HiFi News

I (re)joined John Darko of Darko.Audio for some podcast time, this time around we shoot the breeze about Apple Music’s lossy, lossless, and hi-res lossless, CDs, dinner at Le Bernardin, and more.

Equal rights. Justice. A few weeks ago, I pointed readers to a relatively new YouTube hifi reviewer, GoldenSound. The subject of his most popular video, by a multiple of around 15x, was MQA. Spoiler Alert: it was not a positive take.

Network audiophiles have been using fiber media converters for years. Companies like TP-Link offer a number of options in the $20/each price range that do the job just fine. But, what’s the job?

The Bluesound Node 2i is a genuine HiFi Bargain, nearly a classic, so I am very happy to see it getting some renewed attention.

95 years. That’s nearly 1,000 years in hifi time.

Did you ever wish there was a source for measurements, listening impressions, and how the two may converge? And one that was absent of extremist views that tilt so heavily in one direction, it discounts the validity of the other? Well, it looks like there’s […]

Who put analog in my digital? Auralic’s new ALTAIR G2.1 Digital Audio Streamer adds two all-analog inputs, from input to output, including a Moving Magnet Phono input! making for one full-featured Streaming DAC/Preamplifier plus.

I can already hear the rumbling of angry bits-R-bits believers. Damn you, JitterBug!

Rats! Dang it! Goshdarnit!

The d100 are a 2.5 way design, housing a pair of 12″ bass/midrange drivers paired with a 1 inch compression driver which kicks in above 3.5kHz. Designed to be an easy load to drive, the d100 offers amplifiers a friendly 98db efficiency (@ 1m @ […]

Effortlessness.

I’m a fan of the all-in-one, especially when the one is good looking.

That’s right, that THX. The Onyx is the company’s first consumer electronics device and it joins a spate of recently revealed, and reviewed, dongle DACs.

Internet radio host Radio Paradise will start streaming hi-res MQA content through BluOS devices come April 2021.