Today brings news of a streaming DAC from McIntosh ( recently acquired by Bose ). Ordinarily, I would strip the press release back to bare essentials to present the DS200 in my own words. However, a ...

Six months down the line from its Autumn 2024 announcement, Rotel has dispatched a second press release about the Michi Q5 'transport DAC' -- a high-end CD player that can be used as a CD transport, a ...

But consider this: the Nunchaku isn’t only for portable audio use. It’s an affordable way to add a tubed-up DAC to the USB output of an iPad (hello hi-res Apple Music) or the USB output of a CD ...

By measuring our room’s acoustic behaviour, we empower ourselves to make informed decisions about improving its sound and ...

Last watt. It’s never the last word. Instead, it’s more like driving ancient threadbare rubber just before it cracks to cause a blowout. If that’s how sucky things may get, why’d we ever want retreads ...

‘S/PDIF OUT’ mode turns the 3.5mm LO socket into a digital output from which we can extract mini-TOSLINK and coaxial (via the supplied adapter) to feed a third-party DAC. Now the DM13 is a CD ...

Here comes a new compact power amplifier that isn’t made in China: Pro-Ject Audio Systems’ Amp Box RS2 is made in Europe; it ...

TAD has announced the ME1TX standmount loudspeaker, the successor to 2016’s ME1. According to the press release the new model came about via “countless hours spent in the listening room” and features ...

In this episode of the Darko.Audio podcast, Srajan Ebaen and I go deeper than the press release into six new products landing in the head-fi and hi-fi spaces: a high-end modular streamer and CD ...

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: An arm injury has put my typing arm out of action for the next few weeks. This means I am forced to copy/paste press releases instead of re-writing them to strip out the marketing ...