T+A Talis S330 vs. Vivid Kaya 45?
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 ...
🎵 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video – and other videos – can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko John splits his time ...
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 ...
Already own a Bifrost 2 and wondering what this means for you? You can’t get Forkbeard without buying the new chassis, but ...
Its new VIBE series for headphone listeners and smaller desktop systems opens with the P1: a battery-powered DAC and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I’ve given up on bucket lists, they tempt fate. I imagine the Grim Reaper letting me tick a few things off, then stepping in to cart me away, a wry ‘gotcha’ spread broadly across his face. Swimming ...
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 ...
Gapless playback – “the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks” – is a concept that’s well known to veteran music streamers. Newcomers not so much. Less than twenty-four hours after the ...