T+A’s flagship stereo power amplifier sat at the top of the Herford company’s HV series for over a decade before its maker ...

I took a few days away from hi-fi reviews last week. Naturally, my mind drifted back to hi-fi reviews. Ha. Not to any review in particular. Something altogether more meta: the question of what makes ...

This is the fourth in a series of four – maybe five – CD player reviews for 2026. One answer is that it’s made in Japan, not China. Another is that Marantz builds its own optical disc mechanism there, ...

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

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-speed mastering cuts the lacquer at 16⅔ RPM instead of 33⅓ RPM. This gives the cutting stylus double the time to accurately carve any intricate high frequencies and transients into the groove. As ...

I recently put up a poll on the Darko Audio YouTube channel: when did you last buy a CD? Just under 10,000 people responded. Three things stood out from the results (shown above). There isn’t much ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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