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 ...

PSB first showed the Alpha iQ – a streaming active loudspeaker built around the BluOS platform – back in 2023. The Canadian company has now spun that single product into two new streaming active ...

Shanling’s top-tier R2R conversion has so far only lived inside boxes that do other things. It debuted in the SCD3.3 SACD player alongside a tube buffer and turned up again in the SM1.3R streamer. The ...

UPDATE March 2019: this article has been updated and expanded here. ATTN: Bluetooth beginners. Did you receive a nice pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones for Christmas? Has the manufacturer made a ...

In a recent video, I said that I didn’t see the utility of multi-room streaming for smaller apartments; that if I wanted to hear music while I was upstairs in my 80sqm one-bedroom duplex, I’d simply ...

Scary Monsters. And super creeps. David Bowie. And Robert Fripp. Listen intently to the album on a decent hi-fi system and you’ll not miss the King Crimson founder’s “Applied Frippertronics”: guitar ...

The Line Magnetic 845iA (£3999/US$4895/€3999) is an integrated amplifier with three line-level RCA inputs and a low-ish power output. Even to seasoned audiophiles, 22wpc into 8 Ohms won’t sound like ...

Apple AirPlay comes with a hidden gotcha. Not the “stream-must-travel-through-the-iPhone” gotcha. That’s well known. I’m talking about a different, less obvious gotcha. Awwwwww. What follows is based ...

The Eversolo PLAY CD Edition costs €799, adding a Hitachi CD drive to the standard €699 model. That puts even the base PLAY at €100 more than WiiM’s AMP Ultra (€599). After six weeks of side-by-side ...

Eversolo is a name that’s been hard to miss this year. Despite offering just a handful of products thus far, rave reviews and highly positive forum discussions about the brand seem almost unavoidable.

How do you follow up on a massively successful product? That was the conundrum faced by China’s Zidoo in the wake of the runaway success of its Eversolo-branded DMP-A6: a streaming DAC which many ...

Looking for the ALLO DigiOne Signature? Find that review here. HATS. Not The Blue Nile’s sophomore LP but that given by Raspberry Pi to add on-boards for their small-board computer (SBC). A HAT ...