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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The direct-drive motor sealed it. That, and the copper-topped platter. And the high-gloss wood veneer. And the mid-century modern look. And the absence of a felt mat, which I cannot stand. So yes: in ...

Scary Monsters. And super creeps. David Bowie. And Robert Fripp. Listen intently to the album on a decent hi-fi system and you’ll not miss the King Crimson founder’s “Applied Frippertronics”: guitar ...