Buh-bye Spotify | Darko.Audio
Jan 2, 2025 · Recent Posts. iBasso’s Nunchaku is a dongle DAC with tubes February 9, 2025; The most important hi-fi component is your room February 7, 2025; FirstWatt SIT4 review February 5, 2025; In Lisbon/Berlin for review: the FiiO DM13 portable CD player & ripper February 4, 2025; Pro-Ject’s Amp Box RS2 is a solid-state power amplifier…with tubes February 1, 2025; TAD’s ME1TX standmount speaker ...
Bose buys McIntosh, Sonus faber & Sumiko | Darko.Audio
Nov 19, 2024 · FULL PRESS RELEASE. November 19, 2024 – Today, Bose Corporation, a company synonymous with delivering amazing, premium audio experiences since its founding, announced the acquisition of McIntosh Group, the parent company of renowned high-performance and luxury audio brands that include McIntosh and Sonus faber. McIntosh Group manufactures the world’s finest amplifiers, speakers, turntables ...
FiiO teases full-width S15 touchscreen streaming DAC
Jan 5, 2025 · We awarded FiiO’s R9 Product of The Year 2024 for being a vertically oriented streaming DAC with THX headphone amplifier and a native Android OS with Google Play Store-derived app installs – unlike competitive models from Eversolo and Hifi Rose.. Today, FiiO has formally announced the S15: a low-profile full-width streaming DAC with no headphone amplifier and a custom Android OS where ...
Second opinion: Eversolo DMP-A8 review - Darko.Audio
Aug 27, 2024 · Recent Posts. iBasso’s Nunchaku is a dongle DAC with tubes February 9, 2025; The most important hi-fi component is your room February 7, 2025; FirstWatt SIT4 review February 5, 2025; In Lisbon/Berlin for review: the FiiO DM13 portable CD player & ripper February 4, 2025; Pro-Ject’s Amp Box RS2 is a solid-state power amplifier…with tubes February 1, 2025; TAD’s ME1TX standmount speaker ...
Eversolo announces flagship DMP-A10 streaming DAC
Oct 28, 2024 · Good, better, best. It’s a marketing strategy as old as stereo sound.We’ve already seen Eversolo’s ‘good’: the DMP-A6 was 2023’s runaway hit (review here and here).Later that year came the DMP-A8, which (to these ears) sounded quite a bit ‘better’ (review here and here).Now comes the Chinese company’s moonshot: the DMP-A10.
Darko’s Best of 2024 (Part 1): the Moondrop MIAD-01 smartphone
Dec 13, 2024 · There’s enough on offer here soundwise to turn my back on DAPs for the foreseeable future. Yes, I know I said in 2018 that ‘the DAP days were over’ – but that was before the majority of DAP manufacturers moved to smartphone-like Android operating systems with Google Play Store access or, at the very least, a white list of installable apps.
In Berlin for review: Technics’ SC-CX700 streaming loudspeakers
Jan 3, 2025 · Technics has also done something clever with the SC-CX700’s HDMI ARC input. My contact at Technics explained it as follows (and I hope I’ve remembered it correctly): for a device to receive an audio signal through its HDMI ARC …
Darko’s Product of the Year 2024
Dec 24, 2024 · I make €7500/year in affiliate income – what do I spend it on? 2024’s best true wireless IEMs Darko’s Best of 2024 (Part 2): Campfire Audio’s Clara IEM
T+A’s Pulsar S 130 are designed for sub-optimal listening rooms
Jan 6, 2025 · The Pulsar S 130 is a new metre-tall floorstander from T+A: a 3-way bass-reflex loudspeaker – made in Germany – that features two 15cm bass drivers, two 11.5cm midrange drivers and a 2.5cm magnesium dome tweeter.
2024’s best true wireless IEMs | Darko.Audio
Dec 10, 2024 · Bowers & Wilkins launches Pi6, Pi8 true wireless IEMs Sennheiser’s Momentum True Wireless 4 land with aptX Lossless True wireless with a twist: iFi Go pod review