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 plan was to use the DragonFly Copper, AudioQuest’s latest dongle DAC. German customs had other ideas, and it took its time reaching Berlin. So only four dongle DACs initially made the coffee table ...
This is the third in a series of four – maybe five – CD player reviews for 2026. The Shanling SCD3.3 is a top-loading CD/SACD player that folds in some very basic USB drive file playback. It asks ...
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Germany’s TIDAL (pronounced β€˜Tea-darl’) has announced the Piano Classic, a passive floorstander it describes as a reinterpretation of the very first loudspeaker it built back in 1999. Pitched as 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 ...
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 ...
🎡 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video – and other videos – can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko ...