Cheap and experimental at one end, freshly unveiled high-end at the other: the latest Darko.Audio podcast episode has Srajan and me working both. I start at the affordable end with the Schiit Buf, a ...

Sonus faber has taken the covers off Olympica G3, a five-model loudspeaker range that revisits one of the Italian ...

The Shanling SCD3.3 is a top-loading CD/SACD player that folds in some very basic USB drive file playback and Bluetooth ...

The plan was the new DragonFly Copper, AudioQuest’s latest dongle DAC. German customs had other ideas, and it took its time reaching Berlin. So only four dongle DACs made the table, with the Copper ...

📖 https://www.whathifi.com/streaming-entertainment/streaming-hardware/apple-officially-announces-tvos-27-and-it-nearly-makes-up-for-the-missing-next-generation ...

It’s been an interesting month for ‘new’ old music. Placebo ‘Re-Created’ its 1996 indie-rock debut to mark the album’s 30th anniversary: a remix (plus overdubs) pushes its guitar sound closer to early ...

This is the second in a series of four – maybe five – CD player reviews for 2026. There’s a small and slightly daft pleasure in a top-loading CD player, the kind that makes you lower the disc onto the ...

A few things didn’t make the final cut of my SA45 video. Almost all of them were editorial casualties. Here’s what got the chop. 1. Why didn’t I use the supplied puck microphone? Habit, mainly. I’ve ...

Apple will extend Apple Music’s hi-res lossless support to the Apple TV via tvOS 27, due later this year. MacRumors has the story. Currently, tvOS 26 caps Apple Music playback possibilities at 48kHz.

Many people know modern Wharfedale for its heritage retreads: the Denton, the Linton, and the Dovedale. Great loudspeakers, all, but hardly the full picture. The Cambridgeshire brand, owned by China’s ...

🎵 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video – and other videos – can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko ...