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.

Rotel Michi Q5 video review by John Darko July 19, 2025, 14:35 ...

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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 ...

Bluesound has announced a ‘2025’ (N331) version of its popular Powernode streaming amplifier. Carried over from the previous model is the BluOS software system that additionally supports Spotify ...