FiiO has retired its FT5 open-back planar. The headline change in its replacement, the FT15, is the diaphragm. At 800nm thick, FiiO says it is 86.7% thinner than the outgoing model’s. It also now ...

T+A Talis S330 vs. Vivid Kaya 45?

iFi audio’s GO link dongle DAC now has a stranger sibling. The new GO cable puts the DAC and headphone amplifier inside the cable itself. USB-C goes in one end, and a pair of 0.78mm 2-pin connectors ...

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Marantz has taken the wraps off the MCR 60n, the follow-up to the M-CR612 (which was known as the Melody X in some markets). By the company’s own reckoning, it’s the most capable compact all-in-one ...

Its new VIBE series for headphone listeners and smaller desktop systems opens with the P1: a battery-powered DAC and ...

Already own a Bifrost 2 and wondering what this means for you? You can’t get Forkbeard without buying the new chassis, but ...

Ask any DIY builder and the first thing they’ll point to is the satisfaction of making something from almost nothing with ...

Game time. I’m going to describe an audio product, and you try to figure out exactly what I’m talking about. If you keep up with the latest and greatest by reading DAR, this should be pretty easy 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 ...

Full-size headphones. Five flavours. Dynamic. Planarmagnetic aka isodynamic. Air-motion transformer aka AMT. Electrostatic. True ribbon. Rare hybrids may combine a dynamic driver with a balanced ...

The LS LUXE is an egg-shaped streaming standmount from KEF, designed by Ross Lovegrove. In simple terms, it’s the LS50 Wireless II given a glow-up. That much, I think, is easy to grasp. However, the ...