The first Darko.Audio review to be conducted across two locations and two acoustically-treated listening rooms.

The BTR 17 also features a dedicated ‘D.Mode’ (read: desktop mode) which permits the slipstreaming of power from an external ...

The Super Linton borrows the Linton’s 20cm woven Kevlar bass driver but its more powerful motor system and increased magnet strength promise improved attack and slam. In tandem with a cabinet that’s ...

When Marantz unveiled the MODEL 10 last month, the supplied photos didn’t make it obvious that this new ‘reference integrated amplifier’ would be something of an audio behemoth. It measures 44cm ...

Those with local NAS drives can feed content to the Shanling box over Samba or UPnP. The press release makes zero mention of Roon Ready. Already have a streaming source? The SM1.3’s USB (768kHz, ...

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

Good, better, best. It’s a marketing strategy as old as stereo sound. We’ve already seen Eversolo’s ‘good’: the DMP-A6 was 2023’s runaway hit (review here and here). Later that year came the DMP-A8, ...

Uncompromised; Masterpiece; Danish — three words that leap from the page of Buchardt’s latest press announcement. The E50 is a new passive standmount loudspeaker that marries a 1″ custom Scanspeak ...

In this episode of the Darko.Audio podcast, Srajan Ebaen and I go deeper than the press release would otherwise allow into six new products landing in the head-fi and hi-fi spaces. I cover the OJAS x ...

We normally talk about hi-fi gear on these pages but today I want to discuss the furniture used to arrange and display that hi-fi gear. I’ve got three everyman hi-fi furniture suggestions, two of ...