QUAD news has lately arrived from the top down: the Revela loudspeakers in 2023, refreshed ESL electrostatics last year, and the flagship Platina electronics perched above the reborn 33/303. The new ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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