And yet some manufacturers are prepared to take risks with colour – the DALI Kupid, for example, come in yellow, blue, white, ...

The new CT90 top-loading CD transport picks up where the ET3 left off, but with key differences. The compact ET3 was a ...

Silver if you want an ongoing visual reminder of your investment, if your system lives in a shared space, if you’re realistic ...

However, the standout trend for 2025 is that many CD players now include digital inputs, allowing them to serve as DACs for ...

Apple AirPlay comes with a hidden gotcha. Not the “stream-must-travel-through-the-iPhone” gotcha. That’s well known. I’m talking about a different, less obvious gotcha. Awwwwww. What follows is based ...

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.

With the recent release of the QX-8 Digital Hub (US$5950), Ayre Acoustics has filled a major gap in its DAC product line-up, one that previously comprised the Codex (US$1795) and the top-of-the-line ...

It has occurred to me that some audiophiles will find the new Playback Designs MPD-8 Dream DAC (US$22,000) to be an audacious name for a new product. But those of us that have been familiar with the ...

Rotel has been manufacturing hifi products, first as an OEM and then under its own name, since 1961. That’s a few decades older than many of the musicians I listen to. While ageism runs rampant in the ...

Approximately three years ago, I had the opportunity to review JBL’s reintroduction of its L100 speaker. That new L100 Classic featured the outward appearance of the original, with its iconic Quadrex ...

How do you follow up on a massively successful product? That was the conundrum faced by China’s Zidoo in the wake of the runaway success of its Eversolo-branded DMP-A6: a streaming DAC which many ...