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Schiit Audio has announced the Lyr 5, a desktop headphone amplifier that combines tube and solid-state gain in a single ...

New models that, according to Rotel, draw on circuit topology and power supply approaches established in the Reference line.

Apple today announced the AirPods Max 2, the long-overdue successor to its 2020 premium over-ear headphones. Five and a half years is a long time between proper updates in consumer electronics. The ...

By early 1986, seven years on from The Cure’s second single, he had good reason to revisit it. “Boys Don’t Cry” had failed to ...

The S400 has been a fixture of Buchardt Audio’s passive loudspeaker line-up since its prototype debut in 2016. Nine years on, the Danish direct-sale company has announced the S400 MK3 – a ...

Not every record I own is an audiophile pressing. Not everything that I stream has outstanding dynamic range. Not every CD I own is the original master. The Rotel Michi X3 Series 2 doesn’t punish me ...

This is the twelfth in a series of fifteen observations from fifteen years of audio writing] YouTube is the number one driver of new people into hi-fi and head-fi. Not audio shows. Not magazine ...

How expensive is too expensive for a pair of loudspeakers? I filed the results away and moved on. Now, sitting in a room fitted out with as much acoustic treatment as the space permits, thinking ...