Portable CD players keep on coming. And out of China. The latest is the Cayin CP6, a battery-powered CD player with a proper ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The plan was the new DragonFly Copper, AudioQuest’s latest dongle DAC. German customs had other ideas, and it took its time reaching Berlin. So only four dongle DACs made the table, with the Copper ...

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 ...

It’s been an interesting month for ‘new’ old music. Placebo ‘Re-Created’ its 1996 indie-rock debut to mark the album’s 30th anniversary: a remix (plus overdubs) pushes its guitar sound closer to early ...

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