One solution is to block sounds before they hit our room’s naked surfaces – the walls and the ceiling – with physical ...

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 ...

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

A dongle DAC and headphone amplifier with desktop-level performance? That appears to be the proposition of FiiO’s QX13. Measuring 6.4cm x 1.3cm x 3cm and weighing less than 40g, the QX13 takes in ...

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

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 ...

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

Nine from me, three from Patrons.12 examples of wishful thinking in the hi-fi community by John Darko June 9, 2025, 13:08 ...

It's far, far more than a streaming DAC.Grimm MU2 video review by John Darko May 10, 2025, 10:05 ...

Campfire Audio is back with another new IEM model — one that plays at the shallow end of the price pool. The Axion was first teased at the Portland company’s ‘Multiverse’ event last year and is the ...

The listening room in which our loudspeakers sit plays a crucial role in what we hear from those loudspeakers; more so than any amplifier or source component. How so? The room’s dimensions and its ...