The Chord Alto landed in Berlin last week. It’s a headphone and loudspeaker amplifier born from Chord’s professional audio division, originally destined for studio engineers who need to monitor mixes ...

Arcam is back in the loudspeaker game. The Radia Series brings six models to the table: two standmounts, two floorstanders, a centre channel and an active subwoofer. All five passive models get a ...

The Singapore-based company behind the well-received Harmony DAC has unveiled a new product line. The Crescendo series sits ...

The FiiO Warmer R2R DAC serves up three stems of audiophile catnip for €379/US$349: tubes, resistor ladders and analogue VU ...

Chord Electronics has offered a first ‘glimpse’ of two forthcoming flagship products: the Quartet digital upscaler and the ULTIMA PHONOSTAGE. Neither has received a formal launch date or pricing, but ...

Shanling’s Onix subbrand / OEM rounds out its three-quarter-width Zenith lineup with the XMT20 – a streaming transport that ...

Roksan has added two new components to its Caspian Series 4G lineup: a streaming pre-amplifier and a power amplifier. The ...

Audeze has quietly dropped a successor to its LCD-5 flagship headphone. The LCD-5s made its debut at NAMM 2026, bringing the ...

Pro-Ject has announced the Pre Box S3, a pre-amplifier designed to serve as the central hub of a modern (and potentially compact) hi-fi system. The Austrian company, better known for its turntables, ...

Room acoustics sit at the very top of my audio improvement hierarchy. Above loudspeakers. Above loudspeaker placement. Above amplification. Above source components. Above everything else. A €500 pair ...