us that have been familiar with the ...

Scary Monsters. And super creeps. David Bowie. And Robert Fripp. Listen intently to the album on a decent hi-fi system and you’ll not miss the King Crimson founder’s “Applied Frippertronics”: guitar ...

In a recent video, I said that I didn’t see the utility of multi-room streaming for smaller apartments; that if I wanted to hear music while I was upstairs in my 80sqm one-bedroom duplex, I’d simply ...

Not every record I own is an audiophile pressing. Not everything that I stream has outstanding dynamic range. Not every CD I own is the original master. The Rotel Michi X3 Series 2 doesn’t punish me ...