Chinese audio manufacturer Sivga has announced the M260, a super-affordable wired IEM built around a 14.2mm dynamic driver.

Shanling has announced the EC Play, the most compact and most affordable portable CD player the Chinese manufacturer has ...

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 ...

Most streaming amplifiers promise simplicity and then promptly hand you a loudspeaker cable management problem. Pro-Ject’s ...

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

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

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, ...

We wrote about the Musical Fidelity M6xi when it was announced a few weeks ago. Now the British brand (Austrian-owned, ...