Rhino has announced a super deluxe edition of Talking Heads’ Fear of Music. It comes in two flavours: a 3CD/Blu-ray set and a ...

Schiit’s Freya 2 is a balanced pre-amplifier with four tubes poking out of its lid and a solid-state understudy behind each one. Schiit calls this Fusion Architecture. The stand-ins are depletion-mode ...

Four years is a long time in the Bluetooth headphone world. The EAH-A800 landed in 2022. Now the EAH-A1000 sits atop the Japanese company’s over-ear range, and its driver technology comes from the ...

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 ...

Last week, we gave the AudioQuest DragonFly Copper (€249/US$249) a job it was never explicitly designed for: I slid it into the USB-A socket on the back of the WiiM Ultra, tapped the Ultra’s front ...

🎵 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 ...

Most DACs available today use a delta-sigma chip. However, a handful of holdouts still prefer R2R, which does the digital-to-analogue conversion with a ladder of resistors, one rung per bit. The R2R ...

iFi audio’s GO link dongle DAC now has a stranger sibling. The new GO cable puts the DAC and headphone amplifier inside the cable itself. USB-C goes in one end, and a pair of 0.78mm 2-pin connectors ...

Two months with the Bowers & Wilkins 804 D5, and this 3-way floorstander surprised me in three different ways. At €18,000/US$25,000 per pair, that’s not a claim I make lightly. The 804 D5 doesn’t ...

Hi-fi prices only ever seem to travel in one direction, so a new DAC arriving at US$100 less than the model it replaces is unusual enough to lead with. Schiit Audio has announced Bifrost 3. It keeps ...

Marantz has taken the wraps off the MCR 60n, the follow-up to the M-CR612 (which was known as the Melody X in some markets). By the company’s own reckoning, it’s the most capable compact all-in-one ...