The FiiO Warmer R2R DAC serves up three stems of audiophile catnip for €379/US$349: tubes, resistor ladders and analogue VU ...

The streaming pre-amplifier serves as the control hub. It runs BluOS for network streaming duties, which brings Apple AirPlay 2, Qobuz Connect, Tidal Connect, Spotify Connect and Roon Ready along for ...

Room acoustics sit at the very top of my audio improvement hierarchy. Above loudspeakers. Above loudspeaker placement. Above amplification. Above source components. Above everything else. A €500 pair ...

Audeze has quietly dropped a successor to its LCD-5 flagship headphone. The LCD-5s made its debut at NAMM 2026, bringing the company’s SLAM acoustic technology (previously reserved for the US$5995 ...

Shanling’s Onix subbrand / OEM rounds out its three-quarter-width Zenith lineup with the XMT20 – a streaming transport that ...

Bowers & Wilkins has unveiled the 707 Prestige Edition, a dressed-up version of its entry-level 700 Series standmount ...

Calling a component “musical” works the same way. It doesn’t tell you about tonal balance, timbre, texture, rhythm or speed.

iFi’s new flagship desktop unit combines DAC, network streamer and headphone amplifier in a single chassis (that looks like two). It’s aimed squarely at listeners who believe higher sample rates ...

This reminds us that hi-fi is more about behavioural psychology than, say, the divisive and entirely false dichotomy of “100% ...