The MODEL 70 and the CD 70 pick up where the PM6007 and CD6007 left off. In Marantz’s own words, they are “the next evolution ...

Half of the people buying CDs in the USA this year don’t own a CD player. Hold that thought, though, because CD sales are up 16 percent year on year for the first half of 2026, reaching 16.3 million ...

The Shanling SCD3.3 and the SACD "Gotcha" you need to know about.

Ferrum’s new BROEN is a streaming transport: it pulls in digital audio streams over your network or from directly attached storage devices, then passes them back out over I2S, AES/EBU, coaxial, ...

Yesterday, we had Ferrum’s BROEN leaning on Volumio’s software while handing the digital-to-analogue conversion off to an outboard box. Today, the people who write that software show how they’d do the ...

Shanling’s M0 Pura is the fourth generation of the company’s smallest portable touchscreen player, and before anyone gets the wrong idea, it won’t stream music over the air. There’s no WiFi, and ...

Cheap and experimental at one end, freshly unveiled high-end at the other: the latest Darko.Audio podcast episode has Srajan and me working both. I start at the affordable end with the Schiit Buf, a ...

From a 2016 IFA press conference in Berlin, Sony launched the MDR-1000X to the European market: a Bluetooth headphone that would debut the company’s ‘hi-res-capable’ (but lossy) LDAC codec. If that ...

“Instagram gold!” is how I described the cassette player animation running on Sony’s NW-A306 Walkman (aka DAP) when playing files from a microSD card. That was 2023. Almost two years down the line, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eversolo is a name that’s been hard to miss this year. Despite offering just a handful of products thus far, rave reviews and highly positive forum discussions about the brand seem almost unavoidable.