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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We listen and we measure.

Apple AirPlay comes with a hidden gotcha. Not the “stream-must-travel-through-the-iPhone” gotcha. That’s well known. I’m talking about a different, less obvious gotcha. Awwwwww. What follows is based ...

The Line Magnetic 845iA (£3999/US$4895/€3999) is an integrated amplifier with three line-level RCA inputs and a low-ish power output. Even to seasoned audiophiles, 22wpc into 8 Ohms won’t sound like ...

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

This is the third in a series of four – maybe five – CD player reviews for 2026. The Shanling SCD3.3 is a top-loading CD/SACD player that folds in some very basic USB drive file playback. It asks ...