One thing that I don’t think I made clear enough in my video was that the Michi Q5 is a CD player. I don’t think this ...

At its business end, the Pro-Ject mini offers two single-ended headphone outputs (6.4mm and 3.5mm) that, according to the ...

Yesterday, I published a video comparing the Apple AirPods Pro 2 with two similarly priced wired IEMs: the Sennheiser IE 300 ...

A dongle DAC and headphone amplifier with desktop-level performance? That appears to be the proposition of FiiO’s QX13.

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It’s not new, but it’s new to me: Hiby’s UC10 is a USB-S/PDIF converter for a smartphone or tablet (or PC/Mac). The tiny metal-wrapped dongle acts not as a DAC but as a DDC — a digital audio ...

Last week, we published a video called “The uncomfortable truth about amplifiers”. It summarised my 18-month-long investigation into amplifiers, where each model was compared side-by-side (same time, ...

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.

Value for money hasn't been this high in entry-level hi-fi since the Logitech Squeezebox Touch debuted in 2010.

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 ...

Brit restraint alert: I was somewhat taken with the LS6 speakers from Graham Audio. The design principles behind them swim against the tide. It’s simple – the cabinets are supposed to vibrate. Forget ...

Innuos Phoenix USB reclocker review by John Darko May 29, 2020, 14:12 ...