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

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

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 ...

The direct-drive motor sealed it. That, and the copper-topped platter. And the high-gloss wood veneer. And the mid-century modern look. And the absence of a felt mat, which I cannot stand. So yes: in ...

John then steers proceedings toward the HiFiMAN HE600 (review here ), setting it directly alongside the FiiO FT7. He frames ...

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, ...

The typical hi-fi subwoofer spends most of its life on the floor, wedged wherever there’s space. Aesthetics rather than ...

Scary Monsters. And super creeps. David Bowie. And Robert Fripp. Listen intently to the album on a decent hi-fi system and you’ll not miss the King Crimson founder’s “Applied Frippertronics”: guitar ...

If you wished that Shanling’s EC3 and ET3 CD spinners supported SACDs but you don’t – understandably – have the €18K to splash on the Chinese manufacturer’s uber high-end CD-T35 disc player, then ...

Eversolo is a name that’s been hard to miss this year. Despite offering just a handful of products thus far, rave reviews and highly positive forum discussions about the brand seem almost unavoidable.