Plenty of those records sounded terrific, but buyers felt short-changed anyway and a class action lawsuit followed. Which ...

I can’t think of another hi-fi manufacturer that puts out new products at anything like FiiO’s rate. In 2026, that rate has ...

Rhino has announced a super deluxe edition of Talking Heads’ Fear of Music. It comes in two flavours: a 3CD/Blu-ray set and a ...

Sometimes you wait weeks for an interesting reissue, and then three turn up at once, a bit like buses. On Sunday we covered the super deluxe treatment of Talking Heads’ Fear of Music and R.E.M.’s 25th ...

Magico has rebuilt its least expensive floorstanding loudspeaker. The A3 2027 lands nine years after the original A3, a model the Californian company says has brought more listeners into the Magico ...

Two months with the Bowers & Wilkins 804 D5, and this 3-way floorstander surprised me in three different ways. At €18,000/US$25,000 per pair, that’s not a claim I make lightly. The 804 D5 doesn’t ...

Hi-fi prices only ever seem to travel in one direction, so a new DAC arriving at US$100 less than the model it replaces is unusual enough to lead with. Schiit Audio has announced Bifrost 3. It keeps ...

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 ...

UMe has added The Velvet Underground’s 1969 self-titled third album to its Vinylphyle series of all-analogue reissues. The wrinkle? This edition is cut from Lou Reed’s “Closet Mix” and – as far as I ...

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