The internal DAC – whose circuit is built around an unspecified chip and juiced by a dedicated power supply – can be fed from the rear via coaxial (24bit/192kHz), TOSLINK (24bit/192kHz) and the now ...

The CD80 II is a headphone-focussed CD player with 3.5mm and balanced 4.4mm sockets on the front panel to respectively offer 215mW and 850mW into 32 Ohms. Output impedance on both sockets is less than ...

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This week, we’ve been looking at the FiiO K11 R2R DAC and headphone amplifier — a proper hi-fi bargain if ever I’ve used one and, therefore, a DAR-KO Award winner. Here are five more thoughts on the ...

The K11 R2R has three digital inputs on its back panel: USB-C, TOSLINK and coaxial. I connected it to a MacBook Pro via USB ...

Rhino’s Super Deluxe reissue treatment of Talking Heads’ catalogue continued last Friday with the release of a new 2LP version of the band’s second album, the Brian Eno-produced More Songs About ...

One solution is to block sounds before they hit our room’s naked surfaces – the walls and the ceiling – with physical ...

One thing that I don’t think I made clear enough in my video was that the Michi Q5 is a CD player in addition to being a CD ...

A video for normal people.Wired or wireless? Campfire Axion vs. Apple AirPods Pro 2 by John Darko July 10, 2025, 12:49 ...

You know this story because we’ve told it a thousand times before: you visit a hi-fi show to find room after room playing the same old same old: Boz Scaggs, Diana Krall, The Dave Clark Five, Rebecca ...