The EC Zero T also has a desktop mode that disengages the battery in favour of wall power and can be used as a standalone USB ...

Sitting in front of the L-505z is like being back in the 80s with E.T. on VHS and Terence Trent D’Arby on the radio. Adding ...

One of the most visually striking turntables not to sell for crazy money just got an update. Vertere’s ‘entry-level’ ...

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Musical Fidelity’s X-Tube is a tube of tubes. It’s a tube buffer that sits in the signal path between the source device and the integrated amplifier (or pre- and power amplifier) to 1) improve the ...

Voice control of a WiiM device? An outboard Alexa device catches our voice commands and relays them to the cloud, with the returning audio stream routed to the WiiM streamer running on the same data ...

Hot on the heels of Rotel’s DX-3 – a more compact headphone and pre-amplifier – comes the similarly compact DX-5, an integrated amplifier with a smattering of Future-Fi. The DX-5’s Class A/B amplifier ...

Campfire Audio is back with another new IEM model — one that plays at the shallow end of the price pool. The Axion was first teased at the Portland company’s ‘Multiverse’ event last year and is the ...

John currently lives in Berlin where he creates videos and podcasts for Darko.Audio. He has previously contributed to 6moons, TONEAudio, AudioStream and Stereophile.