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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

NAD has announced the C 589, a dedicated CD player that joins its Classic Series. The transport and loader mechanism was reportedly engineered for quiet and stable disc tracking across a wide range of ...

Strip the streaming module out of an active loudspeaker, and what do you get? In the case of KEF’s Coda W: better sound for less money. At €899/US$999, these active loudspeakers cost the same as the ...