Cayin’s German distributor has this week announced the RU9, a portable DAC and headphone amplifier designed for smartphones, ...

Suzi — not Quatro, but a new mini-modular amplifier system from Chord Electronics for smaller listening spaces, high efficiency loudspeakers and desktops. We first saw Suzi at Munich High-End in 2024, ...

Cambridge Audio has announced the MXW70 power amplifier. This new half-width (215mm) box is designed to be paired with the similarly half-width MXN10 network streamer (reviewed here) or DACMagic 200 ...

This episode of the Darko.Audio podcast with 6moons’ Srajan Ebaen is audio only, no YouTube. Why? Because the subject matter is what we might call ‘inside baseball’: Srajan and I pull apart the hi-fi ...

The DX5 II is a new DAC, headphone amplifier and pre-amplifier from Topping. Three hard-wired digital inputs (USB, coaxial and TOSLINK) on the back panel – plus Bluetooth – feed three headphone ...

A hi-fi show demo is like a baked cake. The ingredients are fixed – loudspeakers, amplifier, DAC and streaming source – and ...

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