This post is about behavioural psychology more than it is about hi-fi hardware. A mate of mine in Australia recently moved house. I’ve known Mark for years. He used the occasion to do what any ...

In episode #68 of the Darko.Audio podcast, John opens with a practical fix for a problem that trips up more than a few listeners: how to route TV audio into a DAC that lacks HDMI ARC or TOSLINK inputs ...

FiiO has begun teasing the K17 R2R Pro, a new version of its flagship streaming DAC and headphone amplifier. Beyond the DAC circuit, everything else carries over from the K17: the Linux operating ...

The 2026 poll surfaces one counterintuitive finding. The “more than two shows” cohort, at twelve percent, outpolls both the ...

We wrote about the Musical Fidelity M6xi when it was announced a few weeks ago. Now the British brand (Austrian-owned, operating under the Audio Tuning umbrella that also houses Pro-Ject) has a ...

Some listeners would rather their hi-fi had a little character, a little warmth, a little of what gets loosely described as ...

That’s the concept. Each Wireless Box E is a self-contained mono streaming amplifier that connects directly to a passive loudspeaker’s binding posts via 4mm banana plugs. A stereo pair, therefore, ...

The original HiFiMAN HE6 was one of audio’s great cautionary tales: an audibly extraordinary headphone, but so inefficient that it demanded high-powered headphone amplifiers to reach its potential, ...