FiiO has begun teasing the K17 R2R Pro, a new version of its flagship streaming DAC and headphone amplifier. Beyond the DAC circuit, everything else carries over from the K17: the closed Android 12 ...

I have run this poll twice in the last three years. The results are remarkably consistent. In 2024, I asked my YouTube audience how many hi-fi shows they had attended in the past 20 years.

We wrote about the Musical Fidelity M6xi when it was announced a few weeks ago. Now the British brand (Austrian-owned, operating under the Audio Tuning umbrella that also houses Pro-Ject) has a ...

A tube buffer sits in the signal path between two components, typically between a DAC and an integrated amplifier or between a preamplifier and a power amplifier. It passes the audio signal through a ...

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Most streaming amplifiers promise simplicity and then promptly hand you a loudspeaker cable management problem. Pro-Ject’s ...

The original HiFiMAN HE6 was one of audio’s great cautionary tales: an audibly extraordinary headphone, but so inefficient that it demanded high-powered headphone amplifiers to reach its potential, ...

My favourite Bluetooth headphone of 2025, the Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2, edged out the Sennheiser HDB 630 on tone colour and ...